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100% agree. I too now know more than 80% of my colleagues about Canadian history. If you only do prepare by the various online tests you will most likely pass but have no chance for a perfect score! There's a few tricky questions you only learn by the study guide. Test yourself: What is the...

If your son is not living with you any longer and even is living in another province I would separate the file. Don't move to St. Clair, this office is known for it's lengthy processing... Mike

Seldom, you can only tell the truth and only than can you sleep restful! The interviewers have the advantage that they hear all kind of stories almost every day. They can 'feel' if you try to hide something. If you tell the truth, even if it is a strange one, it is perceived honest in...

Everything has been said before... Read the study book, read it twice, a third time, read between the lines... Don't just rely on the online tests available! Read the picture notes in the study book. I had no questions about Canadian history among my questions, that would have been my strong...

I was at the test last week and during the interview he looked through all my passports and searched for every individual stamp to match them with my application and had a lot of questions why I was 3 times (!) a year in the US and whether I was more often in the US w/o happen to have the...

If your kids do not live in Canada and don't have valid PR they cannot get citizenship. They first have to become PR before you can apply for citizenship for them. So, no matter if you provide the records or not they won't get citizenship! Mike

I don't think you need school records. If he's not in Canada, he does not qualify. You can only sponsor him later. The reason CIC asks for school records is exactly this, to see if he resides in Canada. Does he have Canadian PR status? If not, he does not qualify by default. Did you include him...

Which reflects the three departments involved in the process. The 'pre-test checking', the interviewer on test day and finally the citizenship judge. Either one of them not satisfied with your status. Mike

Very good chance you get a RQ. Don't cheat when you count your days, at the latest they will discover your trips during the interview prior to test. You'll get the RQ than just prior to test. Mike

... Sorry for my sarcasm. Mike

It's a savings measure, the hotline has been disabled... Check ECAS instead, it'll be updated on a regular basis every 6 months. Mike

The reason for this is clear, a foreign federal public administration (e.g. an embassy) is usually treated as Canadian soil, so are armed force bases as well as embassies, they are in the jurisdiction of the country they represent. Mike

I think it should go back all the way to the date your WP was approved. Even if your original intend was a short assignment only, in the meantime you became PR, moved your center of living and showed your desire to work and live in Canada. I never understood the half days anyway, if it would...

The requirements for citizenship and PR are quite different. As long as you fulfill PR requirement you should be fine. You might get questions when you try to renew your PR card. But you don't need to renew your PR card if you don't leave Canada as long as you entered it with a valid one. You...

Business trips outside Canada while working for a Canadian company count against PR requirement but not citizenship, as mentioned above. I was working on work visa in US prior to relocation to Canada, so were two of my colleagues. It didn't trigger a RQ for any of us. I think it depends on the...

Don't know when Kingston office got closed. I guess sometime 2011. One colleague got PR in 2010 and was dealing with Kingston. None of us received RQ. Mike

There are documented cases that this is possible. It mustn't for suspicious reasons it can be for purely QA process health check. Unless the online status check doesn't reveal more details, nobody can tell. We are going through difficult challenging times, the fun is over... Mike

Get your parents certificates, originals (!), take you birth certificate, original -translated by an affiliated translator if it is in foreign language, go to the Canadian embassy -if you live abroad- or passport Canada (service Canada) if you are in Canada and apply for citizenship certificate...

I our case, me + 2 colleagues it was 12+ months. Don't know exactly; at one time Kingston office got closed and we were transferred. From process started to test it took 13 months, from AOL to process started 8, 21 in total to take the test. Add x months till oath... Mike

I assume you sponsor your husband for PR. The requirement is, that you are able to support him, means be able to pay for all his expenses in Canada, incl. health for first three months. CIC has access to your T4s and your Canadian tax return (I assume you filed one). So, since you are not...