Law C-24 and "In Process" application processing method

[sweetakash]

Hello All,

I want to invite your thoughts on the following situation due to C-24 Law...

Current approach for "grant of citizenship" involves CJ finalizing an application. - Method (A)
According to C-24 law - Minister/Delegate will finalize the "grant of citizenship". - Method (B)

If the govt decides to take a cut-off date approach to implement the new C-24 law then they will have to keep both the processing methods live to take care of "In Process" applications before and after cut-off date, which will be expensive for govt to maintain.
So there are chances that govt will convert all the currently "In Process" applications to follow the new (B) method for finalizing citizenship application.
what are your thoughts on this?

 

[polarbear]

To begin with, first all CJ's will be fired from their jobs ;D ;D

 

[sweetakash]

If that happens, then the transition of all the "In Process" applications from old processing method to new one will delay the application current processing.
Secondly, all the "In Process" applications will go from the hands of known devil to the unknown one, which may call for more docs, more RQs, more proofs.

 

[QAI]

Hello All,

I want to invite your thoughts on the following situation due to C-24 Law...

Current approach for "grant of citizenship" involves CJ finalizing an application. - Method (A)
According to C-24 law - Minister/Delegate will finalize the "grant of citizenship". - Method (B)

If the govt decides to take a cut-off date approach to implement the new C-24 law then they will have to keep both the processing methods live to take care of "In Process" applications before and after cut-off date, which will be expensive for govt to maintain.
So there are chances that govt will convert all the currently "In Process" applications to follow the new (B) method for finalizing citizenship application.
what are your thoughts on this?

I hope CIC goes the easy route which is to set a date after which all applicants get assessed using C-24 bill. I think they will continue to assess old applications according to the old laws. It might require too much work to pick out what should be assessed under new law and maybe even logistically very expensive.

 

[paw339]

It's possible CIC might phase the changes in. For example, straight forward, over 1095 days physical presence, no red flag applications might be allowed to be approved by citizenship officers almost immediately which would really help to speed things up.

 

[sweetakash]

It's possible CIC might phase the changes in. For example, straight forward, over 1095 days physical presence, no red flag applications might be allowed to be approved by citizenship officers almost immediately which would really help to speed things up.

If that happens it would be great.
But it exactly defeats the purpose of C-24, which makes getting citizenship harder and losing it easier.
If govt has done so much to bring in C-24, they are not going to go easy on any application, be it old or new.

 

[chakrab]

If that happens it would be great.
But it exactly defeats the purpose of C-24, which makes getting citizenship harder and losing it easier.
If govt has done so much to bring in C-24, they are not going to go easy on any application, be it old or new.

stop giving in to the rhetoric.