December 2021 - Citizenship Applicants

[Clemency30]

Another hopeless week as a Vancouver applicant. Now this is my 13th month going since the application. No updates since 17th December ghost update. Only test is completed on October 14th. Radio silence since then.. all of us deserves better than this... People who says "all you gotta do is wait patiently, they will give when they give" don't understand the pain and stress behind this. For someone, this could mean that their child who will be born outside Canada will be a citizen too. To another this would mean, they could spend more time taking care of their age old mother living outside of Canada, without worrying about returning to Canada for any residence or oath obligations immediately. To another it could be a job related issues. Hope this would get cleared pretty soon.

I know how you feel, the wait can be really frustrating. Everything has been completed on my profile since October 20, 2022 and it's been silence since then. Vancouver office sucks. I'm tired of checking my profile everyday cos the wait is stressing me out. I just feel stuck. This is my 13th month since I applied

 

[aphermix]

I just received my certificate- Here is my timeline so far. Now passport, surrender and OCI pending. Pheww ...

Type: Online application, Single
Application Office: Scarborough
Application submitted: Dec 04, 2021
AOR: Feb. 11, 2022
Ghost update #1: August 16, 2022
BG Completed: August 18, 2022
Test Invite on Tracker: August 29, 2022
Test Invite Email: August 30, 2022
Test Window: Sep 2, 2022 to Sep 22, 2022
Test Taken: Sep 2, 2022
Test Marked Complete: Sep 6, 2022
Physical presence, Prohibitions, Language Skills marked complete: Nov 5, 2022
Oath changed to "In Progress" on tracker: Nov 24, 2022
Oath Email Received: Dec 08, 2022
Oath Date: Dec 22, 2022
File Closed in Tracker: Dec 24, 2022
Certificate received: Jan 03, 2023

 

[Clemency30]

Any other Vancouver applicants with oath invites?

 

[kitu123]

Another hopeless week as a Vancouver applicant. Now this is my 13th month going since the application. No updates since 17th December ghost update. Only test is completed on October 14th. Radio silence since then.. all of us deserves better than this... People who says "all you gotta do is wait patiently, they will give when they give" don't understand the pain and stress behind this. For someone, this could mean that their child who will be born outside Canada will be a citizen too. To another this would mean, they could spend more time taking care of their age old mother living outside of Canada, without worrying about returning to Canada for any residence or oath obligations immediately. To another it could be a job related issues. Hope this would get cleared pretty soon.

We are all in this together

Any other Vancouver applicants with oath invites?

i think the officers at Vancouver office are sleeping. Life was so good before i took the citizenship test. Though i passed the test but i have been checking my tracker daily sometimes 3 times a day.. and it is depressing to see no update for the oath.

 

[ABhagc]

I’m not able to load my tracker anyone facing similar issue. My oath is scheduled for 10th Jan.

 

[Sherwin7]

Another hopeless week as a Vancouver applicant. Now this is my 13th month going since the application. No updates since 17th December ghost update. Only test is completed on October 14th. Radio silence since then.. all of us deserves better than this... People who says "all you gotta do is wait patiently, they will give when they give" don't understand the pain and stress behind this. For someone, this could mean that their child who will be born outside Canada will be a citizen too. To another this would mean, they could spend more time taking care of their age old mother living outside of Canada, without worrying about returning to Canada for any residence or oath obligations immediately. To another it could be a job related issues. Hope this would get cleared pretty soon.

so many people in the same boat..

 

[lyluk]

I got a change of status ('In progress' to 'Not started') as I checked it on my Tracker. It says the below.
Has anyone got this before? Does it mean they changed their mind on the ceremony and have paused my application?


Application history

• Oct 27, 2022
  
  
  Activity status updated: Citizenship oath
  Citizenship ceremony
  Citizenship oath status has been updated to Not started.
  
  
• Oct 12, 2022
  
  
  Activity status updated: Citizenship oath
  Citizenship ceremony
  Citizenship oath status has been updated to In progress.

 

[Ivric]

I got a change of status ('In progress' to 'Not started') as I checked it on my Tracker. It says the below.
Has anyone got this before? Does it mean they changed their mind on the ceremony and have paused my application?


Application history

• Oct 27, 2022
  
  
  Activity status updated: Citizenship oath
  Citizenship ceremony
  Citizenship oath status has been updated to Not started.
  
  
• Oct 12, 2022
  
  
  Activity status updated: Citizenship oath
  Citizenship ceremony
  Citizenship oath status has been updated to In progress.

In the Application History section do you have anything like this?


Scheduled for Citizenship oath
Citizenship ceremony
Congratulations! You've been scheduled to attend your citizenship ceremony on Month Day, 2023. Follow the instructions you will receive in your ceremony invitation.

 

[wink]

I’m not able to load my tracker anyone facing similar issue. My oath is scheduled for 10th Jan.

https://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/threads/december-2021-citizenship-applicants.751276/post-10314688

 

[Ivric]

I’m not able to load my tracker anyone facing similar issue. My oath is scheduled for 10th Jan.

Did you get the invitation to take the Oath though?

 

[actntrl]

Vancouver applicant

just got official email w/ instructions (notice to appear) for Jan 17th Oath

Anyone know how long it takes to get citizenship certificate after swearing oath? any idea how long passport procesisng times are now? I have a trip in june but still worried cuz i saw how hectic this summer was.

 

[smash1984]

Vancouver applicant

just got official email w/ instructions (notice to appear) for Jan 17th Oath

Anyone know how long it takes to get citizenship certificate after swearing oath? any idea how long passport procesisng times are now? I have a trip in june but still worried cuz i saw how hectic this summer was.

passport wait times are much lower now actually if you apply in person.

I got my daughters' passport made in November. Submitted documents in person in Hamilton, Ontario and received the passport in the mail in 2 weeks. Even the border police commented as to how did my daughter get passport so quickly .

The only caveat here was that I made a booking for in person appointment in early October, and earliest date I was getting was 7th November.

It's the mail in applications that were taking time (which is what the passport officer told me at that time)

 

[lyluk]

In the Application History section do you have anything like this?


Scheduled for Citizenship oath
Citizenship ceremony
Congratulations! You've been scheduled to attend your citizenship ceremony on Month Day, 2023. Follow the instructions you will receive in your ceremony invitation.

I wish but no - nothing of the sort. It worries me that 'in progress' is now 'not started'. Where is this going wrong, it's like a step backwards ... there are no written explanations as to why.
Physical presence was completed in August.

 

[blueberries2022]

Another hopeless week as a Vancouver applicant. Now this is my 13th month going since the application. No updates since 17th December ghost update. Only test is completed on October 14th. Radio silence since then.. all of us deserves better than this... People who says "all you gotta do is wait patiently, they will give when they give" don't understand the pain and stress behind this. For someone, this could mean that their child who will be born outside Canada will be a citizen too. To another this would mean, they could spend more time taking care of their age old mother living outside of Canada, without worrying about returning to Canada for any residence or oath obligations immediately. To another it could be a job related issues. Hope this would get cleared pretty soon.

Vancouver is super slow in general - yawn. Might take them another year to send oath invitations.

 

[actntrl]

passport wait times are much lower now actually if you apply in person.

I got my daughters' passport made in November. Submitted documents in person in Hamilton, Ontario and received the passport in the mail in 2 weeks. Even the border police commented as to how did my daughter get passport so quickly .

The only caveat here was that I made a booking for in person appointment in early October, and earliest date I was getting was 7th November.

It's the mail in applications that were taking time (which is what the passport officer told me at that time)

by that do you mean making an appointment to go to a Service Canada location directly? Thank you