Reschedule the citizenship test otherwise lose job

[Smile_Canada]

The company is not worth working for if they treat you like that however they can be creative in their reasoning to letting you go other than "you attending a citizenship test". After all applying for citizenship is a choice not a requirement. Because one of the duties of canadian citizen is to vote in elections, the employer legally cannot prevent an employee from voting. However there is no requirement or duty for PR to apply for citizenship thus it is considered a choice.

I think lot of miscommunication is going on, my understanding is he said he had to travel during exact same dates of Test. May be company has important conference in some other city or country, or some important business deal. No company is going to change conference date or business deals because an employee has citizenship test or oath. And this employee could be working/preparing for exact opportunity for months. It could be matter of Multi thousands or million dollars. I don't think company denied him day off, its just coincidence or his bad luck that his travel dates and test dates are clashing.

Even if you have to travel for business during election days you have to travel. Its not illegal for company to deny day off for test/oath because CIC gives option of rescheduling. Its not the case that if he can't attend test for some reason he will be denied citizenship. If that was case then it was different story all together.

 

[rampager]

I think lot of miscommunication is going on, my understanding is he said he had to travel during exact same dates of Test. May be company has important conference in some other city or country, or some important business deal. No company is going to change conference date or business deals because an employee has citizenship test or oath. And this employee could be working/preparing for exact opportunity for months. It could be matter of Multi thousands or million dollars. I don't think company denied him day off, its just coincidence or his bad luck that his travel dates and test dates are clashing.

Even if you have to travel for business during election days you have to travel. Its not illegal for company to deny day off for test/oath because CIC gives option of rescheduling. Its not the case that if he can't attend test for some reason he will be denied citizenship. If that was case then it was different story all together.

Yup. They wanted me to lead a project for almost a year and I kept saying no because according to ATIP, my test was scheduled anytime before Canada Day last year. It came and went and nothing happened and so I said yes and the week before I going to travel, boom, update on E-CAS and I get the letter in the mail. Since I'm the project lead and have to be abroad to start the project, backing down makes me look pretty bad, and reflects poorly on my firm. Not travelling for a year and then agreeing to travel and then backing out...oh well. In any case it's already done.

I'm just trying to figure out when will the test happen again. ATIP says:

"CPA reviewed information on November 13th, 2014. Applicant defaulted for test on July 2X 2014. Correspondence received from applicant with explanation for default. Applicant has been referred to a Final Notice Test. DMS".

Apparently I defaulted even though I sent the information before the test happened, and it took them 4 months to review.

 

[screech339]

Yup. They wanted me to lead a project for almost a year and I kept saying no because according to ATIP, my test was scheduled anytime before Canada Day last year. It came and went and nothing happened and so I said yes and the week before I going to travel, boom, update on E-CAS and I get the letter in the mail. Since I'm the project lead and have to be abroad to start the project, backing down makes me look pretty bad, and reflects poorly on my firm. Not travelling for a year and then agreeing to travel and then backing out...oh well. In any case it's already done.

I'm just trying to figure out when will the test happen again. ATIP says:

"CPA reviewed information on November 13th, 2014. Applicant defaulted for test on July 2X 2014. Correspondence received from applicant with explanation for default. Applicant has been referred to a Final Notice Test. DMS".

Apparently I defaulted even though I sent the information before the test happened, and it took them 4 months to review.

So getting citizenship is more important than your job. That doesn't reflect well with the company.

You rather turn down good job opportunities within the company all over for qualifying for citizenship.

That's a great employee role model you presented yourself to your company.

 

[paw339]

Don't be too hard on rampager or his company sometimes things can't be changed. I have to travel overseas for work twice a year for one week, the date of which I have no control over and can't be changed. Outside those 2 weeks I am able to have any day off I require. If I'm very unluckly and CIC happen to schedule my test or oath on my single week away every six months then I would also have to reschedule and take the consequences.