Citizenship process
Jun 3rd 2010 | 10:46 am
#31
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Re: Citizenship process
My father (at about age 50) almost failed it (he didn't seem to study the test questions). I recall that his key flub was when the judge asked him 'what was the significance of the most recent holiday here in Canada'. The test was done in early June and we had just had Victoria Day. The judge thought this would be an easy one for him as he is english. In his defence he claimed that Victoria Day was not celebrated in England.
I seem to recall when we took the oath etc, we were the only people of over 100 that had english as a 1st language (taken in Toronto).
I seem to recall when we took the oath etc, we were the only people of over 100 that had english as a 1st language (taken in Toronto).
Jun 3rd 2010 | 11:08 am
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Jun 3rd 2010 | 11:42 am
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Re: Citizenship process
Personally I did much better on the online Canadian citizenship practice test than the British one; mostly because the British test seemed to be primarily about how to claim welfare, which I've never really done.
Jul 5th 2010 | 6:46 am
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Re: Citizenship process
I just visited the CIC website to calculate the number of days of Canadian residency here http://services3.cic.gc.ca/rescalc/rescalcwizard.do
One thing I noticed there are two questions:
A *Enter the date when you first came to Canada to live.
B *Enter the date you became a permanent resident of Canada (see Box 45 on your Record of Landing (IMM 1000), Box 46 on your Confirmation of Permanent Residence (IMM 5292 or IMM 5509) or the back of your Permanent Resident Card).
And the date when you first came to Canada to live (A) must be the same as or before the date you became a permanent resident (B).
What I am not sure is what if you became a PR say in Dec 07 and returned back to your home country and came to live in Canada in July 08. This calculator does not allow this scenario.
It appears the 1095 days start calculating the day you become a PR and not necessarily when you come to live in Canada????
Any comments on when the time starts counting in order to apply for Citizenship and fulfil the 1095 days of residence in a period of 5yrs.
One thing I noticed there are two questions:
A *Enter the date when you first came to Canada to live.
B *Enter the date you became a permanent resident of Canada (see Box 45 on your Record of Landing (IMM 1000), Box 46 on your Confirmation of Permanent Residence (IMM 5292 or IMM 5509) or the back of your Permanent Resident Card).
And the date when you first came to Canada to live (A) must be the same as or before the date you became a permanent resident (B).
What I am not sure is what if you became a PR say in Dec 07 and returned back to your home country and came to live in Canada in July 08. This calculator does not allow this scenario.
It appears the 1095 days start calculating the day you become a PR and not necessarily when you come to live in Canada????
Any comments on when the time starts counting in order to apply for Citizenship and fulfil the 1095 days of residence in a period of 5yrs.
Jul 5th 2010 | 6:50 am
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Re: Citizenship process
I just visited the CIC website to calculate the number of days of Canadian residency here http://services3.cic.gc.ca/rescalc/rescalcwizard.do
One thing I noticed there are two questions:
A *Enter the date when you first came to Canada to live.
B *Enter the date you became a permanent resident of Canada (see Box 45 on your Record of Landing (IMM 1000), Box 46 on your Confirmation of Permanent Residence (IMM 5292 or IMM 5509) or the back of your Permanent Resident Card).
And the date when you first came to Canada to live (A) must be the same as or before the date you became a permanent resident (B).
What I am not sure is what if you became a PR say in Dec 07 and returned back to your home country and came to live in Canada in July 08. This calculator does not allow this scenario.
It appears the 1095 days start calculating the day you become a PR and not necessarily when you come to live in Canada????
Any comments on when the time starts counting in order to apply for Citizenship and fulfil the 1095 days of residence in a period of 5yrs.
One thing I noticed there are two questions:
A *Enter the date when you first came to Canada to live.
B *Enter the date you became a permanent resident of Canada (see Box 45 on your Record of Landing (IMM 1000), Box 46 on your Confirmation of Permanent Residence (IMM 5292 or IMM 5509) or the back of your Permanent Resident Card).
And the date when you first came to Canada to live (A) must be the same as or before the date you became a permanent resident (B).
What I am not sure is what if you became a PR say in Dec 07 and returned back to your home country and came to live in Canada in July 08. This calculator does not allow this scenario.
It appears the 1095 days start calculating the day you become a PR and not necessarily when you come to live in Canada????
Any comments on when the time starts counting in order to apply for Citizenship and fulfil the 1095 days of residence in a period of 5yrs.
In your case as far as the calculator is concerned the date you came to canada and the date you landed are the same, but you need to account for the days your were absent between landing and returning to canada again in July 08. The reason the date you came to canada has to be before or the same as the day you landed is because citizenship takes days in canada before landing as worth half a day each to the required total.
If you had no time in canada before your PR was granted then I would just enter the date you returned to Canada in July 08 as both landing and residence date and see how many days its spits out.
Last edited by iaink; Jul 5th 2010 at 7:40 am.
Jul 5th 2010 | 7:53 am
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Re: Citizenship process
Did you live in canada before your PR?, if not then its just a question of filling in the dates and absences isnt it? In your case you have been here however many days it is since July 08, when you landed isnt relevent to the citizenship calculation as there are no days before PR was granted to calculate as half time?
In your case as far as the calculator is concerned the date you came to canada and the date you landed are the same, but you need to account for the days your were absent between landing and returning to canada again in July 08. The reason the date you came to canada has to be before or the same as the day you landed is because citizenship takes days in canada before landing as worth half a day each to the required total.
If you had no time in canada before your PR was granted then I would just enter the date you returned to Canada in July 08 as both landing and residence date and see how many days its spits out.
In your case as far as the calculator is concerned the date you came to canada and the date you landed are the same, but you need to account for the days your were absent between landing and returning to canada again in July 08. The reason the date you came to canada has to be before or the same as the day you landed is because citizenship takes days in canada before landing as worth half a day each to the required total.
If you had no time in canada before your PR was granted then I would just enter the date you returned to Canada in July 08 as both landing and residence date and see how many days its spits out.
Jul 5th 2010 | 12:58 pm
#37
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Re: Citizenship process
We are hoping to hear sometime end of this month (it does take along time to mark 20 questions).
Jul 5th 2010 | 1:40 pm
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Jul 5th 2010 | 5:37 pm
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Re: Citizenship process
They have changed it now, it is much harder. I think it took me 12 minutes and some people took 25 minutes. I think there are two tests at the moment we took ours 31st May and comparing notes afterwards clearly indicated two different test papers. One easier than the other.
We are hoping to hear sometime end of this month (it does take along time to mark 20 questions).
We are hoping to hear sometime end of this month (it does take along time to mark 20 questions).
I'm almost glad you found the test a bit tough ... thought it was just me being blonde
Jul 10th 2010 | 12:07 am
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Jul 10th 2010 | 5:13 am
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