Anyone successfully got AOR while using visitor days in the physical presence calculation?

[menaka_p]

I should’ve known IRCC wouldn’t be the most straightforward department to deal with. I applied for my citizenship online this month and included my visitor visa days to meet the physical presence requirement. People who applied around the same time as me have already started receiving their AORs, but I haven’t.

After going down a rabbit hole, I realized that IRCC returns applications where visitor visa days are used to calculate physical presence. Now, I’m wondering - does this always happen? Should I start working on a letter of explanation with all the relevant details, or have people successfully received their AOR without their application being returned?

I’m especially interested in hearing from those who came to Canada on a visitor visa and later became PRs through spousal sponsorship. Is my application likely to be returned?

 

[scylla]

I should’ve known IRCC wouldn’t be the most straightforward department to deal with. I applied for my citizenship online this month and included my visitor visa days to meet the physical presence requirement. People who applied around the same time as me have already started receiving their AORs, but I haven’t.

After going down a rabbit hole, I realized that IRCC returns applications where visitor visa days are used to calculate physical presence. Now, I’m wondering - does this always happen? Should I start working on a letter of explanation with all the relevant details, or have people successfully received their AOR without their application being returned?

I’m especially interested in hearing from those who came to Canada on a visitor visa and later became PRs through spousal sponsorship. Is my application likely to be returned?

Tons of people here have used days as visitors without issue and without delay and without having applications returned.

IMO people sometimes run into issues trying to use days where they had implied status. I believe that's where the complication sometimes comes in. But wait for others to respond.

 

[MJSPARV]

I had some visitor days and got AOR quite quickly. But I had like 36 visitor days and almost 1200 days as a pr so I wasn’t really relying on those days - I only included them because they were within the 5 year eligibility period so I had to include them.

 

[MJSPARV]

Also if IRCC didn’t want to deal with applications with visitor days then… they just wouldn’t count visitor days. So I don’t think you need to worry that using the visitor days that they clearly accept is going to screw up you getting AOR.

There’s going to be variance in how fast people get AOR so don’t worry that people who applied around the same time as you have **started** to get AOR and you haven’t.