Many of us were (unfortunately falsely) enthusiastic about IRCC's recent announcement of the phased resumption of some services, in some offices.
I think unfortunately this annoucement is a delusion, here are my arguments:
- Regarding citizenship, the so-called '' gradual resume '' only concerns a center in Vancouver ... and it will be '' re-test '' (So it only concerns people who have already taken a test before the closure , and who failed ... For Vancouver area only)
Se the link :
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/notices/gradual-resumption-in-person-services-sep-2020.html
IRCC said:
Citizenship:
- Vancouver Expo will be reopening for limited citizenship-related services, including citizenship knowledge re-testing and citizenship hearings, for a select cohort of applicants, to test the flow and viability of client-facing services. IRCC will be scheduling appointments by email.
- As i sayed in other topics, the union of federal employees is very powerful, and will surely ask for the vaccine + a daily residual ratio of covid cases of zero, even after the vaccine ... This situation suits them. This situation + the power of their union + and of course the code 699. (An internal procedure that allows federal employees to continue to be paid without doing anything)
Those who are waiting for a test will have to wait years and years if they do not make noise, several simultaneous sittings in front of IRCC offices
, contact the local federal parliamentarians (no need if he is conservative, waste of time, you know lol ...), alert the press, etc ...
A general mobilization is required ... Unless waiting for severals years does not bother you... Wake up !
#Resume_Citizenship_Tests
The pilot program in Vancouver is, in my opinion, a trick to calm people down, and give false hope to win more time.
But in reality nothing is progressing, and citizenship remains
de facto interrupted, in fact.
Remember : According to the immigration and refugees act, there is no citizenship without testing.
The continuity of this blocking situation means in fact, for the candidates, an effective blocking, and an effective suspension of the citizenship procedure. Nothing else.
(* Exception made if you are over 55 = test exemption = interview and ceremony can be zoomed in, but this only concerns a very small portion of applicants).
Zoom ceremonies are a beautiful thing, certainly. But this only concerns people who have already had the chance to take their face-to-face test before the blockage, and +55 as I explained.
The residual pool of candidates who have already passed and passed their test will end (zoom ceremony performed ), sooner or later, and the weekly citizenship figures will drop to zero or close (Theoretically this will only concern the rare cases + 55 years old, or the procedures priority, even rarer).
Ah yes, one last thing: We must not lie to ourselves, human nature is bad in general ... Anyone who will try to discourage you will do so out of defeatism, xenophobia, racism, or simply because they are not concerned , and already have their citizenship ...
The mobilization on this forum has already shown effectiveness with the article on CBC, then the hastag on official IRCC accounts on social networks, which forced IRCC to do something (Inneficient as I explained, a decoy .. . But it's a start, better than nothing).
#Resume_Citizenship_Tests
