November 2023 - Citizenship Applications
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I was in the same boat and was told by the frustrated official who interviewed me that the mistakes are being made by new employees.
My sister and I applied for our citizenships at the same time and hers was processed within 3 months, granted that she has been a PR for 30 years and I, only 2.5 years. I was asked to submit colour photocopy pages of my 2 passports which I promptly did. Two days later, I received an email that my test results were suspect and I had to re-do it. Then, they scheduled an interview for me.
During the interview, they informed me that a new employee had mistakenly emailed a couple of people (including me) to re-do their tests because of suspicious activity. I had spent the last 4 days studying for the test and so I was pretty pissed (but laughed it off because I wanted my application processed asap). I was then informed that I had not indicated my day visit to the Bellingham, USA. Apparently, they have info on when we leave the country but not when we come back. They assumed that I was not being truthful about the days I was out of the country. After it was all sorted, the very professional and competent interviewer said he would approve my citizenship. He apologised for the delay and inconvenience. I received my citizenship 3 days later.
Hope this eases your anxiety. It's likely an issue on their end which can be easily resolved with an interview. I hope they reschedule it asap. Best of luck.
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Yes, the situation is a bit frustrating. Could I ask you a couple of questions?
-When did you receive the invitation for your first interview, and when was the second one?
-Did they contact you a few days before your first interview, or how did you find out it was canceled?
Thank you very much for your good wishes!
Hello, I got an update today. LPP complete July 17th and received oathtaking email today as well.
1. I received an email saying that I would have to do a re-test because they suspected suspicious activity. Two days later I received an email telling me that I was also invited for an interview. There was no second interview because it was resolved in the first interview. During the interview, I was informed that the re-test notification was sent in error by a new inexperienced employee. I had to explain to the interviewer that I was not aware that I had to write down the details of my day trips; this was the cause of the delay in granting me the citizenship because they thought I was not being truthful about the days I had left the country. It turns out that they have info about me leaving the country but not coming back so they had no idea if it was a day trip or longer. Anyway, the interview helped to resolve the issue.
2. My first interview was not cancelled.
So I applied for citizenship thru online, so I apply for adult for myself then I applied for my son who's 17 years form 5(2). I received my oath taking letter from email and will do on August 22. But on my sons application still in progress no update. Does it mean he will not do the oath taking with me? Does he need to wait for his letter of oath taking? Please help me , any idea what's going on on his application, I tried to call IRCC numerous time but no luck.
Same here. No any updates after the citizenship test and background in Feb 2024. Lpp is still in progress.