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Dear spreadsheet admins, ECAS shows Decision Made today. Please updated the spreadsheet, line 175. Thank you for your hard work!

That is exciting to have your oath on Canada Day! They generally do more fun ceremonies on Canada day.

Hello folks, I posted my experience from today on this thread. https://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/threads/citizenship-interviews-tips-recent-experiencess-and-impressions.506310/page-7#post-6986670

Hello folks, I thought I should share my experience of the test and interview that I had in Calgary. For reference, I applied in November 2017, with 1233 days of physical presence. I also have a ridiculous number of absences - approx. 600 days over 80 trips - mostly due to business trips, and I...

Dear spreadsheet admins, please update my line on the November 2017 sheet, line 266. Test invite letter: May 2, 2018 Test interview date: June 5, 2018 Thank you for your hard work!

Looking to see if someone has has experience with this. From reading about the process to "re-issue" an Indian passport, the BLS website says that the processing time out of CGI Vancouver is 2 months if the original passport was issued in India or another mission. Has anyone had experience...

Hello yelllow, thought I could be another data point for you to complement the information that ladybug8888 shared. Rent 2br+1bath apartment (SW or NW, 20 min by car / 40-50 min by public transport from downtown), some moderate place, no shining luxury :); do we need to pay anything except the...

Hello happymama2, I see you posted this early February so I'm not sure that you got the answers to your questions. Have you figured out what you're doing for accommodation? Typically landlords are looking to see that you have a stable income to be able to pay your rent. So having even a...

Dear spreadsheet admins, please update my line on the November 2017 sheet, line 245. In process ecas: February 12, 2018 Thank you!

Spreadsheet admin - please add my update. Thank you! AOR received - January 19.

Please add me to the spreadsheet.. thank you! username: avro1959 Location: Calgary Application type: single Physical presence days: 1233 Application sent: Nov 20, 2017 Application delivered: Nov 24, 2017

Posted my application on Monday Nov 20th using Canada Post. I insisted on expresspost but the person said it was best to send it by priority instead. Took 4 biz days to arrive in sydney! It’s quite a long time, i’m not sure if other people have had similar experiences with canada post. Here’s...

Dear spreadsheet admins, please add me to the spreadsheet. Thank you for your hard work!! username: avro1959 Location: Calgary Application type: single Physical presence days: 1233 Application sent: Nov 20, 2017 Application delivered: Nov 24, 2017

screech339 has brought up this point several times, and I can't get my head around it. How is it possible to live on social assistance for years? EI only lasts for a year approximately, and the social welfare amounts provided afterwards are paltry. You'd barely survive with those amounts. I'm...

taffytoffy, this is extremely helpful, thank you for going through the effort of documenting the process!! I expect I will be submitting my citizenship application in the next few months. In terms of processing time, you mentioned in your blog post that the Criminal Records Check Reply is...

I'm in Calgary.

Spreadsheet update: Decision made: April 27, 2016 CoPR in post: May 4, 2016 This was a surprise, I was expecting the application to take another 7-8 months to process. What seems strange is that they previously told us the application was sent to LVO but the CoPR we received now shows that it...

Spreadsheet update: AOR - March 12 Sponsor approval - March 15 Processing office - London In process on ECAS - March 16 To the editors of the spreadsheet, thank you for your hard work!!

Hello folks, thank you very much for the great info and for the maintenance of the spreadsheet. I just applied to sponsor my wife. Here are our details to add to the spreadsheet: Meds done: 19 March 2015 Application sent to Mississauga: 20 Jan 2016 Application received in Mississauga: 21 Jan...

Hi all, My wife is an Irish citizen. She entered Canada yesterday with all of the documents required to activate her working holiday visa, however the officer gave her a work permit for one year only. We were pretty sure that Irish citizens get a two year work permit, but the officer insisted...