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Citizenship interview got stressed

umairfood1 said:
I m housewife with 3 kids 6, 5 and 2. Both elder ones are going school. My husband is back home since 1.5 years to wind his job issues and some family assignments there. I had citizenship test with 16 marks last week but in interview she asked questions. Like y my husband is out of country for so long and y I visited back home for 5 months with kids after applying for citizenship. I told the truth. She even asked that will u leave Canada after Passport I told never as that is not my intention. Then she told me that u got 16 marks and wait for our letter or email. I m stressed that what could happen?
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Which location is this?
 
I don't understand the question about intention to leave canada after getting the passport ? Even if the answer is yes ... is it something they can deny the citizenship because of ?
 
imm_leb_01 said:
I don't understand the question about intention to leave canada after getting the passport ? Even if the answer is yes ... is it something they can deny the citizenship because of ?
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They can't deny the grant of citizenship of course, now that the law has changed. They are most likely trying to get a reaction from you, in order to see if you're telling the truth about this question, and other stuff they ask you. There's a chance the officer has not been trained properly with the new rules, but that's highly unlikely... It could also be the officer is jealous you finally get to leave after getting the passport :D

In job interviews, some people recite/memorize their answers beforehand to common questions, and the interviewers don't want that, so they ask uncomfortable/unexpected questions to throw you off... CIC officers are doing the same sometimes. I wouldn't consider this tactic insulting, offensive or even unfriendly. It's just one of the ways to get wanted info.
 
he is not jealous he has legitimate worries and that are people abusing the system getting the most powerful passport in the world and going to places where their passports dont allow them to enter.
 
The officer might have genuine reasons to ask questions like - will you leave Canada after getting citizenship? Or expressing concern by saying - you have been out of Canada for a long time... even if you have met the minimum residency requirement and mentioned the reason of your absences in the application. I just feel that some questions are not going to get the honest replies like no one is going to say yes I will leave right after the citizenship or no one can predict their future as to whether they will have an emergency to see their loved ones in other country and these days everyone travels for business or family or tourism purposes. May be they should rather enforce rules for minimum residency after getting citizenship. Also they should screen every applicant the same instead of picking at random for extra scrutiny. I noticed on this forum there are applicants with continuous residency and job in Canada and still their application is slow processing. Saying that each case is different does not make sense in all the cases. The officers too are humans like us and have different level of skills and competency and they too make mistakes and incorrect judgements just like any regular employees. Not taking any thing personally or hate the officers but it does cause frustration when there is no good reason for it.
 
Jfk20101 said:
he is not jealous he has legitimate worries and that are people abusing the system getting the most powerful passport in the world and going to places where their passports dont allow them to enter.
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Canada Rank 6th. May be the most easiest country to get social assistance and go back to the country where you had death threat right after getting passport.
 
saini01 said:
The officer might have genuine reasons to ask questions like - will you leave Canada after getting citizenship? Or expressing concern by saying - you have been out of Canada for a long time... even if you have met the minimum residency requirement and mentioned the reason of your absences in the application. I just feel that some questions are not going to get the honest replies like no one is going to say yes I will leave right after the citizenship or no one can predict their future as to whether they will have an emergency to see their loved ones in other country and these days everyone travels for business or family or tourism purposes. May be they should rather enforce rules for minimum residency after getting citizenship. Also they should screen every applicant the same instead of picking at random for extra scrutiny. I noticed on this forum there are applicants with continuous residency and job in Canada and still their application is slow processing. Saying that each case is different does not make sense in all the cases. The officers too are humans like us and have different level of skills and competency and they too make mistakes and incorrect judgements just like any regular employees. Not taking any thing personally or hate the officers but it does cause frustration when there is no good reason for it.
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What's the point of this minimum residency after citizenship. What if the purpose one wants the Citizenship in the first place is to get the passport to travel the world?
 
Jfk20101 said:
he is not jealous he has legitimate worries and that are people abusing the system getting the most powerful passport in the world and going to places where their passports dont allow them to enter.
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I was kinda joking about being jealous, you know. If the officer is jealous about this, he/she is not being professional. Being professional also means knowing the law has changed and there's no "intention to reside" requirement any more. I still think they're well trained enough to know this, and questions about leaving after getting citizenship are solely meant to rattle you. Whatever you answer is meaningless to your citizenship application. The only thing you DON'T want to do is to make up a story trying to convince them you'll stay. If they suspect you lie about this, they'll suspect you lied about other things in the application, which might actually matter.

In the OP's case, she has an uncommon situation where the husband remains overseas and she lives in Canada with the kids as a housewife. I believe the officer was trying to make sure she didn't live overseas with the husband for any part of the physical presence she claimed.
 
While it may be the case that the officer is using some kind of investigatory technique to glean insight into an applicant's credibility by asking about residential intentions after citizenship, in the light of recent political history about this issue, I am not sure it is a question they should be asking as a matter of policy. It could easily be experienced as a form of intimidation that creates an appearance of unfairness contrary to the current law.
 
links18 said:
While it may be the case that the officer is using some kind of investigatory technique to glean insight into an applicant's credibility by asking about residential intentions after citizenship, in the light of recent political history about this issue, I am not sure it is a question they should be asking as a matter of policy. It could easily be experienced as a form of intimidation that creates an appearance of unfairness contrary to the current law.
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There could be many many reasons. Most of the people here disclose parts that don'y discriminate them. Husband living abroad and wife here living like single mom with kids without any income here. I personally know someone husband living outside calling them separated, collecting social assistance as single mom. Within separated time she became pregnant and father's name was separated husband. Husband not even disclosing a penny for taxes and back home rising their 11 storied home.
Couple were visiting home country at the same time and meeting everyone as husband and wife. Locker was invented after people learned about stealing.
 
jumon563 said:
There could be many many reasons. Most of the people here disclose parts that don'y discriminate them. Husband living abroad and wife here living like single mom with kids without any income here. I personally know someone husband living outside calling them separated, collecting social assistance as single mom. Within separated time she became pregnant and father's name was separated husband. Husband not even disclosing a penny for taxes and back home rising their 11 storied home.
Couple were visiting home country at the same time and meeting everyone as husband and wife. Locker was invented after people learned about stealing.
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OK, some people cheat the system. That's always been the case. My comment was more about the political insensitivity of asking about post-oath residency intentions given the recent debates. One has to ask if such a question is even material anymore given the elimination of the intent to reside clause? Or is it being used as some kind of "perjury trap"?
 
links18 said:
OK, some people cheat the system. That's always been the case. My comment was more about the political insensitivity of asking about post-oath residency intentions given the recent debates. One has to ask if such a question is even material anymore given the elimination of the intent to reside clause? Or is it being used as some kind of "perjury trap"?
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I get that. This is just a question even I ask to new canadian, are you going to leave now? If OP says yes I will leave canada after passport and because of this if she denied citizenship, then you can complain. In job interview some people ask how many kids you have. Do you think it's matter if someone has 2 or someone has 3 unless job requires no kids?
 
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