Reasonable explanation for missing oath ceremony

[FAS]

Hi, I missed my oath ceremony because i am travelling overseas with my wife and kids to attend my wife's brother wedding. I wrote explanation letter to CIC local office within 30 days of the ceremony date as directed by CIC agent and as mentioned in the invitation letter. I am anxious will this be considered reasonable explanation to miss the oath and will they reschedule as I requested in my letter to them? I'd appreciate if people could share their experience and any tips. thanks.
FAS

 

[Lux et Veritas]

Hi, I missed my oath ceremony because i am travelling overseas with my wife and kids to attend my wife's brother wedding. I wrote explanation letter to CIC local office within 30 days of the ceremony date as directed by CIC agent and as mentioned in the invitation letter. I am anxious will this be considered reasonable explanation to miss the oath and will they reschedule as I requested in my letter to them? I'd appreciate if people could share their experience and any tips. thanks.
FAS

To be honest that is one very lame excuse: if I were the officer I wouldn't accept not showing up for a citizenship oath to attend a wedding. Health issues would be the only excuse I would consider. In the end, they will reschedule but there may be a delay.

 

[dpenabill]

Hi, I missed my oath ceremony because i am travelling overseas with my wife and kids to attend my wife's brother wedding. I wrote explanation letter to CIC local office within 30 days of the ceremony date as directed by CIC agent and as mentioned in the invitation letter. I am anxious will this be considered reasonable explanation to miss the oath and will they reschedule as I requested in my letter to them? I'd appreciate if people could share their experience and any tips. thanks.
FAS

I responded to the underlying query in another topic; see (partially quoted):

There are two Program Delivery Instructions (PDIs) which are particularly relevant to this situation:

Oath of Citizenship, found here:
this is link to PDI regarding Oath

Procedure: Abandonment, found here:
this is a link to PDI regarding the abandonment of citizenship applications; this PDI covers a range of circumstances which may result in abandonment procedures, ranging from failure to appear for a test on second notice to failure to provide supporting documents on second notice, and including failure to appear at the citizenship ceremony upon first notice.

Note, abandonment (resulting in termination of citizenship application) for failing to appear at the oath ceremony is automatic unless the applicant notifies CIC (PDIs are not updated to reflect change in name to IRCC) "within 30 days from the date of their event." And "Applicants must provide a reasonable excuse for not being able to attend their event."

I tend to disagree with the observation by Lux et Veritas, but as I noted in my longer post in the other topic, I am no expert, and I am not qualified to give personal advice, and how IRCC will approach specific cases now is currently largely a guess.

In any event, my sense is that the key factor is the extent to which it is apparent the applicant was traveling abroad for a temporary purpose, for a short duration, and infrequently.