dnyfyn said:
Hi,
How do you think that travel after application would affect my citizenship application process?
Some people have told me that they were questioned of additional stamps in passport during interview. One of my family friend got a letter asking about travel after they submitted the application?
Generally, travel while the application is pending is
not an issue.
If the trip is planned for longer than two weeks, CIC instructs the applicant to notify CIC. This is largely to avoid being sent a notice or request during that time, that is, to avoid failures to appear for a test or interview or such because the applicant did not timely get notice while traveling.
That said, longer absences abroad, particularly those which CIC might perceive to be periods during which the applicant was residing abroad or working abroad, can trigger elevated scrutiny, RQ, and depending on the particular circumstances, overt doubts and skepticism.
In other words: how CIC perceives post-application absences varies considerably depending on the circumstances, including the nature and reason for any extended absences.
Some use of common-sense helps. For those applicants who have truly settled in Canada and whose travels are typical, for customary holiday or business reasons, relatively brief in duration, such travel will ordinarily not even be noticed by CIC. In contrast, the applicant whose passport shows an absence until just days prior to the test and interview, and who is asked about the trip, and explains he was abroad for three months on a "holiday," can expect some curiosity if not skepticism, since that is as consistent with having a residence abroad and returning just in time for the test as it is with being permanently settled in Canada.
