Did anyone received an email today stating:
We would like to offer you the opportunity to expedite the processing of your Citizenship application by attending a same-day Citizenship test and ceremony event at our Edmonton office on the date of your choosing.
Please note thet Itinerant Services to Grand Prairie, Fort Mcmurray and Yellowknife are tentatively planned for fall 2017.
Edmonton Citizenship Testing (10am)/ceremony (2pm) Dates; June 23,2017 please RSVP by June 06, 2017
If your query is in hopes of finding another applicant to share travel costs with, cannot help you with that. Pool of participants in the forum is fairly small.
If your query is asking about what this is, why, or such, I can offer the following:
This is the first anecdotal report of this process I have seen in a forum. However, for quite a long while this has been a stated IRCC practice (going back to CIC days) for some applicants who live in areas served by itinerant services. The practice recognizes that itinerant services may not be scheduled for lengthy periods of time in some locations and that individuals willing to travel to a local office for an earlier scheduled interview and oath should be afforded the opportunity to do so rather than wait.
It is entirely up to the affected individual applicant whether the applicant is willing to take the time and incur the expense of travel in order to expedite processing the application.
I live in an area served by itinerant services (we did have a local office until the Harper government closed it), but it has a large enough population and pool of citizenship applicants that they have scheduled services here frequently enough that there would be little gained by this practice (the "local" office for this area is around 1500 km away). So I was never offered this kind of opportunity, and just waited until the next time CIC (before it became IRCC) was in town to do interviews and an oath ceremony.
I think this is covered in the PDIs (Program Delivery Instructions) but I do not have a link handy.
So, congratulations. My guess is that they have screened the application closely before making this available, so all you need to do is say yes (reply in the way instructed), show up, pass the test, do the interview and show your passports and such, and take the oath that afternoon.
Or wait for the itinerant services to be scheduled in your area. And it appears they are still doing what they did when I went through the process, for itinerant services, which is to similarly schedule test, interview, and oath to occur close together, so there is a good chance that when the itinerant services are scheduled in your area, you would be scheduled for the test/interview with the oath to follow that day or within a couple days anyway.
