I AM CANADIAN!
Yes, you read that right! I took my Citizenship Oath this afternoon and am now officially a Canadian citizen.
The citizenship ceremony took place entirely on Zoom, which was an interesting experience, because there were about 80 other people/families in the meeting in total. I don’t know if everyone was from Alberta or if they were all scattered around, but the judge that performed the ceremony was in Montreal, so who knows!
The whole thing took about two and a half hours; most of the time was spent waiting for the clerk to do one-on-one meetings with everyone, during which we had to cut up our Permanent Resident cards on camera. Then we all came together, said the Oath, sang the national anthem, and became Canadians.
(I had to pledge my allegiance to King Charles and all his successors, which was pretty wild.)
So no longer do I live in a foreign country. Canada is my country!
TWO THINGS TODAY
First: Nate’s surgery went well! He and his mom got back around 5 or so this evening and he’s doing a lot better than either of the previous two surgeries already.
Second: I got an email from IRCC Canada giving me a notice to take my citizenship oath! It will be over Zoom on Thursday, November 30.
That’s wild. I’ll be an official Canadian citizen in a few weeks!
Pass!
Awwww yeah!
I’m pretty sure I know which question I missed because I overthought it, haha.
Now the next step is to wait for them to contact me (they have to review my test and the recording of me taking it to be sure I wasn’t cheating, haha) so that I can take my official oath.
Super exciting!
Well, hell.
So you know how I sent in my application for Canadian citizenship back at the end of July? And how we all figured the process would take like six months minimum so that I’d have some time to study up for the Citizenship Test before I got called in to take it?
I got called in to take it.
I have until October 23rd to take it, specifically.
Have I studied at all? No.
Do I have time to study at all? No.
Is this the worst possible semester for this test to happen? Yes.
But I want citizenship, so I’ll have to GIT ‘ER DONE somehow.
Oof.
Guess what I did today?
I APPLIED FOR CANADIAN CITIZENSHIP!
I’m finally eligible and I finally got around to filling out the application, so now it’s on its way and I get to see how long this whole process takes now.
At least it was easier (and cheaper) than permanent residency.
SCREW IT, GONNA BE CANADIAN
Hi.
So I’ve been eligible to apply for Canadian citizenship for quite some time now, but obviously haven’t done it yet. I hope to do it soon, though! I was initially going to apply online since they allow people to do that now, but every time I try to create an account it says their system is down.
Every. Single. Time.
So I’m like screw this, let’s do the paper application. It’s a lot less convenient and makes me worry that I’m going to very easily forget to submit something, but I had to do a paper application for permanent residence that was a LOT more involved than the paperwork for citizenship, and that went through fine.
The fee for the citizenship application is also quite a bit less than the fee for the permanent residence application, so there’s that.
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