Travel after oath.
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It depends on your current citizenship.
If your home country accept the dual citizenship you'll be ok. Just bring your citizenship certificate with you to enter back in Canada.
If your home country doesn't accept dual citizenship, I'm afraid that you'll have to postpone to get a Canadian passport since you cannot travel anymore with the old one.
If your home country accept the dual citizenship you'll be ok. Just bring your citizenship certificate with you to enter back in Canada.
If your home country doesn't accept dual citizenship, I'm afraid that you'll have to postpone to get a Canadian passport since you cannot travel anymore with the old one.
It states on CIC website that your certificate is not a valid travel document. You need a PR card or a Passport to enter back into Canada. You will have to surrender your PR card and it is not possible to get the passport done that soon even on rush. It takes at least 2-3 business days for them to enter your citizenship confirmation, only then you can apply for the passport. Although, I have heard if you are crossing border by road, you can use your landing paper to get back in, but please confirm this by calling them directly if you plan to go by road. Otherwise, you will have to wait till you get your passport.omonyja said:
Here is the link:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/citizenship/cit-ceremony.asp
Maybe my response wasn't clear. I didn't say that you have to use your certificate to travel, but if you have access to dual citizenship, you'll be able to use your home country passport to travel. The certificate is only to explain at the border that you are now canadian but you didn't had the time to get a passport (i.e. to prove your status in Canada).omonyja said:
Yes, I understand and I would be confident that it won't be a problem to enter the US or to drive back into Canada, but I will be flying... and from what I know, the airline will not accept a citizenship certificate as proof that I have permission to enter Canada.Icebergmoma said:
Just to add a noTe:
My wife had her oath on Thursday, and while she was checking in the officer asked if she was travelling within the next two weeks. She said NO because she is not travelling.
May be there is some kind of temporary traveling document they provide if you have a trip booked right after the oath or they return the PR card until you come back from the trip and exchange it for the certificate after or something. I don't know, but it may be worth it to call them and ask before cancelling your trip.
My wife had her oath on Thursday, and while she was checking in the officer asked if she was travelling within the next two weeks. She said NO because she is not travelling.
May be there is some kind of temporary traveling document they provide if you have a trip booked right after the oath or they return the PR card until you come back from the trip and exchange it for the certificate after or something. I don't know, but it may be worth it to call them and ask before cancelling your trip.
Based on what I've been reading on this issue, you would be able to fly to US using your other passport and VISA, but most definitely you wouldn't be able to fly back do Canada unless you have a multiple entries Canadian visa there (what you probably don't).omonyja said:
Looks like the reasoning behind this is: you are a Canadian now. And as a Canadian, you have the responsibility (as all other Canadians) to have your official international traveling document (passport). If you don't, you cannot travel.
It's just like any other country. You were born there, you are a citizen. But if you don't have passport, no travelling for you.
Just in case anyone was wondering, I took the oath of Citizenship on Wednesday (November 18) and I am now a Canadian (feels good to say that)...
I asked if I would be able to make the trip and I was told that if I was able to get to any Canadian port of entry, as a citizen, I would be allowed to enter Canada. However, he could not confirm that I would be able to board a plane without and if I made the trip, it would be, "at my own risk."
He did say that I had the option to keep my PR card but warned me that it meant that I would not become a Canadian that day as it was "illegal" for Canadian citizens to hold a PR card. I asked when I would become a citizen if I went ahead and took back my PR card and he said he did not know. At that point, I thanked him, texted my friend to let her know I would not be at her wedding and went forward with the oath.
I asked if I would be able to make the trip and I was told that if I was able to get to any Canadian port of entry, as a citizen, I would be allowed to enter Canada. However, he could not confirm that I would be able to board a plane without and if I made the trip, it would be, "at my own risk."
He did say that I had the option to keep my PR card but warned me that it meant that I would not become a Canadian that day as it was "illegal" for Canadian citizens to hold a PR card. I asked when I would become a citizen if I went ahead and took back my PR card and he said he did not know. At that point, I thanked him, texted my friend to let her know I would not be at her wedding and went forward with the oath.
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You can get the passport done on same day (urgent process) but they charge alot of money for that. I know few people who got it same day.