December 2024 - Citizenship Applications
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I have been asked to appear for an interview with the citizenship officer on Apr 28th. What are the things that I need to watch out for? I have kept original documents like Passport, ID cards, Educational documents etc. Any pointers on what documents should i carry (original or prints). See below for the text in the letter for citizenship interview.
Depends on why you think they decided to call you in. For me, I made sure I had all my passports that had exit and entry stamps...and evidence of my stay in Canada...use of credit cards etc, so they can see it was me, rental records, health card etc. I also had my original IELTS record just in case.
as noted by @wizerd above, you are more likely to have an idea of things they might want to check - everyone else would be just guessing.
That said: it seems a fair number of the interviews, possibly most of them, are just randomly selected and probably 'quality checks' - where they just want to see some of the docs and do a quick 'everything matches' check (ID matches, person can answer questions about themselves that fit the application, maybe they look at passport stamps or other docs, language facility and work/education fit the descriptions.) So for many it's quite routine, they ask a few questions, look at some docs, and that's it. In other words, it's often enough not really 'about' the applicant.
Occasionally it might be connected to something else going on - checks on an external test provider or who knows what. (But even those can just be 'audits' with sample testing)
Anyone with the Scarborough Application center and have not heard any updates since beginning March?
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I have had lot of short travels to United States in the last two years. that is the only reason I can assume.
Sure, could be. Could just be random check as described above. If you travelled a lot to states and/or possibly working abroad, they may want to just do a 'sanity check' that you're actually living in Canada per your app stuff.
Although the info sharing and entry/exit systems have been tightened a lot in recent years - they capture more info than they used to, so IRCC is mostly checking your dates as submitted by you in the physical presence calculator against what they have - mistakes still happen. (Or you could have made a mistake of course). So it could just be a quick question or two about something like that. (My spouse's CBSA records had one exit missing - so it had two entries in a row, hence obvious something missing - and we'll see what happens with that.)
It depends on the availability I guess. I had my oath ceremony a little over a month after passing the test.
I did mine the 12th of March and I haven't received my oath invitation, even if I did, I don't think it will happen before May 12 (2 months after my test date) so, I think that my answer for you is that yes, it is possible that it will take more than two months but, I have seen people getting that faster than me as well.
You should look at the tracker. The point in the process at which the largest variability occurs is the LPP - where some files get stuck for longer (probably because of the 'prohibitions' which is security-adjacent).
There are a fair number that go more quickly than two months. But the average looks to be two months from test to decision made (i.e. LPP complete), plus another 2-3 weeks to the oath ceremony.
Under two months from test complete to oath is, obviously, better than average.
