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Citizenship application - URGENT Request during COVID-19

TempResident

TempResident

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May 16, 2016
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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!!
 
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.
 
TempResident said:
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!!
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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.
 
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.
 
TempResident said:
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!!
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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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TempResident said:
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!!
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Go ahead and ask for an expedited service. If you get it then great else what's the harm?
 
TempResident said:
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!!
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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.
 
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.
 
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