CIC Citizenship timelines
#931
Re: CIC Citizenship timelines
18 out of 20 on the exam. Glad I studied on the weekend as if I had just bowled in I'd have probably got about 13/14 and leaving the rest to guessing.
I'm fairly certain I got a question wrong on Canada's highest mountain. I couldn't tell you the other question I got wrong.
The good news is at the interview they gave me a letter to go back and do the Oath next Tuesday. So just about finished now.
Last edited by JamesM; Sep 22nd 2014 at 7:09 pm.
#932
Re: CIC Citizenship timelines
Done and dusted.
18 out of 20 on the exam. Glad I studied on the weekend as if I had just bowled in I'd have probably got about 13/14 and leaving the rest to guessing.
I'm fairly certain I got a question wrong on Canada's highest mountain. I couldn't tell you the other question I got wrong.
The good news is at the interview they gave me a letter to go back and do the Oath next Tuesday. So just about finished now.
18 out of 20 on the exam. Glad I studied on the weekend as if I had just bowled in I'd have probably got about 13/14 and leaving the rest to guessing.
I'm fairly certain I got a question wrong on Canada's highest mountain. I couldn't tell you the other question I got wrong.
The good news is at the interview they gave me a letter to go back and do the Oath next Tuesday. So just about finished now.
#933
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Joined: Mar 2010
Location: Red Deer, AB
Posts: 217
Re: CIC Citizenship timelines
Just got an update online... Test on the morning of October 8th, oath in the afternoon. Don't know where yet, and none of the Alberta locations have a citizenship ceremony listed for that date. Will have to see what the letter says. I think I applied a year ago today, so that's faster than I was expecting.
Time to start cramming!
Time to start cramming!
#934
Re: CIC Citizenship timelines
Just spoke to my MP. Looks like CIC are insistent on pushing my application to their max processing time. 4 years! Sad times! My application will hit 4 years of processing in December!
#937
Britnadian
Joined: Dec 2008
Location: North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Posts: 238
Re: CIC Citizenship timelines
I just received my Notice to Take the Oath!! 20th October is my date... just over a year since I first applied.... despite getting both fingerprints and a residence questionnaire!
HORRAY!
(full timeline coming)
HORRAY!
(full timeline coming)
#939
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Joined: Mar 2011
Location: Halifax Nova Scotia
Posts: 136
Re: CIC Citizenship timelines
I'm beginning to think the long wait times are just a Nova Scotia thing?
#940
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Joined: Dec 2008
Location: North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Posts: 238
Re: CIC Citizenship timelines
OK, went back through the scanned documents and here is my timeline:
All dates are dates from the letters unless stated (add 5 days usually for them to arrive)
All dates are dates from the letters unless stated (add 5 days usually for them to arrive)
- 3rd July 2009 - Arrived in Canada on a work permit... later went through BC Provincial Nominee Program
- 5th May 2011 - Crossed the border at Peace Arch to become a Permanent Resident
- [The time between then] - Ran the Residence Calculator a few times with all my holidays/trips away to work out when I could send the application: https://eservices.cic.gc.ca/rescalc/resCalcStartNew.do
- 2nd October 2013 - Sent Citizenship Application to CIC Sydney ('s address)
- 21st January 2014 - Acknowledgement Letter from CIC Sydney with Client ID and Discover Canada study book, but I think this arrived in the mailbox on 20th February. (By chance, I called on 17th February to find out my file number as I had heard nothing)
- 26th March 2014 - Request for Fingerprints from CIC Vancouver
- 4th April 2014 - Fingerprints taken at Commissionaires BC
- 10th June 2014 - Test Notice
- 2nd July 2014 - Citizenship Test passed. During the document check afterwards, they asked why I was in the airport in January 2010... wracked my brain but suddenly remembered a weekend trip to LA that hadn't been included on the Residence Calculation. Residence Questionnaire received (in person), and a very helpful CIC person said I should send it back to his attention.
- 6th August 2014 - Residence Questionnaire sent to CIC Vancouver. Lots of help from both BE and here in finding where to pull all the required documents like health records and records of movement (hint: http://i94.cbp.dhs.gov for USA border crossings). The Canada Border Services Agency and UK Border Agency (since renamed to UK Visas & Immigration) Data Protection Act Request Responses had not arrived before the RQ had to be sent.
- Still 6th August 2014 - I get home to find the CBSA records in my mail box. I know the CIC have them (I was requesting them so I could match up every record)
- 11th August 2014 - Sent the CBSA records to CIC Vancouver anyway
- 9th September 2014 - The UK Border Crossing Records arrive in the mailbox, the letter the sent is dated 20th August, and the report attached to them was run on 19th July...
- 11th September 2014 - Sent UK Border Crossing Records to CIC Vancouver
- 14th September 2014 - Clarification phone call from CIC Vancouver, wondering why they have an eTicket for a flight but no sign of it on the border records. I had just forfeited that flight, it was cheaper to buy a return ticket than a single, and mentioned that I had done so in the cover notes.
- 20th September 2014 - Oath Notice letter sent by CIC Vancouver
- 25th September 2014 - Oath Notice letter received by me!
- 20th October 2014 - I will take the Oath!!!!
Last edited by hpka; Sep 26th 2014 at 5:06 pm. Reason: Fixed list and bolded major events
#941
BE Enthusiast
Joined: Nov 2007
Location: Abbotsford, BC
Posts: 450
Re: CIC Citizenship timelines
Hi hpka,
did the UK border service agency have all the information of your flights? I contacted them and they said they only capture about 50% of flights in and out of the UK.
Did you post your residence questionnaire of before your UK entrance documents?
thanks Scott
did the UK border service agency have all the information of your flights? I contacted them and they said they only capture about 50% of flights in and out of the UK.
Did you post your residence questionnaire of before your UK entrance documents?
thanks Scott
#942
Britnadian
Joined: Dec 2008
Location: North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Posts: 238
Re: CIC Citizenship timelines
Hi hpka,
did the UK border service agency have all the information of your flights? I contacted them and they said they only capture about 50% of flights in and out of the UK.
Did you post your residence questionnaire of before your UK entrance documents?
thanks Scott
did the UK border service agency have all the information of your flights? I contacted them and they said they only capture about 50% of flights in and out of the UK.
Did you post your residence questionnaire of before your UK entrance documents?
thanks Scott
The cover letter had the same warning, but all of my trips were there.
#943
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Joined: Nov 2007
Location: Abbotsford, BC
Posts: 450
Re: CIC Citizenship timelines
that's good news, Mines a little more complicated as some of my trips were in 2009. The letter I received said they only keep records for 5 years. So nothing before Sept 2009 with be there! Did the UK letter have entrance and exit information?
all the best for your ceremony.
all the best for your ceremony.
#944
Britnadian
Joined: Dec 2008
Location: North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Posts: 238
Re: CIC Citizenship timelines
It did give the limits of data retention and reasons etc. I sent a copy of everything I received to the CIC, so they could see it too. Seemed to work.
Last edited by hpka; Sep 26th 2014 at 10:08 pm.
#945
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Joined: Mar 2010
Location: Red Deer, AB
Posts: 217
Re: CIC Citizenship timelines
All done, under 13 months from submittal to ceremony. Test was in the morning (20/20 ), with the ceremony in the afternoon. Was very impressed by the clerk - out of 93 names, she only stumbled on two, both the same, very Dutch, surname...