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June 2024 - Citizenship Applications

vinay16

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@vinay16 @maverick1982 @Oscarsunil

Past biometrics given to IRCC for PR, WP, study permit, or at border, or in USA has no relevance for the citizenship application.

They run your personal information like name, DOB etc., against the RCMP database for criminality checks. If they find a partial match, they issue a FP request to make sure you are not the person found in the database. So not everyone gets an FP request, around 20-25% of folks get it. Sometimes they also issue it for quality integrity check of the process. As long as you haven't given fingerprints to RCMP for the specific purpose of citizenship in the past 1 year, you can expect to get a fingerprints request irrespective of past biometrics.

If the BG check is completed, then there would not be a fingerprints request as the criminality checks are already completed (unless in very rare cases when the application is pending for more than a year, then criminality checks are done again and might get a fingerprints request)
Thank you so much for detailed explanation
 
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ma5590

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I applied on June 25th on July 3rd I received AOR but no update after that ☹ should I follow up or should I wait?
same here. applied on June 29th with AOR on July 9th. No update since then, last update on the tracker is July 11th. Wonder what is happening with our applications?
 

maverick1982

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@vinay16 @maverick1982 @Oscarsunil

Past biometrics given to IRCC for PR, WP, study permit, or at border, or in USA has no relevance for the citizenship application.

They run your personal information like name, DOB etc., against the RCMP database for criminality checks. If they find a partial match, they issue a FP request to make sure you are not the person found in the database. So not everyone gets an FP request, around 20-25% of folks get it. Sometimes they also issue it for quality integrity check of the process. As long as you haven't given fingerprints to RCMP for the specific purpose of citizenship in the past 1 year, you can expect to get a fingerprints request irrespective of past biometrics.

If the BG check is completed, then there would not be a fingerprints request as the criminality checks are already completed (unless in very rare cases when the application is pending for more than a year, then criminality checks are done again and might get a fingerprints request)
Thanks for the crystal clear explanation
 
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Greenmaple2020

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No question is silly. We are all learning. Visible on tracker is when you see the actual update (two day delay) . The history in the tracker at bottom shows the date the update happened. So the officer may have updated on Monday, but you wont see it till wedensday. When you see the update on wednesday, the history at the bottom still shows Monday as date which we consider actual update date but at the top it shows Wednesdays date. . Ghost update is when just the date changes on the top. But no updates are see in the process or stages.

I don't often sign in the account. Don't know what was the "ghost update".....
 

maverick1982

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I don't often sign in the account. Don't know what was the "ghost update".....
You won't know what it was. You will just see date updated. If after two days you see an update then it was the update that showed up as ghost update when officer worked on file. If nothing shows up on tracker two days later then it's hard to say what was worked on
 
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Oscarsunil

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Test given on 6th of September
Today on 10th September got the update Test completed .
My wife gave her exam on 7th September may be in couple of days her exam will be completed as well .
 

maverick1982

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Test given on 6th of September
Today on 10th September got the update Test completed .
My wife gave her exam on 7th September may be in couple of days her exam will be completed as well .
@hssrp if two people have different dates, how do we update the sheet? Should we wait for his wife to complete and put the latest date? Thanks
 
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