June 2020 - Citizenship Application

[TempResident]

Hi All,

I have an update. Received Oath Invitation from Mississauga Office, and will be on August 8. Myself and Children.

I have a doubt, I choose for my children to participate in Oath, As a results they received Oath invitation along with Zoom Id and other details. Do they need to login separately with their Zoom details or Can they join with me?

Thank you rajkamalmohanram ,dpenabill, anton1990 and other members on this forum for their advise and valuble support.

I will keep you posted once the oath is done.
Thank you!

congrats! Can you confirm when you received DM and Oath Letter?

 

[Halcan]

Hello, I've an update

New tracker: Everything updated to completed except Oath.
Old tracker: Decision Made

Thank you

 

[melito]

Hello, I've an update

New tracker: Everything updated to completed except Oath.
Old tracker: Decision Made

Thank you

Hi, could you provide the dates these updates happened?
What is the date in the new tracker?

 

[nathaniel_d]

Your children don’t need to login separately. You can use your login info session for all.

Thank you!

 

[nathaniel_d]

congrats! Can you confirm when you received DM and Oath Letter?

Thank you! June 5 - Decision Made

 

[texanincanada]

Hello everyone! I am creating this thread for those who will apply in June 2020 or those that have already applied, but their application will arrive sometime in June.
This is the link to the 2020 Citizenship online sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1U27V95kWlCVYWB0zye7DvqoXSkyqxgbA31eEJ_TKO6Y/edit
Best of luck to everyone

Update from my tracker:
Fingerprints received July 18, 2021
BG completed July 19*, 2021

All other sections of tracker are In Progress, Citizenship and Citizenship Ceremony Not Started

Am I almost to the finish line?

Edit*

 

[Syrhazard]

Currently, you are at the "Decision Made" stage. You'll see "Decision made" on ECAS .

The next step is for you to receive an oath ceremony invitation.

I've updated the spreadsheet for you!

Good luck!

For some reason I didn't get notified about your reply

Thank you I did just verify a DM on the old ECAS this is exciting!

Anyone has experience with wait time till an Oath ceremony letter after DM?

Thanks and good luck everyone!

 

[melito]

Update from my tracker:
Fingerprints received July 18, 2021
BG completed July 19*, 2021

All other sections of tracker are In Progress, Citizenship and Citizenship Ceremony Not Started

Am I almost to the finish line?

Edit*

Updated. I wouldn't say you are, given that you haven't passed the test yet

 

[texanincanada]

Updated. I wouldn't say you are, given that you haven't passed the test yet

Thank you. I hope it's not too long until I get the test invite!

 

[Halcan]

Hi, could you provide the dates these updates happened?
What is the date in the new tracker?

Sent: June 21st 2020
Delivered on June 23rd 2020
Received AOR: Oct 23rd 2020
Montreal office, single applicant,
In progress: 26th Jan 2021
Received test invite: 9 June 2021
Test passed: 11th June 2021
Test updated: 15th June 2021
Everything set to completed except oath: July 22nd 2021
Old tracker: Decision Made

 

[SNS76]

Is there anyone from Ottawa (June 2020, applicant), who received test invitation?

 

[visa_4all]

Is there anyone from Ottawa (June 2020, applicant), who received test invitation?

I guess Ottawa is very slow. May be experts @melito and @rajkamalmohanram can throw some light.
There are very few applicants for Ottawa as compared to Toronto / Montreal, and yet they are at snail's pace.

Thank you

 

[melito]

Sent: June 21st 2020
Delivered on June 23rd 2020
Received AOR: Oct 23rd 2020
Montreal office, single applicant,
In progress: 26th Jan 2021
Received test invite: 9 June 2021
Test passed: 11th June 2021
Test updated: 15th June 2021
Everything set to completed except oath: July 22nd 2021
Old tracker: Decision Made

Updated

 

[rajkamalmohanram]

I guess Ottawa is very slow. May be experts @melito and @rajkamalmohanram can throw some light.
There are very few applicants for Ottawa as compared to Toronto / Montreal, and yet they are at snail's pace.

Thank you

Well, there are some stats available in the spreadsheet specific to Ottawa office.

City​	Month​	App Count​	AOR​	AOR to IP​	IP to Test Invite​	Test Invite to test​	Test to DM​	DM to Oath Letter​	Oath Letter to Oath​	App. Complete in Days​
Ottawa
	January	9	87	148	274	9	26			558
	February	6	205	73	169	4	51			528
	March	4	215	40	127	23	97	9	6	505
	April	2	186	62	118	7				473
	May	2	150	58						429
	June	2	156	80	153					406
	July	4	119	72	148	4				379
	August	2	97	37						340
	September	5	116	43						312
	October	5	103	34						285
	November	5	85	38						257
	December	4	64	23	92	16	38			216

You can take a look at the numbers here. The reason why Ottawa appears "slow" is probably because the application count for Ottawa office is very, very low. There are only 50 applications from Ottawa in total for all of 2020.

For comparison, take a look at the stats for Mississauga/Toronto/Brampton offices below (Most of "Toronto" and all of "Brampton" applicants are processed in Mississauga IMO)

I'm adding up all the applicants from Mississauga, Brampton and (conservatively) 50% of Toronto applicants. The app count comes to 60 + 74 + 156 (311/2) = Approximately 290 applicants that are being processed in Mississauga office.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...7DvqoXSkyqxgbA31eEJ_TKO6Y/edit#gid=2028470052

The App count is simply off the charts for GTA applicants when compared to Ottawa applicants. Since the app count for Ottawa is low, you don't see much updates from Ottawa applicants and it might appear that the office is much slower compared to the offices in the GTA (like Mississauga office).

Not sure if any of this makes sense but this is my take on why Ottawa office appears to be "very slow". The sample set for Ottawa is very small and hence the average processing times you see might not be properly reflected with such a small sample set.

 

[Dr Nonsky]

Any late June 2020 Toronto Applicant that has gotten their Test Invite yet? I think Toronto office is sleeping.