docrui said:
its too expensive and really why should we even have to file one the system is a bloody joke I'm thinking its all a hoax so they can hiring more people.I have filed a official complaint against the Winnipeg office and no one has gotten back to me .when they told me someone would contact me directly B.S just like the 1 800 line ... got RQ'ed one week after passing my test in January 2013 I lived in Canada for 40 years now ...seems to be any one that filed in 2010 here gets RQ'ed by the same person ... She issues RQ"s out like its Halloween ....Trick or Treat ........
Actually, according to ATIP requests made by several citizenship applicants including myself, your statement is not totally wrong as at some point, precisely between june 2012 and march 2013, a huge majority of the cases got RQed, mainly because of the A5 and C1 risk factors that CIC used to find potentially fraudulent applications. In their exchanges between each other ( we have the emails they sent to their managers), they all had huge doubts about the risk factors and about the fact that because of this most applicants are getting RQed due to OB407 !
All of this changed starting august 2013 ( maybe a little bit before) when OB407 got replaced by OB 407D that waived most of the RQ's and replaced them with more thorough questionning during the citizenship interview after the test. A lot of applications that got RQed back then are getting reviewed now and a lot of people are reporting that their cases are finally moving. In some Privacy Act requests, people even saw that their applications had clearly the following status " According to OB 407D, this applicant doesn't need an RQ anymore, Residency will be verified during interview"
