CIC Citizenship timelines
Mar 17th 2014, 4:42 pm
#766
Nuther day in paradise.ca
Joined: Aug 2008
Location: Ajax, Ontario
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Re: CIC Citizenship timelines
You got the test a month before u applied? That's awesome, how did they know?
I meant:
Mar 18th 2014, 12:12 am
#768
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Joined: Mar 2010
Location: Red Deer, AB
Posts: 217
Re: CIC Citizenship timelines
Got a request for a photocopy of all pages of my passport. I realize in doing so that I was a day out on my residency calculation... Hope petty bureaucracy isn't all it's cracked up to be
Mar 19th 2014, 1:18 am
#769
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Residency calculator problem
Hi Folks,
Apologies if I am posting on the wrong thread. I have a question about the residency calculator (for citizenship). It doesn't seem to calculate days absent prior to being a PR correctly. I believe that it should only take off 0.5 days for each full day absent (the same as it gives 0.5 days for each full day present). Does this mean that sometimes the calculator gives a wrong reading for the physical presence in Canada? How would one approach this with Citizenship and Immigration Canada?
Thank you.
Apologies if I am posting on the wrong thread. I have a question about the residency calculator (for citizenship). It doesn't seem to calculate days absent prior to being a PR correctly. I believe that it should only take off 0.5 days for each full day absent (the same as it gives 0.5 days for each full day present). Does this mean that sometimes the calculator gives a wrong reading for the physical presence in Canada? How would one approach this with Citizenship and Immigration Canada?
Thank you.
Mar 19th 2014, 6:36 am
#770
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: May 2004
Posts: 9,708
Re: Residency calculator problem
Hi
No, it takes a day off, as you were absent for 1 day. It only gives you 1/2 credit for days you were in Canada prior to PR. For example, lets say you had a work permit for 2 years prior to PR. You were absent from Canada for 1 year, the calculator would give you 6 months credit for that 2 years.
Hi Folks,
Apologies if I am posting on the wrong thread. I have a question about the residency calculator (for citizenship). It doesn't seem to calculate days absent prior to being a PR correctly. I believe that it should only take off 0.5 days for each full day absent (the same as it gives 0.5 days for each full day present). Does this mean that sometimes the calculator gives a wrong reading for the physical presence in Canada? How would one approach this with Citizenship and Immigration Canada?
Thank you.
Apologies if I am posting on the wrong thread. I have a question about the residency calculator (for citizenship). It doesn't seem to calculate days absent prior to being a PR correctly. I believe that it should only take off 0.5 days for each full day absent (the same as it gives 0.5 days for each full day present). Does this mean that sometimes the calculator gives a wrong reading for the physical presence in Canada? How would one approach this with Citizenship and Immigration Canada?
Thank you.
Mar 19th 2014, 1:33 pm
#771
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Posts: 17
Language Evidence
Ok. Thanks for clarifying that PMM.
One more question if I may - I saw a post about someone who was applying for citizenship and submitted their secondary school, university and college transcripts as language evidence only to receive a letter saying there was insufficient proof of language skills! I am British and was going to submit a copy of everything I have studied in the UK (a copy of secondary school GCSE's, and all the diplomas and certificates I have studied since then (about 15 in total, one of which is a certification in ESL teaching (English as a second language) as I taught English in Spain for ten years. The information on the Citizenship and Immigration Canada website says that a "Diploma, certificate or transcript of a secondary or post-secondary education, completed in English or French, in Canada or abroad will suffice.
Does anyone know any more on this? MANY THANKS
One more question if I may - I saw a post about someone who was applying for citizenship and submitted their secondary school, university and college transcripts as language evidence only to receive a letter saying there was insufficient proof of language skills! I am British and was going to submit a copy of everything I have studied in the UK (a copy of secondary school GCSE's, and all the diplomas and certificates I have studied since then (about 15 in total, one of which is a certification in ESL teaching (English as a second language) as I taught English in Spain for ten years. The information on the Citizenship and Immigration Canada website says that a "Diploma, certificate or transcript of a secondary or post-secondary education, completed in English or French, in Canada or abroad will suffice.
Does anyone know any more on this? MANY THANKS
Mar 21st 2014, 5:12 am
#772
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Location: Cochrane, Alberta
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Re: CIC Citizenship timelines
We got our Discover Canada book yesterday, applied December 2013.
Poppit.
Poppit.
Mar 21st 2014, 5:34 am
#773
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Joined: Jul 2008
Posts: 156
Re: CIC Citizenship timelines
Wrote my test this afternoon , got 20/20 unbelievable. I so nervous but thank God am done with that.
Mar 21st 2014, 11:36 am
#774
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Re: CIC Citizenship timelines
Congratulations,
Mar 21st 2014, 1:09 pm
#775
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Posts: 156
Re: CIC Citizenship timelines
Thanks. Time line- application sent May 2012, got the booklet June 2012, received residency questionnaire July 2013, citizenship test Mar 2014.
Mar 21st 2014, 4:08 pm
#776
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Location: Halifax Nova Scotia
Posts: 136
Re: CIC Citizenship timelines
Anyone form Nova Scotia got there citizenship test date in the next few months? Seems to be all out west?
Mar 21st 2014, 6:23 pm
#777
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Mar 28th 2014, 4:44 am
#779
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Re: CIC Citizenship timelines
Here is my time line.
1. We received your application for Canadian citizenship (grant of citizenship) on April 5, 2013.
2. We sent you a letter acknowledging receipt of your application(s), and a study book called Discover Canada on April 5, 2013. Please consider delays in mail delivery before contacting us.
3. We started processing your application on June 5, 2013.
4. We sent you a letter on November 14, 2013. If you have not yet provided the information or the requested documents, please do so as soon as possible. Please wait until you receive the letter before sending us additional information, as the letter will outline all information that is required. Please consider delays in mail delivery before contacting us.
The additional info was school transcripts for my son who is Canadian. This was sent of and received by CIC on 30 Dec 2013.
Does my app now become a non routine application, extending the processing time by 12 months..?
1. We received your application for Canadian citizenship (grant of citizenship) on April 5, 2013.
2. We sent you a letter acknowledging receipt of your application(s), and a study book called Discover Canada on April 5, 2013. Please consider delays in mail delivery before contacting us.
3. We started processing your application on June 5, 2013.
4. We sent you a letter on November 14, 2013. If you have not yet provided the information or the requested documents, please do so as soon as possible. Please wait until you receive the letter before sending us additional information, as the letter will outline all information that is required. Please consider delays in mail delivery before contacting us.
The additional info was school transcripts for my son who is Canadian. This was sent of and received by CIC on 30 Dec 2013.
Does my app now become a non routine application, extending the processing time by 12 months..?
Aside from the error on my part of having not sent my sons school transcripts, it took 12 months, pretty damn fast. Would probably have been sooner had I not messed up.
Mar 28th 2014, 6:55 am
#780
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Re: CIC Citizenship timelines
Application acknowledged and received April 20, 2012
Started processing Nov 23, 2012
It did say processing time was 24 or 25mths.
Haven't heard yet, status just shows in process.
Started processing Nov 23, 2012
It did say processing time was 24 or 25mths.
Haven't heard yet, status just shows in process.