Lorna_D

Jeez, don't get me started on that

Thanks for the information.

Rrunner

Timeline for Rural Ontario, file transferred to Scarborough
Application for citizenship: march 2012
Started processing: oct 2012
Received notice for test: dec 2012
Test date: jan 2013

adele

We have similar timescales - they received my application on April 5, 2012 and started processing my application on December 17, 2012.

I got my study book a few weeks after I applied.

danfolkestone

I received a letter in the post this morning, requiring me to submit fingerprints within 60 days. Apparently, I share my name with someone who committed a serious crime and is either in prison, has been in prison or is on probation.

Has anyone else here been in a similar situation? The CIC website says that it will delay my application by 8-12 months, but I wondered if anyone had a real life experience to confirm that timeline.

Very frustrated at the moment, of course. Not only do i now have to jump through another set of hoops and pay another $85 for fingerprints, but the delay will also mean that my ESTA and PR card will both expire before I get citizenship, so I'll have more running around to do later this year.

I also find it hard to understand why I've never been stopped at the border. I flew back from England on Friday, with no questions asked at all. They simply scanned my PR card and welcomed me back to Canada. Do they do the same for all hardened criminals?!

MarkG

Took less than two months from being fingerprinted to getting my test. I even know who they keep confusing me with because I read about him and his crime in a Readers' Digest at the hairdresser one day.

I did go for the electronic option, so that may well explain the difference in timeline when compared to the old ink fingerprints. I think they said the electronic checks normally result in a yes/no answer within two weeks.

danfolkestone

I found old posts in the forum, from people who have been in a similar situation. It seems that this won't cause anything like the 8-12 months' delay that CIC claim, which is a relief!

danfolkestone

Thanks Mark, that's good to hear.

bats

That's interesting. We applied in March 2012, started processing Oct 2012. Nothing for us yet, Is the rural ontario descriptor yours or officialdom's? We live in a village but not miles from anywhere. Have not had any notice about our file being transferred to Scarborough.
Wonder how long ourc wait will be.

Rrunner

The rural Ontario description is mine, we are up the 400 about 10 miles from Barrie on the lake.
I can't remember if the file transfer info was from officialdom or picked up from the news or the cic website as the Barrie office was closed after I applied.
Speaking to others I know in the same process but not in this area, my timeline is the fastest I have come across.
Hopefully yours will move fast too. I assumed my file would go to the last of a long list ring having been transferred to a large centre, but apparently not.

bats

Thanks, we'll just have to wait and see. Annoying as our first application was lost.

dr.rehm91

Hi Im wondering if my case is going fast or not so if anyone can tell me what to expect next that would be very helpful. i live in nova scotia

received application Sept. 25th 2012
sent letter and booklet sept. 25th 2012
started processing my application Jan. 14th 2013 (Halifax)

4 months! fast or not? i cant wait to get it because i want to join the military this year hopefully

Lorna_D

Forms and payment sent 12 March 2012
Letter and booklet sent to us dated 4 April 2012
20 Jan 2013 Just checked the CIC site and our status is still on received.

The site says 21 months wait. There seems to be inconstancies in the amount of time people have to wait, I wonder exactly what it is the Government wants at this stage that it is going to take 21 months to sort out. They have our payments gaining interest in their account (no matter how low that interest is).

Rrunner

Re. file transfers I remembered now where I saw the info:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resourc...2012/ob431.asp

G77

Can anyone tell me if you have kids that are on the application but do not need to take the test, do they need to attend when you take the test so that they can be visually ID'd against the documents (passport, PR card etc)?

bombards

We went for our test 2 weeks ago and applied as a family application. I too had the same question. Eventually we decided not to take the kids - both in high school with exams approaching!

During my husband's initial interview and then at my interview, we were asked for school reports from every year they were in school. This is in line with the new citizenship application rules, but this was a verbal request and not a written one.( when they send you the test date, you get additional forms explaining that you need copies of certain forms and originals of other stuff)

I explained that I didn't know I had to bring the reports along. The lady interviewing us was lovely and said she would accept the girls current student cards - I actually texted my kids to get the school office to fax them over, so the fax arrived before we left. (My application has taken long enough so didn't want any more delays!!!)

I would take your kids report cards, and passports along to the interview, unless they ask for anything else. You will be in a room for a couple of hours, so if your kids are young, then there is no one to watch them!