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How to Apply for Citizenship in Canada
Becoming a permanent resident, or landed immigrant, of Canada provides many benefits, but full citizenship is more secure. In addition to carrying a Canadian passport and being able to vote, citizens need not fear losing their Canadian status by spending too much time outside the country. And many countries allow you to maintain dual citizenship, keeping all the benefits of citizenship in your original homeland.
Read more: How to Apply for Citizenship in Canada | eHow
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How to Apply for Citizenship in Canada
Becoming a permanent resident, or landed immigrant, of Canada provides many benefits, but full citizenship is more secure. In addition to carrying a Canadian passport and being able to vote, citizens need not fear losing their Canadian status by spending too much time outside the country. And many countries allow you to maintain dual citizenship, keeping all the benefits of citizenship in your original homeland.
Read more: How to Apply for Citizenship in Canada | eHow
- Instructions
- 1 Acquire Canadian permanent residency (PR), or "Landed Immigrant" status. That first step's a big one, but there's no way around it. To apply for Canadian citizenship you must have been a landed immigrant for an absolute minimum of two years. And that's only if you spent a significant amount of time in Canada prior to gaining PR status. More likely, you'll need three years or more of residency before you can apply for Canadian citizenship. On the other hand, if you remember how difficult and time consuming it was to file for landed immigrant status, rest assured, that was the hard part. Applying for citizenship is much, much easier.
- 2 Keep a log of your travels. While you're clocking that residency time, be sure to keep track of any travel that takes you out of Canada. As part of the application process, you'll have to list every time you left the country for more than a simple daytrip. This includes business travel, vacations, family emergencies, anything. The government won't simply pull this information out of their own records. You have to keep track of it. Also, while stamps on your passport can help pin down dates, don't rely on this. Often, border officers won't bother to stamp your passport. It's best to keep a dedicated log on your computer or on paper.
- 3 Check your residency online. Citizenship and Immigration Canada provides an eligibility calculator (URL below). You can use it to confirm that you meet the basic residency requirement, and to enter the data from your travel log from Step 2. If you enter that data here, you can attach it to your Canadian citizenship application later, and won't have to write it all down again. The basic residency requirement is that you must have spent 1,095 days (three years) in Canada out of the last four years. Days during which you had PR status count as full days. Days spent in Canada prior to getting PR status count as half a day, but you must have had PR status for at least two years.
- 4 Fill out the Canadian citizenship application form (CIT 0002). If the online calculator agrees you've spent enough time in Canada, and haven't wiped out too many days by traveling outside the country, you're ready to fill out the form. It can be downloaded as a .pdf file from the CIC web site. (URL below). You can either print it and fill it out by hand, or type your information directly into the form and print it. It's much easier than the PR application. It's a five-page form in total, and much of that's given over to the log of your travel - which you can skip if you used the online calculator--and weird questions like whether you want to receive a congratulatory letter from your Member of Parliament. If you haven't been sent to prison, or convicted of crimes against humanity, you should have no trouble with the form.
- 5 Collect your paperwork. Along with the form itself, you'll need a photocopy of both sides of your PR card, along with a photocopy of either your Record of Landing (IMM 1000) or your Confirmation of Permanent Residence (IMM 5292). Depending on when you immigrated, you should have gotten one or the other of those when you landed.You'll also need copies of two pieces of ID, including one with your picture. The photo page of your passport and a Canadian drivers license will do just fine, but so will things like your health insurance card. You'll also need to send pictures of yourself which, like passport photos, will end up on your wallet-sized citizenship certificate. The application guide includes a page of specs you can take to the photographer to make sure you get all the details right.
- 6 Pay the fee and wait. At this point, it's mostly out of your hands. Just send in your completed application and documents with the $200 fee. This is actually a $100 processing fee and a $100 "right of citizenship fee." If your application is rejected for any reason, you'll get the latter back, but not the processing fee. CIC claims the current processing time is about a year, but anecdotal evidence suggests that the time to become a new Canadian is actually closer to nine months.Which is kind of appropriate when you think about it.
- CIC Online Residence Calculator
- CIC Downloadable Application Form
- CIC Downloadable Guide to the Application
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