Scarborough -DM-Oath
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Me too, I have a lot of things planned for Canada day.Before Canada Day is certainly better...one could use that day off to do something else, like cross the border to "try out" the brand new Canadian passport
To add to your point, people are comparing their process to other Canadian offices with significantly applications. If you look at the immigrant population of the GTA compared to any other part of Canada you will understand why it will definitely take much longer here. We need to learn to manage our expectations truly.
Lets get the Oath invite first and then we'll manage our expectations
Thanks for sharing this information, I checked the link and noticed that while Mississauga scheduled 9 ceremonies , Scarborough 6 and Toronto 1 in May, Calgary alone has 23 ceremonies and Vancouver 16. I am beginning to wonder how all these other offices are able to have this many oath ceremonies while the GTA is having far less. The problem may be resource distribution. GTA may not be receiving resources equivalent to the number of people they serve. CIC should know that equality is not the same as equity, equity is what is needed in this instance as the application numbers are not the same. Funding and resources should reflect the number of applications being processed by an office. They should try to be equitable.
Your post is at the very least misleading.
Firstly, offices have been notoriously inconsistent in what is posted for ceremonies, so this listing should not be used as any sort of barometer.
Secondly, compare apples to apples. Calgary is showing oaths scheduled through June. They only have two sessions per week. Scarborough has a minimum of 4 most weeks with the occasional Toronto oath ceremony at HMCS York.
So I guess if you had a customer that placed an order with you, was told and accepted that the order would take a specified amount of time, and then called you lazy because it wasn’t done in half that time.... is the customer being reasonable?Its funny how some people think that Scarborough office is working hard!.
There are 10’s of thousands of applicants processed at any given time through that office. Don’t call people lazy just because you don’t have reasonable expectations.
Lets say you took your car to the body shop, and were told it takes a month to get it ready, you pass by a week later and see the body repairs and paint is done..but the bodyshop owner tells you the last step remaining is to wash the car and polish it, that will take 3 weeks so come back later.
This is the part which i (and maybe others) are not happy about. If it takes 3-4 months to get to DM thats 90% of the work done already....it doesn't make much sense to have to wait 6-9 months for the car polish (oath), we need to get rollin' man
The only point you are missing here is that people are getting uneasy because they see applications around them moving faster. Consider Donald Duck, SpiceIsland.. as per the sheet, Donald Duck is the only person from July who is still waiting (from the list of people who are entered in the sheet. there may be others from July who are still waiting, but we dont know). and when he sees October applicants from the same office getting invites, he has every reason to be pissed off. its not about the 12 month timeline. its about being fair towards everyone. if everyone is getting the invite in their 12th month, then i would agree. i dont have any issues waiting till my 12th month. i can plan my vacations easily. everyone's situation is different.
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Again, i am sticking to my point. Mississauga is also in GTA and i am sure that office also covers equal area as Scarborough. Just because my address falls in Scarborough zone, i am assigned to this office and waiting. If i were assigned to Mississauga, i would have completed my ceremony long back. People have their own reasons for being frustrated with the wait. we cannot generalize it. i have a vacation coming up in mid june and i dont know if i can go or if i need to push it .. my dates have been informed at work, so how much of a flexibility will i have to change my dates.. ticket prices keep increasing day by day.. so many things going on in my mind.. i am sure most of us have some reasons.. we need to respect that.