Time to Citizenship after PR?
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Time to Citizenship after PR?
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?
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?
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Re: Time to Citizenship after PR?
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?
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?
HTH.
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Re: Time to Citizenship after PR?
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.
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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?
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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?
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?
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?
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Re: Time to Citizenship after PR?
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?
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?
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?
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All the calculators still quote 4 years etc
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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,
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,
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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.
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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
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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
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
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Re: Time to Citizenship after PR?
The thought of dealing with the CIC is filling me with dread again.....
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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,
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
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
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Re: Time to Citizenship after PR?
*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.......
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.......