Hi All
After 4 1/2years I got my citizenship today in Missi. Judge Sniegowski presided the Ceremony. Here is a brief summary of my case:
CIC Office: Mississauga
Recieved by mail: May 2009
Online Status: Nov 2009
Recieved ACK: Nov 2009
Proces Start: Feb 2010
Transf May 2010
Test Nov 18 2010
RQ Dec 2010
RQ papers received in mail April 2011 (after 4 recommended letters sent to CIC)
RQ trasf St Clair Nov 2012
Oath Oct 2013
Here is my looong saga....
- after 1 1/2 year since submission I got my test invitation letter in Missi, as far as I remember I answered (both me and my wife) to all questions correct (100%) from test and successfully passed in Nov 2010 (based on ATIP report). On the test day at docs checkup day along with my passports I had ready with me the Canada Border and US border travel reports just in case I will be asked abt it.
- I had few same day travels to Niagara and 10000 Islands, no big deal. Both me and my wife start working 2nd week of our relocation to Missi...and been a full time workers since very beginning.
- We have a house, no kids and a pretty stable situation here.
On the day test my wife filled the on the employment history a looong list of courses and schools she attended here along with the full time employee. Since we applied we've been pretty solid prepared with all docs, car rentals agreements from US and other countries, hotel receipts, plane tickets just in case. I was carefully take due diligence to ask for Canada Border and US border travel reports from time to be ready on test day. The clerk did not even look on our passport stamps, was most likely too lazy to decrypt the forest stamps from my passp. I worked for some time in US few years BEFORE entering in Canada also in some other countries Africa, Europe, South America....my passp was filled with old stamps, however my wife's passp was pretty clean, few stamps in US from vacations, and a month in our home country due some emergency death of one of our family members. The death certificate of that family member who passed away back in 2006 was submitted along with application to avoid problems. I had abt 30 days of absence and my wife abt 60, all absences were pretty well documented.
Now here come the surprise. After 2 months since test date I just doublecheck with CIC call center and surprise...they said I had and RQ and it was mailed some time in Dec. I asked the CIC call center op to re-sent coz I did not get anything. After another month...nothing....I asked again the call center op to re-sent and sent a recommended letter to CIC explaining the problem...nothing. So back in April 2011 I hired an immigration lawyer. She submitted immediately a letter to CIC in Missi...nothing...than lawyer sent a letter some Senior Judge...finally...bingo...after 6 months I got the RQ forms, so I had to ask 4 TIMES in letters and requests to get that bloody RQ forms...shame to clerks in Missi for their dirty jobs. I still keep all recommended letters I had to sent to CIC to get my RQ.
I have to say hiring a lawyer is a good idea to stay safe, some sort of extra protection, this guys from Missi at least they play very dirty...my case was a very solid one, our only fault was that I want to spent my vacations in some hot and humid environment back south. I don't want to make advertising to Tabitha from Mamann but without her I probably was still lost in line, honestly after so many dirty tactics from CIC I felt that money spent for lawyer were wisely spent. In the meantime I ordered some fresh new Canada and US border travel reports....I think every year since submitting the RQ I re-submit via my lawyer a fresh reports. She was escalating with CIC my case every 3 or 6 months...last time she got from Missi (mentioned in ATIP the correspondence with lawyer) the RQ duration is 48 Months!!!! what??? every time you call or sent letters you get another answer...so you can realize is a mess over there....nobody knows a real answer how long it takes just to check some bloody dam papers...what a shame...what a shame
Based on ATIP since May 2011 to Dec 2012 my file was sitting in Missi, nobody even touched it, luckily in Nov 2012 was transferred to St Clair and I have to admit that guys were moving pretty fast, back in May 2013 they renewed my clearances, in June was transferred in shelf for review, July 2013 was assessed and Aug 2013 Judge granted my Citizenship and beginning of Sept was transferred back to Missi. So today I got the Ceremony.
Few observations that I remember at test day back in 2010...the lady that was checking stamps in the passport did not had any clue how to read a US Border travel report...she was looking on that paper trying to decrypt messages from USBP, at the end she asked a colleague to look into it, non of them there had a proper training to check travel docs, just gambling and guessing . I am wondering now with e-passports in most of European countries what they gonna do? No more stamps in EU, but that's another story
Thanks to all and gonna still keep on eye here to look for my old buddies from 2009 Anno Domini. Jeez... I feel soon we'll start talking in decades in processing citizenship...hope to be wrong
After 4 1/2years I got my citizenship today in Missi. Judge Sniegowski presided the Ceremony. Here is a brief summary of my case:
CIC Office: Mississauga
Recieved by mail: May 2009
Online Status: Nov 2009
Recieved ACK: Nov 2009
Proces Start: Feb 2010
Transf May 2010
Test Nov 18 2010
RQ Dec 2010
RQ papers received in mail April 2011 (after 4 recommended letters sent to CIC)
RQ trasf St Clair Nov 2012
Oath Oct 2013
Here is my looong saga....
