How long to request in-person oath ceremony?

[armoured]

Family member has oath ceremony scheduled on-line; after contemplation, is now interested in having an in-person oath.

Anyone have any idea how long may take to reschedule? In Toronto, so there are certainly regular in-person ceremonies.

Obviously there's the election timing to consider, would like to vote.

 

[Seym]

While I haven't seen actual reports of people asking for a specific type of ceremony, all the people missing theirs and then getting another (without the additional hurdle of asking for an in-person ceremony specifically), have reported a wide range of rescheduling timelines, from 2 3 weeks to many many months.
Getting a ceremony in less than 5 weeks is at best a gamble, your family member should probably make a choice between attending their current ceremony, or asking for a replacement only if they absolutely don't care when the next ceremony takes place.
That, or, if the 28 of April is a hard deadline, clearly specifying in the webform or phone request that they intend to attend the original ceremony unless a new invitation happens before the original take place maybe? If not mistaken, I've seen reports of people asking for a new ceremony for travel reasons and successfully making it to the ceremony they thought they'd miss, so that should be possible!

 

[armoured]

While I haven't seen actual reports of people asking for a specific type of ceremony, all the people missing theirs and then getting another (without the additional hurdle of asking for an in-person ceremony specifically), have reported a wide range of rescheduling timelines, from 2 3 weeks to many many months.
Getting a ceremony in less than 5 weeks is at best a gamble, your family member should probably make a choice between attending their current ceremony, or asking for a replacement only if they absolutely don't care when the next ceremony takes place.
That, or, if the 28 of April is a hard deadline, clearly specifying in the webform or phone request that they intend to attend the original ceremony unless a new invitation happens before the original take place maybe? If not mistaken, I've seen reports of people asking for a new ceremony for travel reasons and successfully making it to the ceremony they thought they'd miss, so that should be possible!

Wrote and asked for in-person, got a response already warning that ceremony would not happen before April 21 (and to confirm if still wished to proceed). The individual decided would risk it and ask for the in-person (there is no urgency like travel planned and can live with not voting this time). So we shall see.

Thanks for the input.

 

[armoured]

Wrote and asked for in-person, got a response already warning that ceremony would not happen before April 21 (and to confirm if still wished to proceed). The individual decided would risk it and ask for the in-person (there is no urgency like travel planned and can live with not voting this time). So we shall see.

Thanks for the input.

Update: already came back to us with ceremony on the 25th. Probably got quite lucky in that in Toronto where there are regular ceremonies, etc.

 

[tobiashenry]

Just wondering if you use webform to write or did you email someone specifically?

 

[armoured]

Just wondering if you use webform to write or did you email someone specifically?

By email reply. The email invitation to the ceremony provides instructions on how to reply with request for different date, type, rescheduling, language etc with different email subjects depending on circumstances. (For some types of requests you have to provide reasons.)

We just followed those instructions, which for this case was a header titled something like 'request for in-person ceremony.' Again, as per the instructions (which are part of an attachment).