Today I'm answering a question about citizenship test.
Sometimes we have clients that have qualified for citizenship, they have met the residency
requirement of 4 years out of 6 in Canada.
But they get, let's say a job posting abroad and they choose, after they've applied for
citizenship, they choose to travel for a few months, or sometimes for 6 months, or a year
to another country on a work permit.
Or they go abroad and they study.
What happens is that at some point they will get a request for citizenship test if they
are in the age category to under go the test.
And they have to travel back to take the citizenship test.
And then after that, once the citizenship test has been passed you can get called in
for an interview, or you can get called in to take the citizenship oath, it's a ceremony
which you have to attend if you want to become a citizen.
Now if you don't come to your test, if you can't come to your test.
You are allowed to reschedule it.
And if you can't come to your oath ceremony, you can send a request to reschedule it.
However, you can't do that many times.
And I've seen some cases where if you do exceed a certain number of times you can get a refusal
of your citizenship application or an abandonment of your application.
So I really, what I recommend is that if you have applied for citizenship, the idea is
that you want to live in Canada.
And that's what immigration wants to see.
So if you're now living outside (Canada) and you can't come back or it's becoming a problem
to come back to take the test or to take the oath or to attend an interview.
It also doesn't look very good if you have to see an immigration officer.
And I've seen some cases where even people that have met the number of days, they've
had an interview and the officer can ask, where have you been living in the last 6 months
or the last year or the last two years.
And if the applicant says well I've been posted in France on a work permit or I'm studying
in Singapore, I've seen some officers actually refuse applications even though the residency
requirement was met because they might think that there might have been a lie on the application.
And they feel that the person doesn't actually have an intention to really live in Canada
and be a Canadian.
So I would really recommend that if you've applied for citizenship, you try as much as
possible to live in Canada.
To establish yourself in Canada to have your roots in Canada because Canada is where you've
chosen to live permanently.
If you do have to reschedule, I would say to do that only in exceptional circumstances.
You also have to make sure that when you submit that request you provide a good explanation.
If you just say that you can't make it, and you want to reschedule it on the long run,
if there's other problems that happened with your file that's not going to look very good.
But if for some reason, let's say for example: You have a family member that's sick or there
was an emergency situation that you couldn't get on a flight or what ever the reason it
is, make sure you prepare a good explanation because that's going to stay on your file.
And at the end, when your applications going to be processed and officer is going to have
access to all of that information.
So that's the answer with respect to attending a citizenship test or a citizenship oath ceremony.
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