energysolutions

Been trying to figure out when I become eligible for Canadian Citizenship and found a calculator after a poke around on here

According to it I need to have had PR for 1460 days before I can apply for citizenship

I came to Canada on 23-9-13 and got PR on 26-9-15 so I can't apply until 30-9-17 at the earliest?

Does this sound correct? Are factors like being out of the country on vacation taken into account?

christmasoompa

That sounds about right, presumably the calculator you're using is the official CIC one? So that should tell you for sure. It's recently changed, used to be 4 year of PR status, now it's less and you can count time before getting PR as well.

Yes, you can't count any time spent outside Canada.

HTH.

Twitcher1958

When we used the CIC calculator a couple of years ago, the first step was date of arrival, PR date etc, which gave the earliest application date, then there was the opportunity to add in vacation outside the country, which altered the date accordingly.

energysolutions

I think I have just found the same calculator, it allowed me to enter vacation dates etc which adjusted the figures accordingly

In the end it gave me a completely different date of October 2019 before I could apply for citizenship

I would swear I was told 2 years when I completed PR - did I imagine that or has it changed?

christmasoompa

It's never been 2 years (at least, not in the past decade or so). It was 3 years, then it went up to 4 years, now it's back down to 3 years.

But only 2 of those have to be as a PR, up to a year of the requirement can be on another status i.e. temp work permit, so maybe that's where you got the 2 years from?

October 2019 seems quite a long time away though if you arrived in 2013 and got PR in 2015, unless you've spent an awful lot of time abroad i.e. on business?

bc2015

The changes have yet to be enacted.

Citizenship Act changes

energysolutions

No, I`ve been here all the while apart from 2 x 14 day visits home to the UK and a brief trip to Tenerife

So if its back down to 3 years I must be pretty close, I will have 2 years of PR in a month or so and 2 years of Temp Work Permit before that

Sounds like I`m pretty much good to go?

energysolutions

Indeed

All the calculators still quote 4 years etc

PMM

Hi

1. To repeat myself, the 3/5 and pre PR credit as non immigrant parts of C-6 have not been enacted as yet, expected in the late fall, so it is still 4/6 years and NO credit for pre-Pr status,

cheeky_monkey

is it..when i came back to Canada In Jan 2017 after being away for 2.5 years i had missed by 70 days being eligible to apply for citizenship so the time started over again..on the cic website calculator it states im eligible for citizenship in Jan 2021 which is 4 years.

energysolutions

Repeat yourself? Isn't this the first time you have posted in this thread?

Anyways, if the new rules are coming in the late fall they will apply to me too and if/when that happens, by my calculations, I will be eligible to apply straight away so talking about the old rules is kinda academic at that point

bc2015

Yes pretty much. However there will be a huge surge of applications when the rules do change so I expect application processing times to go up.

energysolutions

Makes sense, so what sort of time scale does a Citizenship application take now?

The thought of dealing with the CIC is filling me with dread again.....

PMM

HI

1, Posted the same information about 10 times in various threads, look at the thread on "Citizenship calculator not working" that one is above this one,

energysolutions

*Resurrection*

I looked into this again today and it seems I now can apply for Citizenship (ran my numbers through the calculator)

I`m having a problem however getting the necessary form (CIT 0002) online as the link seems broken (I'm sent here - clicky) - this is what I see (I have tried from 3 different computers and a phone, updated to the latest Adobe etc which is what it directs you to do)



Is there somewhere else I can get this form? As usual every time I come into contact with the CIC it doesn't run smoothly.......