bogazici10 said:this is my timeline guys, my office is Scarborough center
We received your application for Canadian citizenship (grant of citizenship) on May 10, 2012.
We sent you a letter acknowledging receipt of your application(s), and a study book called Discover Canada on May 10, 2012. Please consider delays in mail delivery before contacting us.
We started processing your application on October 25, 2012.
We sent you a notice on January 16, 2014 to appear and write the citizenship test on February 7, 2014 at 8:30 AM. The notice you will receive by mail will be your official confirmation of your appointment. If you have not received this notice prior to the date of your scheduled appointment, please contact us.
Received: May 10, 2012
Process application: Oct 25, 2012
Residence questionnaire: Nov 30, 2012
Residence questionnaire sent: January 9, 2013
Fingerprint Request: January 24, 2013
Fingerprint sent: February 11, 2013
office: Scarborough
after 21 months i got test date guys....
You will get something this weekCool_5 said:Hi All,
I have also "notice to prepare for citizenship exam dated 20 Dec on 8 Jan 2014, but till date I havent recieved any test date notice.
interesting, did you call cic and ask them if they mailed it out?bogazici10 said:hello my dear Rq friends,
I did not receive the "Notice to Prepare for the Citizenship Exam" I got just test date,
bye now,
not sure what that GCMS means.But when I called CIC and asked them, they said the RQ docs were received and waiting to be reviewed. not sure how long that takes. But a lot of people I saw who had submitted their RQ docs after me got their test dates and I did not. What do you think my estimated timeline would be? My signature has details the steps for my application. Any idea?mattias said:hey i found this. according to this OB407, RQ has to be reviewed in order for the test invitation to be sent!?!?
Local offices will be required to review the RQ and supporting documents prior to inviting the applicant to their test/interview with a Citizenship official. This means that there is a risk that files where an RQ is still outstanding may be inadvertently scheduled into a test event in GCMS. In order to avoid this scenario, CPC-S will use the "On-Hold" feature in GCMS prior to sending the application to the local office. Once the RQ and supporting documents are received at the local CIC and analysed by an officer, the On-Hold feature will be deactivated manually by a CIC official and the applicant invited to their test/interview. Users are encouraged to use the BF function to follow-up on these cases within 45 days. Note: The use of the "On-Hold" in GCMS does not necessarily mean that the processing of the file has stopped. It is simply an interim tool to be used until changes can be made in GCMS to prevent files where RQ has not yet been received from being scheduled into a test event.
i think GCMS is their general case management system.BalajiR said:not sure what that GCMS means.But when I called CIC and asked them, they said the RQ docs were received and waiting to be reviewed. not sure how long that takes. But a lot of people I saw who had submitted their RQ docs after me got their test dates and I did not. What do you think my estimated timeline would be? My signature has details the steps for my application. Any idea?