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Old Feb 1st 2017, 1:33 pm
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I dont know why I am so excited but we just received our email from CIC confirming that they have received our Citizenship application.
Its been a long time since we last received anything from them or waited for anything from them and its taken me right back to that time.


So, after much procrastination on our part we are finally on our way to leaping that final hurdle.
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Old Feb 1st 2017, 2:06 pm
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congratulations to you all

BTW, not knowing how it all works - have you done the citizenship test yet?
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Old Feb 1st 2017, 2:23 pm
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Good luck and pre-emptive welcome to the Citizenship club
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Old Feb 1st 2017, 3:38 pm
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Originally Posted by not2old
congratulations to you all

BTW, not knowing how it all works - have you done the citizenship test yet?
Thank you. Not yet.
You fill in the paperwork printed from the website, complete your calculation of presence test (you complete all dates and destinations outside of the US in the time since receiving PR), print this and attach (for adults).
Pay the fee online and print the receipt. Get the right photos (Costco are pros at this) Mail it all off (we did this last week) and await the email to say its received. Now we wait for a call to write the test.
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Originally Posted by Tangram
Good luck and pre-emptive welcome to the Citizenship club

Thank you! I hope we past the friggin test...
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Old Feb 1st 2017, 3:40 pm
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Thank you! I hope we past the friggin test...
I mean PASS (as in current tense)
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Old Feb 1st 2017, 4:25 pm
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Originally Posted by Howefamily
Thank you! I hope we past the friggin test...
You will, its not difficult, but you have to read up on it, they will send you a booklet with all the information you need to know about Canada, much of it you will know already, but there are the more historic questions that can catch you out.

That said I took the British citizenship test and failed it! lol. There were a lot of what appeared to me stupid irrelevant questions on it that didnt really pertain to the UK!

Anyway that aside good luck with it all!
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Well done. You always strike me as someone happy with becoming Canadian, rather than gaining the citizenship as a kind of convenience / backup.
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Old Feb 1st 2017, 5:07 pm
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You will, its not difficult, but you have to read up on it, they will send you a booklet with all the information you need to know about Canada, much of it you will know already, but there are the more historic questions that can catch you out.

That said I took the British citizenship test and failed it! lol. There were a lot of what appeared to me stupid irrelevant questions on it that didnt really pertain to the UK!

Anyway that aside good luck with it all!
The test is risibly easy. I aced it back in 2005. I tried the official practice test a few weeks ago, without revising. Pretty much aced that one too. I really have no idea how someone with basic reading skills and some form of memory cannot pass it.
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The test is risibly easy. I aced it back in 2005. I tried the official practice test a few weeks ago, without revising. Pretty much aced that one too. I really have no idea how someone with basic reading skills and some form of memory cannot pass it.
I agree, and as I said, if you have lived here for 5 years or so before hand you will already know a lot of it anyway without even reading about it.
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Originally Posted by Shard
Well done. You always strike me as someone happy with becoming Canadian, rather than gaining the citizenship as a kind of convenience / backup.
I sent off for the 'study' book as soon as we bought our house, so about 6 months after getting PR. I was disappointed when nothing happened about the change in how long it would take after JT was elected. But now we are at the point where we could apply next year. This seems close, and I have started to have a very small, niggling doubt about becoming a citizen, and I'm not at all sure why.

Good luck Howefamily!
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Old Feb 1st 2017, 5:35 pm
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Howe exited are you really
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Old Feb 1st 2017, 5:49 pm
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It IS exciting. I was surprised at how emotional the ceremony was for me too.
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Old Feb 1st 2017, 6:00 pm
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me too, not solely for me , but there were a lot of people at our ceremony who were from politically unstable countries. I can't imagine what the concept of having citizenship in a country where you are free to travel, vote or even just step out of the door without being harassed. A place where a knock on the front door is more likely to be a neighbor with a crate of beer as opposed to the secret police coming to drag you away, feels like
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Old Feb 1st 2017, 6:11 pm
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For me it was not exiting, maybe more relieved I had got this far, being from a first world country like the UK it was just another step in the whole process of making Canada my home. Having citizenship just ment I didn't have to keep applying for PR.

I guess that anyone from a less privileged country would have been more exited than I was.

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