We landed as Permanent Residents in September 2007.
They received our application for Canadian citizenship (grant of citizenship) on August 22, 2011.
They sent us a letter acknowledging receipt of our application(s), and a study book called Discover Canada on August 22, 2011.
They started processing our application on June 6, 2012. At this time a Residency Questionnaire was generated for me. I am a stay-at-home mother and our primary residence is in my husband's name only.
They sent us a notice on February 19, 2014 to appear and write the citizenship test on March 5, 2014 at 8:30 AM.
On March 5th we arrived at the Kitchener office at 8:15 for our 8:30 exam. The waiting room was already half full. At exactly 8:30 we were called into the test taking room. Anyone not taking the test had to remain in the waiting room. Empty clipboards were spread out on the seats around the room. We were requested to sit in a chair that had a clipboard on it, not to move the clipboards to different chairs. Members of the same family were requested to sit on opposite sides of the room. We were asked to get out our ID and to place anything else under our chair. We then went up to the front of the room and showed the examiner our ID. He checked us off a list and gave us each a test sheet. Upon returning to our seats, he handed out the test booklets. He explained that all answers were to be marked on our test sheets, not in the booklets. There appeared to be 4 versions of the test, each one in a different coloured book. We had 30 minutes to complete the test. When finished we were to bring the booklet and answer sheet to him and return to the waiting room. He told us we would be interviewed in the order in which we finished. I was the third one finished. The test took me about 5 minutes. I had read the book and taken online practice tests at least twice/day for the week preceding the exam. As part of my studying, anytime I got an answer wrong on a practice test, I wrote the question and correct answer in a notebook, which I also studied.
After waiting for a little while in the waiting room, my husband and I were called into an interview room. We were told that we both got 20 out of 20 on the test. We were asked for our permanent resident cards and the interviewer made copies of those. He wanted to see our original landing documents. He also looked at our passports. He did not want to see any of the documents we had brought with us that pertained to our minor children. We spent maybe 10 minutes with the interviewer and then we were told we would get our invitation to the oath ceremony in 1-3 months.
Our letters inviting us to attend the oath ceremony arrived on April 11th. Our ceremony was scheduled for the morning of April 23rd.
Today my family and I became Canadians. What a happy, happy day.
They received our application for Canadian citizenship (grant of citizenship) on August 22, 2011.
They sent us a letter acknowledging receipt of our application(s), and a study book called Discover Canada on August 22, 2011.
They started processing our application on June 6, 2012. At this time a Residency Questionnaire was generated for me. I am a stay-at-home mother and our primary residence is in my husband's name only.
They sent us a notice on February 19, 2014 to appear and write the citizenship test on March 5, 2014 at 8:30 AM.
On March 5th we arrived at the Kitchener office at 8:15 for our 8:30 exam. The waiting room was already half full. At exactly 8:30 we were called into the test taking room. Anyone not taking the test had to remain in the waiting room. Empty clipboards were spread out on the seats around the room. We were requested to sit in a chair that had a clipboard on it, not to move the clipboards to different chairs. Members of the same family were requested to sit on opposite sides of the room. We were asked to get out our ID and to place anything else under our chair. We then went up to the front of the room and showed the examiner our ID. He checked us off a list and gave us each a test sheet. Upon returning to our seats, he handed out the test booklets. He explained that all answers were to be marked on our test sheets, not in the booklets. There appeared to be 4 versions of the test, each one in a different coloured book. We had 30 minutes to complete the test. When finished we were to bring the booklet and answer sheet to him and return to the waiting room. He told us we would be interviewed in the order in which we finished. I was the third one finished. The test took me about 5 minutes. I had read the book and taken online practice tests at least twice/day for the week preceding the exam. As part of my studying, anytime I got an answer wrong on a practice test, I wrote the question and correct answer in a notebook, which I also studied.
After waiting for a little while in the waiting room, my husband and I were called into an interview room. We were told that we both got 20 out of 20 on the test. We were asked for our permanent resident cards and the interviewer made copies of those. He wanted to see our original landing documents. He also looked at our passports. He did not want to see any of the documents we had brought with us that pertained to our minor children. We spent maybe 10 minutes with the interviewer and then we were told we would get our invitation to the oath ceremony in 1-3 months.
Our letters inviting us to attend the oath ceremony arrived on April 11th. Our ceremony was scheduled for the morning of April 23rd.
Today my family and I became Canadians. What a happy, happy day.
