As I have said . . .
. . . it seems rather obvious that IRCC fell way short of doing everything it could, and fell well short of taking reasonable steps to adapt to the pandemic as it unfolded. It does indeed appear that IRCC dropped the ball, rather badly, and has continued to be painfully slow adapting and catching up. A two plus year processing timeline speaks for itself, illustrating a failure to competently adjust. After all, the grant of citizenship is NOT discretionary. IRCC has a legislated mandate to process citizenship applications and grant citizenship.
Do you work for IRCC? You seem so sure of your answers!
I do not and never have worked for IRCC or any Canadian government body in any capacity.
Hard to put how things "
seem" to you in context here.
If you doubt what I posted above about the extent to which IRCC has dropped the ball in responding to the situation created by the Covid global pandemic, or you doubt that despite some progress IRCC is, as I said, still struggling to adapt, or you doubt my observation that:
"So for now, and frankly for the near future plus awhile, no big mystery to solve, it is going to be slow-going for most, slow will be the rule, even if some in some way sail through faster than most."
If you doubt any of that, best I can offer is to look at the threads about processing timelines, and look at the spreadsheets, and look at IRCC's own numbers . . . they are currently posting a 26 month processing timeline for citizenship applications. Two plus years to process a citizenship application speaks rather loudly and clearly for itself. Not good.
Otherwise, if your doubts are about me in particular, frankly if you have read very much of what I post, it should be readily apparent I am not spouting baseless claims or unfounded opinions
off-the-cuff, but rather making an effort to inform, illuminate, and clarify what we know about how certain things work (my participation tending to focus on how just a small number of things work), albeit sometimes when it seems necessary, to also correct. And it should be readily apparent that I do the homework, a lot of homework actually, doing what I can to sort things out and get things right, as best we can. (In the context of and contrary to much of what is posted in this thread, it warrants noting that it helps to read available sources with an eye to understand them rather than to cherry pick sound bytes to fuel this or that personal agenda or grievance.)
That is, I make mistakes and am wrong, too often in fact, but when I am posting here, yeah, I've done the homework, done my best to get it right, and when there is cause to be unsure or have doubts, I try to note that. I cannot recite gospel, but I can say my posts are honest and genuine efforts to expand the community's understanding, to help. Notwithstanding detractors to the contrary (and oh yeah, as always everywhere, there tends to be no shortage of those who contest for the sake of contest).
To see and read some of my contributions here, in the forum, for an illustration of what I try to contribute, see (for example):
Refugee status cessation and PRs applying for citizenship
RQ versus Physical Presence Questionnaires, including CIT 0205
Who-accompanied-whom can matter for PRs living with citizen spouse abroad: UPDATE
Proof of Residency if Case Destined for a CJ Hearing
Caveat: as I have noted, I make mistakes. And there are indeed mistakes I made in some of the posts in the topics I link here. I have said things like the CIT 0520 is not "
RQ-lite" but is just a specific request for certain documents, but later even IRCC information was referring to this form as "
RQ-lite." I am always open to clarifications and corrections. I probably made a significant number of mistakes in early posts about cessation of refugee status, but in my defense when I started that topic there was much confusion and misinformation, even call centre agents were giving PRs erroneous advice, and initially it seemed I alone was trying to bring attention to the serious risks involved for PR-refugees applying for citizenship (brought about by a change in the law adopted by the Harper government).
had I known this, I would have just applied on paper. It would have taken an hour of hassle, but saved me all this wait. My gush!