Tina

Dear experts,

I immigrated to Canada 3 years ago and have been out of Canada for a
period of 21 days during the last 3 years. Now I want to apply for
citizenship.

My friend told me, the rule of 1095 days is not that strict and I can
send my application 21 days earlier. But could it cause any problem?

I do not want any delay. Do I face with the possibility that the
immigration officer will send back my application or it will cause any
delay because I sent it 21 days earlier? I will calculate the 3 weeks
that I was out of Canada in my application form but are immigration
officers flexible to ignore my short travel? or I will face the
certain possibility of sending back my application or other possible
delays?

Thank you in advance.

Andrew Miller

It will cause problems - read the instruction carefully. You must have
accumulated full 1,095 days before applying. Your application may not be
refused, but shortage will cause processing to be delayed by at least few
months as judge will have to assess the situation or by 6 - 8 or so months
if you will be called for a hearing. In any case delay will be substantially
longer than the 21 days shortage you have. Wait another 3 weeks, what's the
hurry?

Nobody

Andrew,
I applied in August 2003 for citizenship. I stayed outside Canada for
approximately 1 month in the preceding 3 years period. To stay in safeside I
waited 2 months before sending the application.

Two weeks ago I had written the citizenship test and on the test day the
officer asked me why I didn't put the absent days calculation in my
application. I showed her my passport and mentioned that I waited 2 months
after the 3 years period. Then she handed me a paper instructing me to
itemize all absent days from Auguest 2001 ( I landed in June 2001) till
present. I diligently completed that form( BTW it was done by a pencil and
signed with pencil).

The exam was a piece of cake. But I'm wondering why she told me to calculate
from August 2001 and why not till August 2003!!!!!!


"Andrew Miller" <> wrote in message
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    > It will cause problems - read the instruction carefully. You must have
    > accumulated full 1,095 days before applying. Your application may not be
    > refused, but shortage will cause processing to be delayed by at least few
    > months as judge will have to assess the situation or by 6 - 8 or so
months
    > if you will be called for a hearing. In any case delay will be
substantially
    > longer than the 21 days shortage you have. Wait another 3 weeks, what's
the
    > hurry?
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    > Andrew P. Miller
    > Authorized Immigration Consultant
    > Registered member of CSIC - ID# 610
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    > "Tina" <> wrote in message
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    > > Dear experts,
    > >
    > > I immigrated to Canada 3 years ago and have been out of Canada for a
    > > period of 21 days during the last 3 years. Now I want to apply for
    > > citizenship.
    > >
    > > My friend told me, the rule of 1095 days is not that strict and I can
    > > send my application 21 days earlier. But could it cause any problem?
    > >
    > > I do not want any delay. Do I face with the possibility that the
    > > immigration officer will send back my application or it will cause any
    > > delay because I sent it 21 days earlier? I will calculate the 3 weeks
    > > that I was out of Canada in my application form but are immigration
    > > officers flexible to ignore my short travel? or I will face the
    > > certain possibility of sending back my application or other possible
    > > delays?
    > >
    > > Thank you in advance.

Andrew Miller

I don't know why - maybe they already found out something during immigration
check and wanted to verify with your own statement.

All absences must be listed in application form anyway - even short, half
day trips to US.

Vilmis

"Andrew Miller" <> wrote in message
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<...>
    > All absences must be listed in application form anyway - even short, half
    > day trips to US.
You want to say if I went from Niagara Falls(Canada) to Niagara Falls(US)
and after couple
hours came back to Canada, I need to mention this in the list of absences
from Canada ?
But what is point ? It will be 0 days anyway.

Andrew Miller

Yes, all absences must be listed. It doesn't matter that some may result in
0 day absence - you put them as 0 days in the column of days of absence, but
they must be listed, period.

Vilmis

"Andrew Miller" <> wrote in message
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    > Yes, all absences must be listed. It doesn't matter that some may result
in
    > 0 day absence - you put them as 0 days in the column of days of absence,
but
    > they must be listed, period.
ok. Right now I am filling the list of absence and skipped that trip to
falls as thought
it is not important, but I can inlude it into the list as it change nothing.

Thanks

Andrew Miller

It changes a lot - it shows that you don't lie in the application. You don't
want to be accused of lying or omitting information, do you?

Vilmis

"Andrew Miller" <> wrote in message
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    > It changes a lot - it shows that you don't lie in the application. You
don't
    > want to be accused of lying or omitting information, do you?
Sure I don't. I just was misleaded because of that 0.
But now all trips are in the list. Thanks.

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in a recent article, Tina () said:

    > My friend told me, the rule of 1095 days is not that strict and I can
    > send my application 21 days earlier. But could it cause any problem?

Your friend is wrong. Your application includes a statement that you
have met the requirements - not that you will soon. Therefore, it will be
rejected because, of course, you do not meet requirements. You can kiss the
$100 application fee goodbye.