Urgent help needed. Citizenship Application.

[IronMT]

Hello forum members,

Thank you for allowing me to post my issue on this forum.

 

[forw.jane]

Hello forum members,

Thank you for allowing me to post my issue on this forum. I appreciated any help/advise provided concerning an issue I have regarding my PR/Citizenship application.

I become a PR in Canada a couple of years ago. It was my lawyer who had prepared and submitted our application for family sponsporship. I am currently eligible to appy for Canadian citizenship. I am already a citizen of two nations which I will declare on my citizenship application for Canada. The only issue is that when I referred to my PR application, I noticed that my lawyer did not list both my citizenships and to the best of my recollection, she did not ask me if I had other citizenships/status elsewhere before submitting. My wife and I had hired her for we were not familiar on how to complete and submit all those form for PR properly.

So my worry is , now that I will declare both, will this cause complications with my application for citizenship?

Please advise, greatly appreciative to everyone!

Kind regards,

IRCC would know about one of your citizenship as you would have got COPR against it. Am I right?
Also was it the case that you had to submit PCC for both citizenship but you submitted only for one during your PR?

 

[forw.jane]

Hi,
Yes at the time we had hired a lawyer to applying for us through family sponsorship for PR. She never asked me if I had any other citizenships and only asked for the passport I used to enter the country. So to answer your question; Yes only one citizenship was declared at the time for PR.

You can take opinion of a lawyer(a new one) again or declare everything in your citizenship application and explain the situation using "Letter of explanation".
I would suggest you use option 1 as I am not sure of the negative repercussions of point 2. Will let other experts chime in or anyone who faced this.