minor citizenship: not meet PR residence but recieve oath letter

[laecanada]

Hi, a child under 10 applied for citizenship with one parent and both received the letter of oath now. The child has lived in Canada less than 1 year and PR card expired. Is it possible that the parent can apply for child's citizenship certification and then apply for child's passport later?
If immigration officer see child's expired maple card after the adult's oath, will minor's PR be revoked and won't be issued certificate of citizenship because he doesn't meet PR residence obligation?
FYI. There is RQ and all information are declared truthfully including living abroad for extensive time.
Thank you.

 

[Leon]

A PR card expiring doesn't mean you are no longer PR. Children do not need to meet the RO to apply for citizenship as long as they are on a parents application who does. However, in order to get citizenship, your PR status must not be in question but if they had an RQ and the truth was told and nobody is worried about the child not meeting the RO and they both got a letter of oath, then there is no problem.

If the child is currently in Canada, they could both attend the oath, hand over their PR cards and get citizenship. If the child is not in Canada, a child age 10 does is not necessarily required to attend the oath but immigration may want the child's PR card all the same. In order to become a citizen, you should return your PR card. Hence the parent should bring the child's expired PR card to the oath, get the child's citizenship certificate and apply for the child's Canadian passport afterwards.

 

[laecanada]

Leon, you are right. We are so happy. Child got certificate. God bless Canada!