Hi everyone,
Firstly I would like to thank the person who started this thread and to all of you who regularly post your comments, your progress and your problems here. It has been a very valuable source of information and has kept me updated with the progress of other applicants. I wanted to update you about our progress.
We are a family of 2 adults and 2 kids. We applied on May 2nd 2013, and our file process started July 17 2013. We reside in Toronto.
We have travelled regularly to the US for holiday trips and family visits. We also made a trip to India just before applying for citizenship. We had maintained a book with the exact travel dates which we mentioned in our form.
I never called the CIC to find out about my file progress. My regular duty was to check this forum to see if anyone had heard anything. I had planned to call CIC in Jan 2014. Therefore I don't know when the file was transferred to the local office.
Well, today we are very pleased to announce that we got our letter for citizenship test. We are scheduled to go for it in Jan 2014. (the ecas doesn't show the change)
I wanted to post this now, so that people, like me, who have applied from the GTA will know that yes, there is hope and you may be getting some good news soon. We feel lucky and blessed that our process will soon come to an end. We wish and pray the same for all of you.
Once again thank you so very much. I will update you once our test is done and we get a date for our oath ceremony. Fingers crossed!!!