Yasmina2005

When you go to check your Citizenship application status:

Please note that under
Identication type category, choose from the list "Client ID Number/Unique Client Identifier"

And under
Identification Number, put you Permanent Card Number which is by the way the same as the Client ID that shows in the Acknowledgment letter.

Hope this helps

Yasmina2005

Still waiting for my results.

Has anyone, who took the test on April 5th, 12 in Vancouver, heard any news?

jonesyp

I had a problem loading up the Check status, until i changed the Place of Birth from United Kingdom to England,

Who'd have know that it would be so simple!

Lorna_D

But I'm not from England

sharkus

A nice present waiting for me in the mail today, a letter asking me to sit my test on the 29th June! Better re-read the booklet again!

MarkG

So I discovered last night that one time when I returned to Canada they didn't stamp my passport.

Any suggestions for what I should take as proof that I came back? I do have the itinerary and some of the boarding passes from that trip, and a credit card bill for that month showing me using the card in Toronto the day I flew back and Saskatoon afterwards.

MarkG

After all that, today was a bit of an anti-climax; no-one asked about my missing passport stamps and I finished the actual test in 90 seconds. I then noticed that I hadn't circled a single answer 'B' so I had to go through five times to check that all the answers were definitely right.

I wouldn't have got fifteen without reading the book, but it seems to me that if you've read it a couple of times then you should at least be able to work out two of the wrong answers and make a good guess at which of the remaining two is correct.

My favorite question was (from memory):

Which of the following are fundamental rights guaranteed by the Canadian Constitution?

A. The right to beat your wife and drive a car with a license.
B. The right to drive a car and own a firearm without a license.
C. Mobility rights and the right to have more than one wife.
D. Something boring about freedom of religion and association.

I'm glad they didn't throw me out for laughing when I read that one .

Novocastrian

How did you discover it? If simply by looking in your passport I doubt it matters.

I think they use things called computers these days.

MarkG

The other day I was checking that the stamps matched the list of trips I sent in and noticed one was missing. They definitely checked the stamps while I was there today and there seems to be some question as to whether they're allowed to verify it themselves through those new-fangled computer gizmos with your list of entry and exit information from CBSA, for privacy reasons.

Tangram

My missus had a question on the little 2cm picture on the inside back cover. I hadn't even looked at the inside of the back cover so when she asked me it I had no clue. It is there though, past all the index pages and blank pages for personal notes. Some guy who did maps or some general I think.

Just because you read the book doesn't mean a few doozies might not come your way.

MarkG

Was that William Logan? I only noticed yesterday that he's on the inside back cover in the book... I was also reading the PDF version which is more up to date and I think he was more prominent in that one .

Tangram

Not sure of his name. Some dude I had never heard of.

G77

If I had a stamp for every time I've entered Canada (mostly day trips, so don't count against citizenship), I'd have needed a new passport by now - must be well in excess of 100 times now... I did try and record them at first, but gave up after the first few dozen....

adele

They can't rely on stamps - when you fly into YVR as a PR you can use the automatic machines so you don't even get a stamp. I haven't had my passport stamped once on returning to Canada since becoming a PR!

sharkus

How many questions in total are there in the test? I'm curious as I've got mine this coming Friday.

Do they mark the tests while you are there, or do you have to wait until you hear back as to wether you have passed or failed

Oh and to anyone else, what happens if you do fail the test?