MOVING AFTER APPLYING CITIZENSHIP

[kayla]

WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU COMPLETE YOUR 1095 DAYS PROPERLY IN CANADA AND APPLY FOR CANADIAN CITIZENSHIP AND THEN MOVE BACK HOME FOR LONG PERIOD. DO YOU HAVE CHANCE OF GETTING YOUR APPLICATION DELAYED? AND IF YES WHAT CONSEQUENCES ONE CAN FACE?

DO U INFORM CIC ABOUT YOUR MOVE?
SHOULD YOU PROVIDE SOME MAILING ADDRESS IN CANADA FOR THE CORRESPONCE?

 

[kemeshia]

My advice is to stay or have an address for your mails in Canada. Did you receive your book or test yet?

 

[Leon]

Moving back home could be a red flag for CIC to pull out your application for an interview and make you prove that you really stayed 1095 days. It can delay your application by years if you are unlucky. Worst case scenario, you would have to move back in order to meet the PR residency obligation of 730 days any 5 year period because if you lose your PR, you can't get citizenship.

You should let CIC know if you move. If you do not let them know and they find out somehow, that would be a further red flag for them that you might also have been living overseas during the 1095 days you said you were in Canada.

 

[kayla]

Thanks for the reply kemeshia, I have not applied for citizenship yet but will be applying next month. Is there a good chance of getting RQ if you leave the country for longer period? What other issues one can face.

Anybody having the same situation or have dealt with it already, please advice ASAP....

 

[kayla]

Hi Leon

Thanks for the reply, by reading your message I understood that after applying its not a good idea to go back but if I live here and go for vacation for 3 months in a year, will there be any issue ? And if you don't mind can you please tell me that if have you seen the same cases like this before?

Thanks

 

[USBR]

Moving back home could be a red flag for CIC to pull out your application for an interview and make you prove that you really stayed 1095 days. It can delay your application by years if you are unlucky. Worst case scenario, you would have to move back in order to meet the PR residency obligation of 730 days any 5 year period because if you lose your PR, you can't get citizenship.

You should let CIC know if you move. If you do not let them know and they find out somehow, that would be a further red flag for them that you might also have been living overseas during the 1095 days you said you were in Canada.

I agree with Leon that moving back home could be a red flag, but nothing stops you of moving back home if you have valid reason and if you can explain to CIC why you had to move back home.

I also don't see a need to contact CIC as long as you already have a good friends or family address on your application before you send it to CIC as your mailing address in Canada. CIC is more interested to know if you are receiving the mailing communication and if you move and do not contact them with you new mailing address you will lose all deadlines. Also, if you in fact lived in Canada for 1095 days you should have ways to prove your presence by showing them things like taxes filling, bank statements, leasing agreements, etc.
This is just my opinion.

 

[EasyRider]

You should let CIC know if you move. If you do not let them know and they find out somehow, that would be a further red flag for them that you might also have been living overseas during the 1095 days you said you were in Canada.

Only if they ask. Anyway, you can't have address outside Canada on file for citizenship application purposes, so there's no contradiction here.

I mean, how this works? You call CIC center and say: "i'm moving abroad"-- and what exactly happens then? How will it help your application?

You also can't have residential or mailing address outside Canada anyway-- CIC system doesn't allow this.

Will they add a note "he called and said he moved from Canada" to file or something? How does it help?

 

[jshahid]

WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU COMPLETE YOUR 1095 DAYS PROPERLY IN CANADA AND APPLY FOR CANADIAN CITIZENSHIP AND THEN MOVE BACK HOME FOR LONG PERIOD. DO YOU HAVE CHANCE OF GETTING YOUR APPLICATION DELAYED? AND IF YES WHAT CONSEQUENCES ONE CAN FACE?

DO U INFORM CIC ABOUT YOUR MOVE?
SHOULD YOU PROVIDE SOME MAILING ADDRESS IN CANADA FOR THE CORRESPONCE?

I know a guy who moved to middle east after applying for his citizenship, he updated the address to his parent's address. Once his time came for test, they send him a letter and he was able to come write the exam. Only drawback was he only had one week to arrange his travel and prepare for test.