Hi all,
I'm wondering if anyone knows whether it is possible to submit citizenship application and then leave Canada temporary for work in another country (for a couple of years) with the intention of moving back to Canada after your work outside Canada is done? If yes, what would you answer to the question of citizenship official (interviewer) after citizenship test regarding these two things:
1) Show me your intention to live in Canada?
2) Is the address on your application, your current address? You can only inform them of change of your address (during the processing time) if your new address is in Canada and if it is outside Canada, probably you should not inform them as they might stop the processing of your application (not sure if this is the case, please correct me).
In general would be ok for the interviewer after citizenship test if one work temporarily outside Canada during application process but later on move back to Canada?
I also wonder, would be any interview in the oath ceremony as well?
Predicting the questions that will be asked in the interview reminds me of a children's game and a poem:
"That tells of Winters Tales and Mirth,
That Milk-Maids make about the hearth,
Of Christmas sports, the Wassell-boule,
That tost up, after Fox-i' th' hole:
Of Blind-man-buffe, and of the care
That young men have to shooe the Mare"
Emphasis on blind man's bluff, even if "bluff" is, to pun, misleading, whatever "buffe" meant in the days of Herrick.
That noted, among questions the least likely to be asked is "Show me your intention to live in Canada?" That is not how IRCC or CBSA approach things.
While the form of your second question is also not likely the way it would be asked, sure, there is a fair prospect that some questions might be asked which either directly or indirectly call for you to affirm your current address or current employer or such.
The gist of it is you are correct, the application calls for the applicant to declare the place, the address, where the applicant actually lives.
This is not like using the address of a family member or friend when getting a library card, dealing with a bank or prospective employers. More than a few approach it this way. They do so at their peril.
The applicant affirms (see signature block in the application form) that the applicant will promptly notify IRCC if any of the information given in the application changes. If where the applicant is actually living changes, the applicant is required to
promptly notify IRCC of that change.
More than a few fail to do so, some all-too-typically deliberately. They do so at their peril. That is misrepresentation by omission.
Whatever questions are asked, whatever background checking IRCC does along the way, the odds do not favour those who play games with their address, or otherwise. Odds being about probabilities, not definitive outcomes, how it actually goes varies. A few seem proud to brag about getting away with this or that. The others tend to become bitter critics of the Canadian immigration system.
To be clear:
". . . if your new address . . . is outside Canada, probably you should not inform them . . ."
No, the
should in the legal sense (as in stay out jail and such sense) is to inform IRCC.
But sure, the
should is not-to-inform if you want to deceive IRCC and hope to not get caught and to sail smoothly to the oath ceremony without RQ or delay.
Or, one could always play tag wearing a blindfold.
That said, other than still requiring applicants to affirm their intent to continue to reside in Canada in the application itself, there is little sign that IRCC does much if anything to follow-up on this
current but soon (probably)
to be removed requirement.
Nonetheless, historically
applying-on-the-way-to-the-airport has long tended to add some wrinkles to the process, even when this had no direct relationship to qualification, going back to long before the Harper government added the intent to continue to reside in Canada provision.
In contrast, more than a few who were indeed abroad for an overtly temporary reason (school more typical than employment) did not encounter problems or delays.
In other words, the variables are many. It is prudent to remember that credibility is not technically a requirement, but it can loom very, very large. Way too many tend to think of the process like dealing with a vending machine, you put in the right amount of coins, you get a certificate of citizenship. And they overlook the possibility a citizenship officer will be checking LinkedIn accounts not just for the applicant, but perhaps for any LinkedIn account with a similar name. Among other angles.
