Yes, if you stay out and just make it to meet residency, they will question more for sure. All the best. Hope all clear soon. My physcial presence is pending too after language and prohibitions cleared. I was out 1.5 years after getting PR and travelled to US many times after that. So no wonder.
June 2024 - Citizenship Applications
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In my case I was in the USA for 1.5 years after my soft landing and have about 3 trips to USA and 5 trips to India. Fp still pending after 12 days of submission and lpp in progress. Do they work on lpp before background completion? Thanks
Yes i have seen one person atleast, whose LPP was done before and then background. It is not the usual sequence but it does happen. I did not have fingerprint request. I took the Us background check again while submitting for citizenship, even though i had not stayed continuously for 6 months in last 4 years.
I'm in the same boat too. I did my soft landing end of 2018 and was out for about 2.5 years and travelled to USA about 4-5 times and a couple of trips to home country too. It's been more than three weeks since my test was marked complete and I learnt that my application is in the Vancouver office. LPP is in progress.
I’ve just verified the Microsoft Teams link, and it’s the same for both of us.
The IRCC requested that we submit copies of all pages of any passports or travel documents we possess. Since we haven’t left Canada since 2011 and haven’t had any plans to travel abroad, the only passports we have are expired ones from 2015 from our home country. We had already included the first page of these expired passports in our application.
We have now submitted copies of all pages from our expired passports.
@hssrp and anyone else, your feedback would be appreciated. Is there anything specific we should prepare for before the interview in our situation?
Also, still kind of interesting that office has been change from MBSK to Edmonton...
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In your case they might be interested in knowing why you did not renew your home country passport.
Other then that - https://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/threads/meeting-with-citizenship-officer.789728/post-10420661
Like @forw.jane mentioned, they would be interested to know and make sure about your passport gap as you do not have any valid passport during the full eligibility period. While it is not mandatory to have a passport, but is a bit uncommon to not have renewed the passport for 9 years so they just want to make sure. If everything checks out Ok, they will complete your LPP the same day.
Vancouver is slow for LPP, they can take a couple of months. If you have buffer days they may or may not do additional check. I travelled to US 19 times and India 4 times during pr . One travel to India was while I was in US. So they may want to verify duration, ask for passport scan. I'm wondering if it's a good idea to raise web form and submit copies proactively
So, it is an online interview ?
making it in-person gives us more opportunity to show docs, prove point etc.
Online at the same time for myself and my spouse.
Do we need to prepare something to prove that we don't have any other passports? I honestly not sure how to prove that.... We just haven't travelled outside of Canada , we have 4 little kids, only myself working, the only travel we could afford it was inside Canada , like Penticton BC .
That should be totally fine. Having a valid foreign passport is not a requirement for citizenship. Some cant afford trip and some cannot for other reasons. this may raise eyebrows but that is not any basis to grant or not grant. Canada is vast and diverse enough to explore. Keep clam and state facts and you should be good.
@maverick1982 could you please update tracker :
Sep 23 - Interview request for Oct 9.
It looks like office has been changed to Edmonton from MBSK , as test we had from MBSK but interview request came from Edmonton.
Sep 23 - Interview request for Oct 9.
It looks like office has been changed to Edmonton from MBSK , as test we had from MBSK but interview request came from Edmonton.