Hi Folks,
I am an Indian citizen married to a U.S. citizen. We both arrived in Canada in 2015, attended graduate school, got PGWP and later both of us got our Canadian PRs. We landed in May 2018. My wife went back to U.S. a month after that for ~7 months from June 2018 - Jan 2019, as we had applied for U.S. green card for me. I did get the immigrant visa to US (did not land in the US to convert it to the green card, hence I never held a US green card) but we decided not to go to the US, so my wife came back to Canada and took up a job. We are both now working in Canada.
I have been reading up on this forum and looks like if you have any unusual history you might get a RQ. Here are my questions:
1. Given our history, if we apply for citizenship together after comfortably meeting the residency requirements (jobs to prove that we were really living in Canada), what are our odds of getting RQ or any other delay in citizenship processing?
2. My understanding is that this is how the process works -
Citizenship application -> interview -> <all delays like RQ happen here> -> denial/approval
Is my understanding correct?
3. What are the common delays that usually happen during citizenship applications?
4. What are the current average timelines for various types of delays that usually happen as per 3 above.
Inviting @dpenabill and @Jaroddz to answer.
I am an Indian citizen married to a U.S. citizen. We both arrived in Canada in 2015, attended graduate school, got PGWP and later both of us got our Canadian PRs. We landed in May 2018. My wife went back to U.S. a month after that for ~7 months from June 2018 - Jan 2019, as we had applied for U.S. green card for me. I did get the immigrant visa to US (did not land in the US to convert it to the green card, hence I never held a US green card) but we decided not to go to the US, so my wife came back to Canada and took up a job. We are both now working in Canada.
I have been reading up on this forum and looks like if you have any unusual history you might get a RQ. Here are my questions:
1. Given our history, if we apply for citizenship together after comfortably meeting the residency requirements (jobs to prove that we were really living in Canada), what are our odds of getting RQ or any other delay in citizenship processing?
2. My understanding is that this is how the process works -
Citizenship application -> interview -> <all delays like RQ happen here> -> denial/approval
Is my understanding correct?
3. What are the common delays that usually happen during citizenship applications?
4. What are the current average timelines for various types of delays that usually happen as per 3 above.
Inviting @dpenabill and @Jaroddz to answer.
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