Hi,
Wondering if anyone has the same problem as me.
I've lived in Canada for 8 years and I'm finally eligible for citizenship.
The problem is they ask to submit a confirmation of permanent residence (imm 5292 or imm 5688) along with my PR card. I have the PR card, and every other document I've ever got from CIC, including several student and work visas, but I'm 100% sure they never gave me an IMM 5292 or IMM 5688 (and definitely not the obsolete IMM 1000).
I sense the difference is that most people in all the forums I just researched, seem to travel to Canada for their first time with COPR in hand, but I've lived here for years as a student and then as a work permit holder and only then i applied for PR from within Canada. I got my Permanent Residence issued in a CIC office in Etobicoke, Ontario. The paper they gave me is called "Confirmation of Permanent Residence" with a "NOT VALID FOR TRAVEL" label diagonally over it. This isn't at all similar to any IMM form, but that's all we got. It doesn't even have a stamp or a signature of CIC, looks exactly like this:
http://i62.tinypic.com/24uxqgm.jpg
So what should I do? I'm sure i never lost any document as I'm a very organized individual. I have scans of every immigration document I've ever had.
Will my application for citizenship be rejected? I certainly don't want to apply for a replacement of a document that i never had in the first place, and wait another 6 months for their own mistake to be corrected.
Please let me know.
thank you