December 2023 - Citizenship Applications
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My application is Dec 3 and I got all mine completed except the oat yesterday
That's awesome!
Did everything complete at the same time (yesterday) or you had the background completed before?
Also, what's your office?
I am in the same boat. Only test completed on Feb 08. No updates post that.
Meanwhile Jan applicants have already started receiving oath!!
IRCC are horrible with sequence or maintaining processing order integrity. I delayed applying for my Citizenship by serval months because of a similar issue when applying for my WP where applicants 3 months later were getting approved and ours (November) applications were just 'stuck' or missing in queue somewhere. Do not be surprised is December applications move away slower than January or February (especially with the change in how Background checks were getting completed).
Cannot wait to be done with that agency.
Cannot wait to be done with that agency.
Yeah, I saw that too. A possible scenario is that the Jan and Feb files have gone to a different processing centre who obviously weren't that busy. What is the point to "responsibly" applying on time, just to see applications sent later getting processed earlier. Not only is this not fair, what is the point to all the application related metrics that they provide. Instead they should tell us the workload in each office and give us the option to send our application to the one where there is less workload (clearly they are not doing a good job of distributing the workload, might as well let us take the onus).
Is there a way to make them more accountable? Some place where we can notify them about this discrepancy?
Pretty ironic your name given the circumstance. I don't think there's a way to make them more accountable than representatives bringing it up in stakeholder roundtable discussions with the minister. Unless there's a big policy change I believe this is one of those where it becomes the 'norm' like in most government parastatals worldwide.
Most Applications should be processed in the order they were received with the differences being in how quickly certain requests are honored by applicants (or how much scrutiny an app requires). All the moving offices or caseloads favoring people who applied much later only highlights the broken system in place.
