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Citizenship application - URGENT Request during COVID-19

TempResident

Star Member
May 16, 2016
182
95
Germany/Argentina
Everyone,

I applied for Citizenship on June 2020 and obviously have not received AOR yet given the backlog. I work in the Corporate Restructuring and Turnaround practice in Canada and the demand for these professionals in the United States have exploded. As a result, I am getting contacted by recruiters from reputable consulting firms in the U.S. to join the practice. They are willing to sponsor me but the catch is that I need my Canadian Citizenship to apply for a TN visa and move to the U.S while I await for my H1B visa. I am seriously considering to request IRCC to expedite my citizenship application, and in support attach all the recruiters requests for interviews, and statement letter explaining that although these times are unique, this is a great opportunity to expand my professional career in the U.S.

I'd like to point out that, before I moved to Canada in July 2016 as PR, I was living in the United States, I graduated with a degree in Finance but was unable to secure sponsorship at that time. So one of the reason why recruiters have interest in my profile is because I have a U.S. degree with professional U.S. and Canadian work experience.

What are your thoughts on this? Any suggestion?

Thanks!!
 

issteven

Hero Member
Jan 2, 2014
673
201
Ha, that won't work. I know at least 5 people having same situations as you and they are still waiting.

The only reason for urgent processing is that you got a Canadian government job offer or military job that requires Canadian citizenship.
 

scylla

VIP Member
Jun 8, 2010
96,548
22,620
Toronto
Category........
Visa Office......
Buffalo
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
28-05-2010
AOR Received.
19-08-2010
File Transfer...
28-06-2010
Passport Req..
01-10-2010
VISA ISSUED...
05-10-2010
LANDED..........
05-10-2010
Everyone,

I applied for Citizenship on June 2020 and obviously have not received AOR yet given the backlog. I work in the Corporate Restructuring and Turnaround practice in Canada and the demand for these professionals in the United States have exploded. As a result, I am getting contacted by recruiters from reputable consulting firms in the U.S. to join the practice. They are willing to sponsor me but the catch is that I need my Canadian Citizenship to apply for a TN visa and move to the U.S while I await for my H1B visa. I am seriously considering to request IRCC to expedite my citizenship application, and in support attach all the recruiters requests for interviews, and statement letter explaining that although these times are unique, this is a great opportunity to expand my professional career in the U.S.

I'd like to point out that, before I moved to Canada in July 2016 as PR, I was living in the United States, I graduated with a degree in Finance but was unable to secure sponsorship at that time. So one of the reason why recruiters have interest in my profile is because I have a U.S. degree with professional U.S. and Canadian work experience.

What are your thoughts on this? Any suggestion?

Thanks!!
IRCC won't expedite for this reason. See if any of these companies will allow you to work remotely from Canada and then support a transfer to the U.S. once you have citizenship.
 

yasir22

Hero Member
Jun 5, 2014
716
177
ontario
Visa Office......
London
App. Filed.......
21-05-2014
Doc's Request.
29-04-2015
File Transfer...
SA on 30-07-2014
Med's Request
19-05-2015
Med's Done....
upfront med.: 7-04-2014 and re-med.: 21-05-2015
Interview........
Waived !!
Passport Req..
DM on 2-06-2015, PPR on 05-06-2015
VISA ISSUED...
Visa issued: 02-07-2015, Received: 07-07-2015
LANDED..........
January 2016
So you are going to request them to expedite your process so that you can leave Canada and go and work in USA???? Not gonna work.
 

harirajmohan

VIP Member
Mar 3, 2015
6,163
1,668
Category........
Visa Office......
Sydney, NS
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
29-May-2015
Doc's Request.
30-Dec-2015 ReminderEmail(PCCs, NewPassport via cse 31-Dec-2015)
Nomination.....
SK 22-Apr-2015
AOR Received.
11-Aug-2015
Med's Request
23-Dec-2015
Med's Done....
20-Jan-2016
Passport Req..
26-May-2016 (BGC In Progress 25-May-2016)
VISA ISSUED...
PP Reached Ottawa:27-May-2016, Received:10-Jun-2016
LANDED..........
PR: 09-Jul-2016, PR Card: 17-Aug-2016
Everyone,

