March 2020 - Citizenship Applicants

[gregbro]

Does anyone know when to expect the Oath/Ceremony letter? It is scheduled for Dec. 10 but no oath letter received yet. Is it sent to home address or email?

 

[mhd10]

Does anyone know when to expect the Oath/Ceremony letter? It is scheduled for Dec. 10 but no oath letter received yet. Is it sent to home address or email?

There is no exact timeline but based on what myself and many other applicants here experiencd, you can expect an email less than a week before your ceremony date. For some, it was even sent 1 or 2 says before the ceremony date. So most likely you would have to wait until december to expect it.

 

[gregbro]

There is no exact timeline but based on what myself and many other applicants here experiencd, you can expect an email less than a week before your ceremony date. For some, it was even sent 1 or 2 says before the ceremony date. So most likely you would have to wait until december to expect it.

Thank you. I just wanted to make sure I didn't missed it in my email.

 

[gregbro]

Thank you. I just wanted to make sure I didn't missed it in my email.

The good thing is that it comes to our email address.

 

[aaq94]

Hey guys, I've got a question about the citizenship ceremony..
So, mine is supposed to be on Nov 16th, got the update about that months ago on the app status tracker. But since then nothing. I know we have to present some documents and what not, but they still haven't contacted me anything at all about the ceremony. What documents do I present and what's the procedure since it's online, do I show the documents in the ceremony..?
Or do we upload them somewhere before the ceremony?

Also, do we receive the citizenship certificate by mail before the virtual ceremony?

Thanks!

 

[ziyoufeixiang]

I am not sure if they hold more than one ceremony per day in different provinces. In one ceremony they can have applicants from multiple provinces, though. To have two oaths in the same day and in the same province/office, that's unlikely.

and I won't be surprised if they hold only one oath ceremony per week.

 

[ballerbluezen]

Congrats. 100+ people is a good number. I mostly say < 50 people per ceremony. Also, 90 minutes for 100 people is a remarkable time (not long).

Thanks! Yes to be fair with Calgary Office, they were really efficient. You'll know that different officials where managing the registration as they put their initials in each applicant's zoom username (seat number/ name / initials of who did the registration), after you're done in the break out room, so there were a great number of initials (forgot how many).

For the number of participants, some folks in the waiting room, were counting the participants and were chatting about it. So it's true that it's possible that they can manage over a 100+ people.

 

[Munt_007]

There is no exact timeline but based on what myself and many other applicants here experiencd, you can expect an email less than a week before your ceremony date. For some, it was even sent 1 or 2 says before the ceremony date. So most likely you would have to wait until december to expect it.

Is it online ceremony or physical one?

 

[Prabjot]

Hi posting again in case someone can help please.

I applied for citizenship in March 2020. I am a frequent traveler to US. I was asked to submit I94 entry/exit details but I94 website only have last 100 entries. I have too many more trips in last 5 years. So I requested FOIA. But it came with only few records from2015-2017 only and have many missing and incorrect entries. I have submitted the appeal now nd waiting.

Can anyone please suggest if they were in similar situation? Or suggest what can be done?

Thanks for the help here!

Bumping up in case anyone have any experience .....

 

[CaBeaver]

and I won't be surprised if they hold only one oath ceremony per week.

I think they started to realize one ceremony a week is not going to clear the oath backlog, and will create a greater one. I can speak for the Montreal office, only recently they scheduled oath almost every day form Nov 2 until Nov 12, as reported by someone who followed the oath dates on the spreadsheet. I hope they keep this momentum, otherwise, the wait will be very long.

 

[ziyoufeixiang]

I think they started to realize one ceremony a week is not going to clear the oath backlog, and will create a greater one. I can speak for the Montreal office, only recently they scheduled oath almost every day form Nov 2 until Nov 12, as reported by someone who followed the oath dates on the spreadsheet. I hope they keep this momentum, otherwise, the wait will be very long.

thanks for the updates.
Was that because of the appointment of the new minister of IRCC? The previous minister messed up everything at IRCC.

 

[ziyoufeixiang]

Bumping up in case anyone have any experience .....

seems that your case is quite complicated. Maybe get an immigration lawyer to avoid these complications?

 

[Mexontario]

Hi posting again in case someone can help please.

I applied for citizenship in March 2020. I am a frequent traveler to US. I was asked to submit I94 entry/exit details but I94 website only have last 100 entries. I have too many more trips in last 5 years. So I requested FOIA. But it came with only few records from2015-2017 only and have many missing and incorrect entries. I have submitted the appeal now nd waiting.

Can anyone please suggest if they were in similar situation? Or suggest what can be done?

Thanks for the help here!

Canada do exchange land entry/exit data with US. You may be able to find that data by requesting history from CBSA. Not sure why they are asking you again.

 

[CaBeaver]

thanks for the updates.
Was that because of the appointment of the new minister of IRCC? The previous minister messed up everything at IRCC.

No idea. Either that or they have started to wake up. It's IRCC nature to adapt slowly to reality.

 

[mhd10]

Is it online ceremony or physical one?

Due to the pandemic so far the ceremonies are online through zoom.