January 2020 - citizenship application

[Brian2015]

Don't think 1 day will matter. If you flagpoled u were only out of the country for an hour.

 

[dgh1364]

Hello Everyone,

I hope you guys are safe and healthy.

I was going through forum and it came to my notice that I forgot to record 1 day in my physical presence calculator when I did flagpole at US border to get my PR. It was just flagpole and nothing else. At that time I didn’t had a US Visa. Can someone please help me in this. What should I do ?

I did flagpole in 2016 and in 2018 I got US Visa and made 2 trips to US which I have recorded properly in Physical Presence Calculator. In total I have 1230 days of physical presence.

I submitted my Citizenship application in Jan 2020 and till now I haven’t got any test invite. I only got fingerprints request which I have already completed. My file is in Vancouver office.

Relax!
Did they put a stamp on your passport (canada or US side)? If not Don't even worry. Also, flagpole doesn't count as a day as far as I know since it is couple hours. You also have days more than enough

 

[Doda]

Relax!
Did they put a stamp on your passport (canada or US side)? If not Don't even worry. Also, flagpole doesn't count as a day as far as I know since it is couple hours. You also have days more than enough

You don’t need a stamp in your passport to flagpole, but you are registered at both ends that you left and entered again. It doesn’t count as a day lost, but technically you did leave Canada.

 

[edwsqa]

Relax!
Did they put a stamp on your passport (canada or US side)? If not Don't even worry. Also, flagpole doesn't count as a day as far as I know since it is couple hours. You also have days more than enough

They didn’t added put any stamp on my passport. I only got US VISA 1.5 years after that. The visits I did to US after getting passport are properly recorded though. If they had put a stamp in my passport I could have remembered it. But I have also added photocopies of all the stamps that are on my passport along with the one that was added by Canadian side when I did flagpole.

 

[edwsqa]

You don’t need a stamp in your passport to flagpole, but you are registered at both ends that you left and entered again. It doesn’t count as a day lost, but technically you did leave Canada.

What would you suggest? Should I submit a webform and let them know ?

 

[Bitologue]

Hi everyone,

I had the interview yesterday May 26,2021.

My update :

Location : Quebec City (Montreal Office)
Application Type : Single
Physical Presence : 1228
Application Sent : Jan 6, 2020
Application received : Jan 13, 20
AOR : March 12, 2020
Start processing : September 11, 2020
Background verification updated to completed : January 20, 2021
Citizenship test updated to In progress : April 21, 2021
Citizen ship test invite : May 4, 2021
Citizenship test passed : May 09, 2021 (20/20)
Citizenship test updated to Completed : May 10, 2021
Interview required : May 21, 2021
Interview passed : May 26, 2021
Language skills activity status updated to completed : May 26, 2021
Physical presence activity status updated to completed : May 26, 2021
Prohibitions activity status updated to completed : May 26, 2021
Citizenship ceremony : Not start

ECAS Status (Old system) : Decision Made

HI '
we have the same date for all the steps ! and i'am with monteral office too . i get my invitation for interview today and i will pass 03 juin, what was the questions they ask? i still have Language ,Physical presence and Prohibitions activity in progress i hope they turn to complete the day of my interview too. pleas keep me a ware when it move from your side as we have very close dates ... thanks

 

[Doda]

What would you suggest? Should I submit a webform and let them know ?

Yes I would. Won't lose anything.

 

[edwsqa]

Yes I would. Won't lose anything.

One more question, Will it have any negative impact on my file. I will be reporting them this after almost 1.5 years after I submitted my file.

 

[Doda]

One more question, Will it have any negative impact on my file. I will be reporting them this after almost 1.5 years after I submitted my file.

I honestly don’t know, but declaring a mistake shouldn’t be penalized. Again, it doesn’t affect your presence, so it shouldn’t be a problem to declare so.

 

[longgone]

Please update my info (Jan, 2020):
- ID longgone
- App. Sent Jan 27, 2020
- Test Invite letter/ecas date May 17, 2021
- Test Interview date May 30, 2021
Thank you!

 

[rajkamalmohanram]

Please update my info (Jan, 2020):
- ID longgone
- App. Sent Jan 27, 2020
- Test Invite letter/ecas date May 17, 2021
- Test Interview date May 30, 2021
Thank you!

Updated!

 

[dustinbee66]

I see that your Office is Montreal. Do you received Oath Invitation?

I am also waiting Oath Invitation

 

[limits]

Had a couple questions for people here:
1. On my ECAS tracker, my application has stopped updating after 'In Process' although I passed the online citizenship test and have my test interview tomorrow. Is this normal?
2. Does the 'Decision Made' step get posted to ECAS or do you get an email?
3. What is the expected wait time for the oath letter and oath ceremony after the decision is made?

Thanks!

 

[rajkamalmohanram]

Had a couple questions for people here:
1. On my ECAS tracker, my application has stopped updating after 'In Process' although I passed the online citizenship test and have my test interview tomorrow. Is this normal?

Yes.

2. Does the 'Decision Made' step get posted to ECAS or do you get an email?

It'll show up as an ECAS update.

3. What is the expected wait time for the oath letter and oath ceremony after the decision is made?

Nobody can tell you that. It varies from person to person because the local office, officer processing the application, the workload of the office etc are variables. You might want to check the spreadsheet in my signature to see what some cases where timelines are recorded.

Thanks!

 

[Brian2015]

Physical presence 1253
Application sent 5th Jan 2020
AOR 11th March 2020
Additional info requested 28th sept 2020
Additional info recieved 29th sept 2020
Background info verified 20th jan 2021
Citizenship test 26th April to 17th May 2021.

Can you please add me to the spread sheet.