I applied for Citizenship on June 2020 and obviously have not received AOR yet given the backlog. I work in the Corporate Restructuring and Turnaround practice in Canada and the demand for these professionals in the United States have exploded. As a result, I am getting contacted by recruiters from reputable consulting firms in the U.S. to join the practice. They are willing to sponsor me but the catch is that I need my Canadian Citizenship to apply for a TN visa and move to the U.S while I await for my H1B visa. I am seriously considering to request IRCC to expedite my citizenship application, and in support attach all the recruiters requests for interviews, and statement letter explaining that although these times are unique, this is a great opportunity to expand my professional career in the U.S.

I'd like to point out that, before I moved to Canada in July 2016 as PR, I was living in the United States, I graduated with a degree in Finance but was unable to secure sponsorship at that time. So one of the reason why recruiters have interest in my profile is because I have a U.S. degree with professional U.S. and Canadian work experience.

What are your thoughts on this? Any suggestion?

Thanks!!
Canadian PR you received is based on economic benefit for Canada. Even for its benefit you did not receive expedited processing of PR. Now, to work for some other country, you certainly cant expect Canada to help expedite citizenship application(which would help some other country for your need).

H1: If you are waiting for H1 then why there is an issue now. Are you not cap exempt or not selected in h1 quota?

TN visa has the least/tiny job codes while comparing to H1. Yes if you dont get H1 then TN is the easy option(if the job code is listed for TN).
 
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s23srinivas

Hero Member
Jul 27, 2015
410
136
Everyone,

I applied for Citizenship on June 2020 and obviously have not received AOR yet given the backlog. I work in the Corporate Restructuring and Turnaround practice in Canada and the demand for these professionals in the United States have exploded. As a result, I am getting contacted by recruiters from reputable consulting firms in the U.S. to join the practice. They are willing to sponsor me but the catch is that I need my Canadian Citizenship to apply for a TN visa and move to the U.S while I await for my H1B visa. I am seriously considering to request IRCC to expedite my citizenship application, and in support attach all the recruiters requests for interviews, and statement letter explaining that although these times are unique, this is a great opportunity to expand my professional career in the U.S.

I'd like to point out that, before I moved to Canada in July 2016 as PR, I was living in the United States, I graduated with a degree in Finance but was unable to secure sponsorship at that time. So one of the reason why recruiters have interest in my profile is because I have a U.S. degree with professional U.S. and Canadian work experience.

What are your thoughts on this? Any suggestion?

Thanks!!
Go ahead and ask for an expedited service. If you get it then great else what's the harm?
 

ott-613

Hero Member
Dec 16, 2019
377
175
Everyone,

I applied for Citizenship on June 2020 and obviously have not received AOR yet given the backlog. I work in the Corporate Restructuring and Turnaround practice in Canada and the demand for these professionals in the United States have exploded. As a result, I am getting contacted by recruiters from reputable consulting firms in the U.S. to join the practice. They are willing to sponsor me but the catch is that I need my Canadian Citizenship to apply for a TN visa and move to the U.S while I await for my H1B visa. I am seriously considering to request IRCC to expedite my citizenship application, and in support attach all the recruiters requests for interviews, and statement letter explaining that although these times are unique, this is a great opportunity to expand my professional career in the U.S.

I'd like to point out that, before I moved to Canada in July 2016 as PR, I was living in the United States, I graduated with a degree in Finance but was unable to secure sponsorship at that time. So one of the reason why recruiters have interest in my profile is because I have a U.S. degree with professional U.S. and Canadian work experience.

What are your thoughts on this? Any suggestion?

Thanks!!
Ask an immigration lawyer, in the cic website they state urgent requests could be such case where you could loose job, not sure about losing a new opportunity though.
 

limits

Hero Member
May 13, 2015
209
48
Won't work, the criteria for applying for urgent processing is quite clear and you don't meet it. In fact, it could backfire in your face and get you an RQ. Ask the company to hire you as a remote contractor until they begin processing H1Bs.