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The extra budget was for getting more new refugees and immigrants faster, not for citizenship processing. Actually the citizenship business of CIC is the lowest priority and least important of all. Here is the budget and resources planning for the citizenship processing in the next few years...

It appears the slowness started from February/March and getting worse and worse into April/May. The backlog is building up very quickly right now. The most applicants who got caught and delayed by C-24 since June 2015 became eligible from this February (as it's the first tax filling season one...

Actually one can also request information from CSIS under ATIP: https://www.csis.gc.ca/tp/index-en.php Under The Privacy Act, they should respond in 30 days.

CSIS clearance is only valid for 4 years, so the one you got during PR application should have expired. That's why a new one is required. Have you tried to contact CSIS to find out the status of your clearance? Here is how: https://www.csis.gc.ca/scrtscrnng/index-en.php

There are two types of clearances, one is criminality clearance (RCMP), in my case it took just one day to pass (the date that ECAS changed to IP from AOR). Another one is security clearance (CSIS), since it's hidden in ATIP report, no body can see the status. But CSIS can provide status...

I don't think it's the procedure for local office to wait for security clearance before scheduling test. I'v seen plenty of people even still waiting for security clearance after completing test.

Ordered GCMS notes for my case by ATIP, a few observations: File was delivered in Feb, CPC-Sydney opened the file 2 weeks later, first step was to manually type all the information from the application form into GCMS, they spent about half hour to do so and there were three errors, misspelling...

You are so right, they never consider themselves as government service provider and we are their customers. Imagine if you are applying driving license, you are just given a fixed date for test and even you have a wedding or funeral to attend on the same day but you have to obey it with no...

It's not true. All residents have the same rights to demonstrate no matter citizen status. In fact, back in the UK, there were a few cases different groups of immigrants demonstrated in front of parliament, even had celebrity or high profile politician as speaker person, had a lot of media...

I just saw the CBC news that transgender were gather in front of parliament in Ottawa to demonstrate and ask parliament to pass C-16 as soon as possible and got a lot of media exposure. Then the parliament responded the bill could be passed before summer break. C-6 definitely impacts much more...

Basically C-24 delayed many new applicants for at least a year since June 2015, so CIC used that window to clear the old backlog. The second half of 2016 was a golden age in CIC history without backlog and with minimal new applications. Now all those delayed new applicants are starting to flood...

It appears the slowness started from February/March and getting worse and worse into April/May. The backlog is building up very quickly right now. The most applicants who got caught and delayed by C-24 since June 2015 became eligible from this February (as it's the first tax filling season one...

The more worrisome thing is most March applicants from Calgary have got invites and most January applicants from Calgary have already had decision made. It appears the progress is not correlated with the order of receipt and the February applicants from Calgary have been singled out and...

Britain is a special case, unlike many other countries, it does not have its own Constitution, everything is flexible, but when Britain joined EU, the EU convention and court became the defacto Constitution which any amendments require all member states ratification and at least 10 years to...

That is very odd. As result of making such mistake is very serious, I'm so surprised there are no warning words on German passport. I know on British passport's notes page, it clearly says dual citizenship is recognized, but the holder won't be protected against the other country, and the...

I guess that guy didn't know about the German law and acquired Canadian citizenship without realizing he already lost his German citizenship automatically and only found out when he needed some German citizen services at the consulate. I wonder if there are any warning words about this on the...

According to German law, one must apply for permission from German authority to maintain German citizenship before acquiring Canadian citizenship, otherwise they will automatically lose their German citizenship. But I'm curious to know what's the criteria to grant such permission? But I doubt...

A right that is from the Bill of Rights which is a statutory right that can be subject to amend by any future government easily, not a constitution right that can last for one's lifetime or the country's lifetime, like in many other civilized countries. Remember in Canada's history, thousands...

So shame it's finally ruled that Canadian citizenship is just like a golf club membership, you need to earn it and maintain it yet the club can still change the terms and conditions or end your membership anytime. In many civilized countries, citizenship is established and protected by the...

My point is both Citizenship Act and Bill of Rights are not part of Canadian Constitution so government can easily change them (like who can be citizens and who has what rights) following the normal legislation process not the constitutional amendment process. In theory, if there will be a...