January 2022 - Citizenship Applications

[DMyrie]

Update Aug 31st
Family of 3
Oath scheduled for October 6.
Please update tracker

 

[gaurangnshah]

made a mistake - submitted online application.

has anyone got a oath ceremony who applied online in Jan ? seems like paper application is much faster than online

 

[smash1984]

12 Months. If you click on "Service standards" on the page, it will take you to this page with the details: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/corporate/mandate/service-declaration/service-standards.html

But I don't know how they define percentage of backlog that is within and without service standards. If, for example, every application takes 24 months to complete and the flow of applications in and out is constant, then at any time 50% of the applications would have been in the system for less than 12 months and 50% for more than 12 months. Do they count this as 50% of applications being within service standard, or 0% of them being within service standard, given that all of the applications will take 24 months before completion?

Thanks for clarifying service standards. So its 12 months.

IRCC is a little clever. They know they are supposed to be meeting "service standards" so in order to make them look better than they are, all the backlog applications go further back in the line. Since these numbers have already made their stats look bad, they leave these applications in the backlog and concentrate on trying to process the new ones within the 1 year timeline. This way there won't be any new additions to their backlog and overall pile of "processed" applications will be higher. Which is why you see applications that are in the backlog stay in the backlog for a long time.

 

[fulton1712]

After test how long do they take to update everything else? I did my test in June 2022.

 

[everydaydealer]

Right when i about to withdraw my online and apply as family through paper, my BG updated to complete.

Please update Tracker. BG Completed Sep 1, 2022

 

[anumantra]

Update Aug 31st
Family of 3
Oath scheduled for October 6.
Please update tracker

Where do you see the Oath date? My application was updated on Aug 10th that all checks have completed except Oath Ceremony and no update since.
On ECAS, it says Decision made since Aug 9th.

 

[chanakyashah]

Right when i about to withdraw my online and apply as family through paper, my BG updated to complete.

Please update Tracker. BG Completed Sep 1, 2022

You have no idea how happy your post makes me. It feels like my application got the BG complete hahah… god speed!

 

[amit.r]

How do I update my address. I applied on paper from Montreal but have now shifted to Mississauga

 

[mindfreaak]

Right when i about to withdraw my online and apply as family through paper, my BG updated to complete.

Please update Tracker. BG Completed Sep 1, 2022

Congrats buddy, We almost have the same timeline just +1 day, hopefully I hear something soon

 

[mindfreaak]

Oh I just checked the tracker, I have ghost update

• Type: Online
• Submission date: 04 January 2022
• Physical Presence: 1120
• Location: Saint-Lambert
• AOR: 25 February 2022
• In progress: 28 February 2022
• Ghost update: 02 September 2022

 

[oadeseun]

Right when i about to withdraw my online and apply as family through paper, my BG updated to complete.

Please update Tracker. BG Completed Sep 1, 2022

When did you apply?

 

[oadeseun]

Does anyone know what bucket I’ll be in ? Applied dec ‘21, but ircc asked for missing info feb 15th(I assume when they were sending AOR for Dec). I sent info within 2 hours, then got my AOR march 22nd. It was because I had used the wrong elibility date even though I qualified already, but I had calculated my physical presence some weeks before application date. But even though one qualifies already, it should be the date of application

Do they use application date or AOR date when processing ? Mine is still in progress

 

[civiluv24]

Does anyone know what bucket I’ll be in ? Applied dec ‘21, but ircc asked for missing info feb 15th(I assume when they were sending AOR for Dec). I sent info within 2 hours, then got my AOR march 22nd. It was because I had used the wrong elibility date even though I qualified already, but I had calculated my physical presence some weeks before application date. But even though one qualifies already, it should be the date of application

Do they use application date or AOR date when processing ? Mine is still in progress

Unfortunately they use the AOR date for processing. So it would be from 22MAR2022. its weird, but this is what i have seen and many raising concerns.

 

[chanakyashah]

Oh I just checked the tracker, I have ghost update

• Type: Online
• Submission date: 04 January 2022
• Physical Presence: 1120
• Location: Saint-Lambert
• AOR: 25 February 2022
• In progress: 28 February 2022
• Ghost update: 02 September 2022

Amazing!! Seeing some movements in Jan now. Let’s pray for all online applicants.

 

[Bhaumik_Patel]

Applied online on January 2nd. Just got test invite. I have between Sept 6-26 to take the test.