please help this(abandment of citizenship application)

[dchunn]

I applied citizenship application in 2009.
I finished test and finger print and residence questionire and so on.
I am waiting ceremony. However, I got abandonment of citizenship application letter on Dec.3,2014
(Your application has been deemed abandoned for one of the following reasons.
CIC ha not heard .....) In fact, I followed everything step by step...I never signed any withdrawal form of citizenship application...

When I called call center, they told me they would contact St. Claire office(local office) about some error. and requested me to call call center agency in 2-3 weeks.

I do not understand how public servant (CIC officer) is working ..

What options do I have? If they close my case like this even I have no problem in obtaining citizenship.

Please advise this.

Many Thanks

 

[dpenabill]

Not enough information to fully understand why CIC has taken this action or what recourse you may have.

This is usually about a failure to respond to a request for information or documentation, or a failure to appear for a scheduled event, including the oath. A common cause for this is the failure to receive mail from CIC, for various reasons.

You have a limited amount of time within which to formally explain your position.

New procedures are now in force, and the termination of the application by the Minister is summary, no hearing necessary.

Obtaining the assistance of a lawyer is probably your best course of action, but in the meantime you should do your best to figure out what it is that CIC says you missed, and why, and submit a WRITTEN letter clearly explaining your side of the story, and specifically requesting CIC to process the application. Keep it simple. Keep it direct. And follow-up the letter by getting a lawyer's help.

If you missed mail or a notice from CIC because you were not at the address you last gave to CIC, or because you were traveling abroad and did not get the letter or notice in time, it is likely you will NOT be able to get application processing re-instated.

 

[era1521]

big dilemma here. sending a new application which these days takes around 6mts or fighting to get the initial application resumed and that could take you another 5yrs lost in system. but like above said there must be something more in your story.

 

[DAN11]

The letter you received should indicate the reason or reasons why they say you abandon the citizenship - You mentioned someone about "not heard" which seems like the sent you a letter requesting something and they never hard from you. If they call center rep told you that they need to contact the st. Clair office due to errors made. The call center should have told you why and what are those errors. So you have not given us much information to understand your case.

 

[dpenabill]

Additional note: As another mentioned, one alternative is to re-apply. And of course if the application has been terminated and you do not manage to get CIC to re-instate it, that would be your only course of action to become a citizen.

That is not necessarily the best alternative if it is still possible to have this application re-instated. The reason for this is that the abandonment of a citizenship application is almost certainly still one of the triage criteria which will trigger RQ in the next application (we are not certain what the triage criteria currently are, but it is a safe bet that a previously abandoned application is still part of the triage criteria - - for obvious reasons, since CIC is likely to infer that some disqualification, or otherwise living abroad, was underlying the abandonment). Moreover, many of the concerns that were haunting your first application may very well be revisited in the next application, leading to protracted processing, elevated scrutiny, CIC skepticism, and so on.