cov-canuck

That's permanent residency, not citizenship - VERY different things.

capillano

I am surprised that your application took only 6 months. Did you apply for Skilled Worker Program or a different one.

Mine took 3yrs to process! yes in London UK!

Could it be the long queues have dried up and not many people in the UK are keen on moving to Canada due to lack of job prospects here and a higher cost of living compared to the UK.

Mike Gas

Just received notice that we have are tests on 4 August

stepnek

I took my test this morning and had the ceremony this afternoon in Ottawa. So nice to have it all wrapped up on the same day.

I must say that I'm feeling all rather pleased with myself this evening. I'm a Canadian citizen!

ann m

Congrats Stephen, eh?

Tuppence

Wow that's good, congrats. Here (NS) you seem to have to wait about five months after the test, before you gate a ceremony date.

stepnek

Thanks Ann. And you know what? I didn't hear that word mentioned once in the ceremony. I was very disappointed!

As an aside it was quite fascinating to hear the judge mention that the 60 applicants yesterday came from 31 different countries.

stepnek

Thank you.

I applied along with my daughter and half way through the process she moved to Edmonton. She had her test about two months ago and I thought that she was going to beat me to it. But alas she's still waiting for the ceremony so is a little ticked off at me right now.

Tuppence

I'm sure our provincial move is going to bugger us up too. Hubby goes to Ontario this weekend, and it's been 13 months since we applied, so I'm fully expecting a letter in today's mail telling us to sit our tests in two weeks time in Halifax.

Atlantic Xpat

On his own? You wanna watch him. He'll be carousing with dbd, Nov et al. It'll sure to end in tears.

Tuppence

Yeah, on his own until I get my finger out and get a job, or the house sells. I don't envy his 20 hour drive to get there, but at least we are flying the cats up and he doesn't have those (or a toddler) in the back all the way moaning

dbd33

I doubt that he'll have time, what with all that pounding up and down the Gardiner, but he has only to mention "beer".

Novocastrian

I wondered why you were posting on this thread.

SAW is more than welcome to carousals over beer any time. As indeed Tuppence will be when she gets here. Good luck with rest of the move.

Tuppence

Thanks so much. Hopefully we will all be there very soon

bananahammock

Assimilation complete ... we found out today we passed our Citizenship tests, (ceremony in just under 2 weeks) I know most peeps on here say it's easy but I had a couple of questions I didn't have a clue about ~ s'pose that's what I get for knowing the online test back to front, but not studying the book woohooo for us tho eh? It's been a bit of a slog to say the least!!