- after 1 1/2 year since submission I got my test invitation letter in Missi, as far as I remember I answered (both me and my wife) to all questions correct (100%) from test and successfully passed in Nov 2010 (based on ATIP report). On the test day at docs checkup day along with my passports I had ready with me the Canada Border and US border travel reports just in case I will be asked abt it.
- I had few same day travels to Niagara and 10000 Islands, no big deal. Both me and my wife start working 2nd week of our relocation to Missi...and been a full time workers since very beginning.
- We have a house, no kids and a pretty stable situation here.
On the day test my wife filled the on the employment history a looong list of courses and schools she attended here along with the full time employee. Since we applied we've been pretty solid prepared with all docs, car rentals agreements from US and other countries, hotel receipts, plane tickets just in case. I was carefully take due diligence to ask for Canada Border and US border travel reports from time to be ready on test day. The clerk did not even look on our passport stamps, was most likely too lazy to decrypt the forest stamps from my passp. I worked for some time in US few years BEFORE entering in Canada also in some other countries Africa, Europe, South America....my passp was filled with old stamps, however my wife's passp was pretty clean, few stamps in US from vacations, and a month in our home country due some emergency death of one of our family members. The death certificate of that family member who passed away back in 2006 was submitted along with application to avoid problems. I had abt 30 days of absence and my wife abt 60, all absences were pretty well documented.
Now here come the surprise. After 2 months since test date I just doublecheck with CIC call center and surprise...they said I had and RQ and it was mailed some time in Dec. I asked the CIC call center op to re-sent coz I did not get anything. After another month...nothing....I asked again the call center op to re-sent and sent a recommended letter to CIC explaining the problem...nothing. So back in April 2011 I hired an immigration lawyer. She submitted immediately a letter to CIC in Missi...nothing...than lawyer sent a letter some Senior Judge...finally...bingo...after 6 months I got the RQ forms, so I had to ask 4 TIMES in letters and requests to get that bloody RQ forms...shame to clerks in Missi for their dirty jobs. I still keep all recommended letters I had to sent to CIC to get my RQ.
I have to say hiring a lawyer is a good idea to stay safe, some sort of extra protection, this guys from Missi at least they play very dirty...my case was a very solid one, our only fault was that I want to spent my vacations in some hot and humid environment back south. I don't want to make advertising to Tabitha from Mamann but without her I probably was still lost in line, honestly after so many dirty tactics from CIC I felt that money spent for lawyer were wisely spent. In the meantime I ordered some fresh new Canada and US border travel reports....I think every year since submitting the RQ I re-submit via my lawyer a fresh reports. She was escalating with CIC my case every 3 or 6 months...last time she got from Missi (mentioned in ATIP the correspondence with lawyer) the RQ duration is 48 Months!!!! what??? every time you call or sent letters you get another answer...so you can realize is a mess over there....nobody knows a real answer how long it takes just to check some bloody dam papers...what a shame...what a shame
Based on ATIP since May 2011 to Dec 2012 my file was sitting in Missi, nobody even touched it, luckily in Nov 2012 was transferred to St Clair and I have to admit that guys were moving pretty fast, back in May 2013 they renewed my clearances, in June was transferred in shelf for review, July 2013 was assessed and Aug 2013 Judge granted my Citizenship and beginning of Sept was transferred back to Missi. So today I got the Ceremony.
Few observations that I remember at test day back in 2010...the lady that was checking stamps in the passport did not had any clue how to read a US Border travel report...she was looking on that paper trying to decrypt messages from USBP, at the end she asked a colleague to look into it, non of them there had a proper training to check travel docs, just gambling and guessing . I am wondering now with e-passports in most of European countries what they gonna do? No more stamps in EU, but that's another story
Thanks to all and gonna still keep on eye here to look for my old buddies from 2009 Anno Domini. Jeez... I feel soon we'll start talking in decades in processing citizenship...hope to be wrong
