Earlier than – A everlasting resident (PR) who needs to use for a Canadian Citizenship must fulfill the residency requirement of 4 out of 6 years. Which means, the applicant must be in Canada for a complete of 4 years inside a interval of 6 years.
On Fall 2017 – The adjustments within the Citizenship Act contains the discount of time a everlasting resident have to be bodily current in Canada to three out of 5 years earlier than making use of for citizenship.
Making use of for Citizenship on November
We have been anticipating to use for citizenship on our 4th yr in Canada. Fortuitously, this excellent news from the federal government gave us hopes on having it earlier *fingers crossed*.
If no adjustments on the date of the effectivity, we might be eligible to use on November 2017. Yay!
There absolutely be a variety of candidates for citizenship so we have now to organize our paperwork forward.
A number of the necessities can be found readily available. There might be no IELTS for each of us due to our credentials. To use for the citizenship, we want a proof of language proficiency.
At the least certainly one of these paperwork.
1. Outcomes of an accepted third-party check on the equal of Canadian Language Benchmark (CLB/NCLC) / Niveaux de compétence linguistique canadiens
2. Proof of completion of a secondary or post-secondary program performed in French or English, both in Canada or overseas
3. Proof of reaching Canadian Language Benchmark/Niveaux de compétence linguistique canadiens (CLB/NCLC)
Now we have the #2 proof, which is the proof of completion of post-secondary program overseas. Which means, no extra exams on English proficiency for me and my spouse. One other Yay!
However, there may be one check that we have to write. It is the information check on how effectively we find out about Canada. It is for candidates 18-54 years previous.
Preparation for Citizenship Utility 2017
The vital issues that we have to put together, apart from the exams and paperwork above, are the charges and the police clearance.
For the charges, we have now to organize a complete of C$1, 460 based mostly on the present regulation. The breakdown is $630 for me + $630 for my spouse and $100 for every baby, and that is $200 for the 2. These are the charges as of this writing, I am unsure if they’ll change it in our favour.
Then again, it is required for applicant to submit a police clearance if we stayed greater than 183 days outdoors Canada. If they won’t change the variety of years previous to software, I must submit a police clearance from Singapore and my spouse from Philippines.
This isn’t a straightforward factor to do, we have to contact buddies for help in each nations. We’ll cross the bridge once we get there.
Updates on our Citizenship Utility
I made a membership web site for Me Transferring To Canada (MM2C Neighborhood) and readers must register to achieve entry to it.
In there, I will be posting each step in getting our citizenship. That features pictures and I am considering of movies too…let’s examine.
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