Applicants waiting for more than 2 years interested in Mandamus with a firm as a group meet here !!!
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Why waist even 800 dollars.doesnt worth it.some people stay on pr card,no need for citizinship, only exception is voting but who cares
Just sharing my experience with Abramovich & Tchern Immigration Lawyers
Our inland CEC PR application (inland) was stuck in limbo for nearly 3 years. So I decided to go for mandamus.
The firm just asked me few details about our application and subsequently submitted the mandamus.
In a matter of days, our app was looked into and was approved in exactly 30 days.
Our inland CEC PR application (inland) was stuck in limbo for nearly 3 years. So I decided to go for mandamus.
The firm just asked me few details about our application and subsequently submitted the mandamus.
In a matter of days, our app was looked into and was approved in exactly 30 days.
How much did it cost and also did you do both stage? Or expedite option?
~CAD 1,800 for the 1st stage. Lawyer will submit the notice of application to the federal court. This step initiates your Application for Leave and Judicial Review (“ALJR”) at the Federal Court, seeking a writ of mandamus against IRCC.
IRCC will subsequently produce a letter indicating that your immigration application is still being processing and that there is no decision or reasons with respect to it (the “No Reasons Letter”). The issuance of the No Reasons Letter is a standard procedural step which my lawyer did not need to respond to.
You have 30 days from the receipt of the No Reasons Letter to perfect the ALJR by filing the Application Record. This is the 2nd stage and it is quite costly because they charge you by the hours they spent on this.
You just need to have faith with IRCC that they process or make a decision within 30 days after the notice of application is submitted.
We were just fortunate that IRCC approved our PR app in exactly 30 days. So we did not need to proceed with stage 2.
Hope this helps everyone who are going through the same horrible experience. Hang in there. I'm sure you'll get it sooner than you think.
It is really unfortunate and unfair that some applicants have to spend thousands of dollars on lawyers' fees just to get their freaking citizenship while they have already fulfilled all the conditions and done their part.
20 plus years
It readily appears that waiting twenty years is enough to qualify for mandamus. See the May 2022 Federal Court decision in Sharafaldin v. Canada, 2022 FC 768, https://canlii.ca/t/jpgxw . . . Mr. Sharafaldin submitted an application for Canadian citizenship in 1999. Over twenty years later, as of May this year this application was still pending . . . but on May 27, 2022 a Federal Court finally ordered "the Minister shall promptly conclude Mr. Sharafaldin’s application for Canadian citizenship."
And, in that case, the FC justice also stated: "Nearly 15 years for the processing of a citizenship application is manifestly longer than the nature of the process required . . . "
Not sure one has to wait that long to have the government ordered to pay the applicant's attorney's fees, but at least in this case costs were awarded to Mr. Sharafaldin "in the lump sum, all-inclusive amount of $65,000." Apparently pursuing mandamus can get expensive, at least in some cases. For this order see Sharafaldin v. Canada, 2022 FC 997, https://canlii.ca/t/jqf7b
I suppose this is not the sort of case those who have been waiting two years are pleased to see.
It readily appears that waiting twenty years is enough to qualify for mandamus. See the May 2022 Federal Court decision in Sharafaldin v. Canada, 2022 FC 768, https://canlii.ca/t/jpgxw . . . Mr. Sharafaldin submitted an application for Canadian citizenship in 1999. Over twenty years later, as of May this year this application was still pending . . . but on May 27, 2022 a Federal Court finally ordered "the Minister shall promptly conclude Mr. Sharafaldin’s application for Canadian citizenship."
And, in that case, the FC justice also stated: "Nearly 15 years for the processing of a citizenship application is manifestly longer than the nature of the process required . . . "
Not sure one has to wait that long to have the government ordered to pay the applicant's attorney's fees, but at least in this case costs were awarded to Mr. Sharafaldin "in the lump sum, all-inclusive amount of $65,000." Apparently pursuing mandamus can get expensive, at least in some cases. For this order see Sharafaldin v. Canada, 2022 FC 997, https://canlii.ca/t/jqf7b
I suppose this is not the sort of case those who have been waiting two years are pleased to see.
If it was an interview it seems to happen once in a while. For example, if the interviewing officer cannot show up for work like sudden illness etc. It occasionally happens even for oath because of technical issues, they invited the wrong candidate, or absence of a key person in the oath etc. Don't have to worry or read too much into it. Just keep following up with them until you get a replacement appointment or see further movement in your application.
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