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May 2021 - Citizenship Applications

sinou3939

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Jun 10, 2020
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How much time does it take from BGC Completed to Test Invite? I mean what are the typical time lines based on our excel sheet tracking?
Thanks in advance.
Many of the test invites for online applications have come before BGC is complete. So I’m not sure if there is a single rule of thumb here. The order may be different for paper applications tho.
 
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lattersnow

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Sep 22, 2018
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Just got test invite today!

Type: Online
Location: Toronto
Physical Presence Days: 1099.5
Application: Single
Application sent: May 10, 2021
Delivered: May 10, 2021
AOR: August 31, 2021
FP Request: Jan 5, 2022
Test Window: January 14, 2022 until February 3, 2022

BCG and PP are both still in progress
 

Lordnath

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Apr 13, 2017
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Toronto, Canada
Category........
FAM
App. Filed.......
24-09-2019
Update!!!
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Type: Online Application
Location: Richmond Hill, ON
Physical Presence Days: 1,135
Application: Single
Application sent: May 12, 2021
Delivered: May 12, 2021
AOR: Aug 31, 2021
Background Check Completed: Dec 22, 2021
Citizenship test (In Progress) Jan 7, 2022
Test window: Between January 14, 2022 and February 3, 2022
 

Happy116

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Mar 9, 2017
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How much time does it take from BGC Completed to Test Invite? I mean what are the typical time lines based on our excel sheet tracking?
Thanks in advance.
Even I would like to know the timeframes! Ours is a paper application, BGC for wife completed on Nov 5th, I needed to submit my FP and BGC was completed on Nov 15th. No updates since!

But glad to know it’s moving and folks are getting the invites.
 

shubham710

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Nov 21, 2013
188
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Toronto
Visa Office......
chandigarh
Job Offer........
Yes
Interview........
waived
VISA ISSUED...
4 December 2013
LANDED..........
19 December 2013
Update!!!
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Type: Online Application
Location: Richmond Hill, ON
Physical Presence Days: 1,135
Application: Single
Application sent: May 12, 2021
Delivered: May 12, 2021
AOR: Aug 31, 2021
Background Check Completed: Dec 22, 2021
Citizenship test (In Progress) Jan 7, 2022
Test window: Between January 14, 2022 and February 3, 2022
Congrats! May I know the IRCC office sending this test invite? It should be in the subject line of your test invite email.
I wonder if they are sending these tests in batches. I got my test from Niagra Falls office for Dec 24 to Jan 13 and now you got Jan 14 to Feb 3 and so on.
 

singcan

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May 1, 2021
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Even I would like to know the timeframes! Ours is a paper application, BGC for wife completed on Nov 5th, I needed to submit my FP and BGC was completed on Nov 15th. No updates since!

But glad to know it’s moving and folks are getting the invites.
It took 50 days for me to get a test invite from the day my BGC got completed.
 
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newcitiz911

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Jan 11, 2022
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You're Lucky i've been waiting for my test invite since my BGC completed in September 2021. Montreal Office is sleeping......
Application sent: May 3 2021
Application Received: May 10 2021
AOR: August 13
BGC completed: September 23
Location Montreal
 

disp.31089

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Jun 6, 2017
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Category........
FSW
These are the averages for May 2021 applicants so far. The excel tracker is extremely helpful for this. Scroll to the right to see averages on the column headers.

Delivered to AOR - 103
AOR to IP - 18
IP to Test invite - 86
Test Invite to Test - 9
Test to Decision Made - 28
DM to Oath Letter - 22
Oath Letter to Oath Ceremony - 16
Processing Days till today - 241
Application Complete in Days - 257

Link - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iXCMs0mYtJZwYTTIH3LDmHK1tgK7yqAgQ5Jfyxv7BEI/edit#gid=270862106

Hopefully this helps.

Note 1: What is also helpful towards the end stages is your location. For example, if you see folks from 'Mississauga' getting test invites 90 days after In process status in ECAS, you can expect similar timelines for yourself.
Note 2: I personally feel the AOR to IP average is skewed since a lot of folks consider In Process Status in Application Tracker as In Process Status in ECAS, which is not the same. Then again, online applicants don't have ECAS access. Please take that into consideration while looking at averages.
 
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newcitiz911

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Jan 11, 2022
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You're Lucky i've been waiting for my test invite since my BGC completed in September 2021. Montreal Office is sleeping......
Application sent: May 3 2021
Application Received: May 10 2021
AOR: August 13
BGC completed: September 23
Location Montreal
The problem that we can do anything, we have to wait till someone pickup the application and start working on it. its so frustrating, they don't care about our wait or our application we are a number for them paying taxes without getting in return a decent service.
 
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