Facilities handling serious medical cases, however, employ triage to determine the order in which patients receive care. First come first serve is subordinate to care-priorities. A Canadian citizen will naturally, without prodding, gladly see someone else get care sooner if there is a need. In other words, I disagree, in contrast I would very much appreciate seeing those who need care sooner get care before me, no matter how much earlier I arrived. But of course I have already been a Canadian citizen for more than four years now. Bad influences?
While the reasons are different, more to do with which applications need this or that scrutiny or consideration, citizenship applicants are similarly subject to priority protocols and divergent processing paths. No big deal. Becoming a citizen should not be a race.
During the ceremony at which I took the oath I met several others whose applications took quite a bit less time than mine to process. I was happy to see CIC (again, this was just over four years ago, so it was CIC at the time) making progress in reducing processing timelines, happy to see others reach the oath faster than me. There were a lot of happy people that day. Some had taken a very long time to get invited for the oath. They too were happy, virtually overflowing with happiness. A good day.
Otherwise: There seems to be a pervasive, powerful wave of narcissism sweeping through these days. It is not a promising trend.
In the meantime, the processing timeline varies considerably, from just a few months to a year to more than a year, and historically many, many have endured two, three, even four or more years of processing. While highly unusual, some applications have taken five, six, or seven years. There are many, many reasons why the timeline varies from one applicant to another. Nearly all are legitimate reasons. Sure there are some exceptions. But it is NOT likely variations in the range of a month or four months are due to improper discrimination.
There is nothing wrong or unusual about overlapping activity (work, school) history. For each activity just put the accurate from-date and to-date, a separate line for each activity (for an activity that involves a break over a full calendar month, perhaps more than one line for that activity).
How you order them is largely a personal decision. Most applicants put them in chronological order starting with the most recent. The main thing is to be accurate and to make sure every month of the eligibility period is accounted for (no gaps). No need to overthink these things. IRCC mostly wants to know what you were doing in order to better assess information about WHERE you were.
