I AM IN CANADA FROM OCT 2012, WHICH YEAR I CAN APPLY CITIZENSHIP????

[raj saxena]

:-[ :-[ :-[HELLO EVERYONE :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(

I AM FROM INDIA AND I CAME TO CANADA (TORONTO) IN 15TH OCT 2012 ,
I AM WORRIED THAT THIS NEW BILL MAY EFFECT MY TIME LINE FOR CITIZENSHIP AND WHICH YEAR AND MONTH I HAVE TO APPLY CITIZENSHIP.
THANKS

 

[goodman36]

:-[ :-[ :-[HELLO EVERYONE :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(

I AM FROM INDIA AND I CAME TO CANADA (TORONTO) IN 15TH OCT 2012 ,
I AM WORRIED THAT THIS NEW BILL MAY EFFECT MY TIME LINE FOR CITIZENSHIP AND WHICH YEAR AND MONTH I HAVE TO APPLY CITIZENSHIP.
THANKS

You can't change a rule by worrying.

If you came as a PR in Canada in October, 2012 and has not left a day since then, you are eligible to apply in October 2015 under the current rule IF the new rule (of 4 years physical presence within last 6 years) DOES NOT take into effect. Otherwise, you will have to qualify under the new rule.

 

[screech339]

Since you landed in Oct 2012 and assuming you had not stayed in Canada at all before landing as PR, you won't qualify under the old rule until October 2015 at the minimum. By then the new citizenship rule will have already gone into effect. Thus you would not be able to qualify for citizenship until Oct 2016 assuming again you never left Canada since you landed.

 

[Michels]

{{My ears are hurting}}

 

[raj saxena]

since 15 oct 2012 i am in canada never go out of country

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[screech339]

since 15 oct 2012 i am in canada never go out of country

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That means you qualify under the old rule in Oct 2015. But the problem is that by then the new rule will have already gone into effect. You would have to apply under the new 4 / 6 rules. You would qualify in Oct 2016. 4 year after you land in oct 2012.

 

[sept15]

{{My ears are hurting}}

lol - mine too...