Seeking advice

[Emmett]

Hi everyone,

Our family got Permanent residency status in 2018. We stayed inside Canada and qualified for Citizenship application in 2020. We submitted our application June 2020. We got email about file received in December 2020. We went to Asia in 2021 and took the online Citizenship test in Asia (we also noticed Canada government about our absence and Canada government said ok and just go ahead to take the test). We passed the test in October 2021. We came back Canada early 2022. We got email from Canada government asking to submit our travel docs as proof of our return to Canada and We sent them our boarding pass as a proof. Since then, there is nothing else. it is almost 2 years since we applied. Any suggestions? We are based in Vancouver. We are thinking of going to see our Member of Parliament to help us.

 

[Dreamlad]

Hi everyone,

Our family got Permanent residency status in 2018. We stayed inside Canada and qualified for Citizenship application in 2020. We submitted our application June 2020. We got email about file received in December 2020. We went to Asia in 2021 and took the online Citizenship test in Asia (we also noticed Canada government about our absence and Canada government said ok and just go ahead to take the test). We passed the test in October 2021. We came back Canada early 2022. We got email from Canada government asking to submit our travel docs as proof of our return to Canada and We sent them our boarding pass as a proof. Since then, there is nothing else. it is almost 2 years since we applied. Any suggestions? We are based in Vancouver. We are thinking of going to see our Member of Parliament to help us.

Same timeline. Going back would not speed up our application...

 

[scylla]

Hi everyone,

Our family got Permanent residency status in 2018. We stayed inside Canada and qualified for Citizenship application in 2020. We submitted our application June 2020. We got email about file received in December 2020. We went to Asia in 2021 and took the online Citizenship test in Asia (we also noticed Canada government about our absence and Canada government said ok and just go ahead to take the test). We passed the test in October 2021. We came back Canada early 2022. We got email from Canada government asking to submit our travel docs as proof of our return to Canada and We sent them our boarding pass as a proof. Since then, there is nothing else. it is almost 2 years since we applied. Any suggestions? We are based in Vancouver. We are thinking of going to see our Member of Parliament to help us.

These are normal timelines. Estimated processing time is 27 months right now.

 

[wksj]

These are normal timelines. Estimated processing time is 27 months right now.

It is normal only if you believe the IRCC's lies and excuses. There are people who receive citizenship in 6 months without urgent processing.

 

[dpenabill]

Hi everyone,

Our family got Permanent residency status in 2018. We stayed inside Canada and qualified for Citizenship application in 2020. We submitted our application June 2020. We got email about file received in December 2020. We went to Asia in 2021 and took the online Citizenship test in Asia (we also noticed Canada government about our absence and Canada government said ok and just go ahead to take the test). We passed the test in October 2021. We came back Canada early 2022. We got email from Canada government asking to submit our travel docs as proof of our return to Canada and We sent them our boarding pass as a proof. Since then, there is nothing else. it is almost 2 years since we applied. Any suggestions? We are based in Vancouver. We are thinking of going to see our Member of Parliament to help us.

Since you are back in Canada, as @scylla suggested you are probably within typical processing timelines. Which currently continues to be inordinately long even for the most routinely processed applications. Since you received a request for additional documents, that takes processing your application outside "routine processing." But that in itself should not be cause for much of a delay beyond that many others are suffering.

Contrary to post by @Dreamlad, the fact you are back in Canada could, and probably does make a difference, potentially a big difference, in how quickly the process proceeds from here. (It appears that @Dreamlad is among those who confuse how they believe things should work, in regards to applicants outside Canada, for how things actually work, leading at least @Dreamlad to "wanna hit the wall with [their] head until [they] bleed out," which rather aptly illustrates how sensible that approach is.)

I would qualify the observation by @scylla slightly: IRCC does not say that the "estimated processing time is 27 months right now." The 27 month processing time posted by IRCC is about "how long it took [IRCC] to process most complete applications in the past." Contrary to the derision from @wksj there is no hint this information is lies or excuses.

The timeline for individuals has always varied widely, ranging from just six months, to around a year for many, to a couple years plus some for many non-routine applications, to eight, ten, or more years for some. For the recent past, it has taken just over two years for MOST applicants. Those encountering non-routine processing, which includes you, tend to see a longer timeline than "most," but as I noted, now that you are back in Canada and have provided the documents requested, your application should be back in the mainstream of processing and unless IRCC has concerns about some aspect of your qualifications, there should be minimal further delays going forward . . . noting that can still take a significant amount of time.

You can always contact your MP for assistance. But at this stage just waiting a while longer to see what happens next, being patient, is probably going to get you to the oath around the same time either way.