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This is another plug for Donald Cameron, Immigration consultant extraordinaire.
And, of course, anyone who does a cross-border move is commanded to send me their tax return. Thanks Don, your cmments and corrections make this a much more intersting and informative piece of work.
Hi David,
Amazing how this telephone number for Ernest Smith worked for us......we were also waiting for CIC, Sydney to get back to us in respect of our application for Certificate of Proof of Canadian Citizenship for my children. One phone call and suddenly we have a case worker working on our behalf. In fact, I actually talked to the famous Ernest in person when I was sent ambiguous instructions of which further papers I should send...I told him ALL about your service. Incidentally, as far as I can work out, the fact that they DONT tell you all the papers you should send at the beginning is just their way of delaying and holding things up for us....(the general public). Personally, I honestly feel if they got their act together it could be a whole lot more efficient and therefore less time consuming. But, that is just my opinion..
Thanks again.......
JXXXXXXXXX
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From: [email protected]
To: CENTAPEDE
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 3:55 PM
Subject: PART II - Canadian mother's son wants Canadiancitizenship through Consulate in New York - ask an international income tax,immigration and real estate expert - David Ingram 's CENTA Services Group inWest Vancouver BC Canada
And, as usual, Donald Cameron former Canadian Consul in Seattle has the last word on this subject.
He also adds an interesting phone number which I did not have before.
Thanks also to Dan B who wrote with similar but shorter information.
-----Original Message-----
From: Donald Cameron [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 12:11 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Canadian mother's son wants Canadian citizenshipthrough Consulate in New York - ask an international income tax, immigration and real estate expert - David Ingram 's CENTA Services Group in West Vancouver BC Canada
David,
There are 2 solitudes at CIC - and the problems of one do not affect the other. In other words, delays in citizenship application processing have NOTHING to do with immigration processing delays.
Citizenship matters outside of Canada are NOT handled by the Citizenship & Immigration Canada employees at Canadian Embassies, High Commissions and Consulates. They are actually handled by employees of the Department of Foreign Affairs in the consular sections (not the immigration sections) of the Embassies, High Commissions and Consulates. These Foreign Affairs employees have no decision making authority over citizenship applications and merely forward the pieces of paper to the CIC Case Processing Centre conveniently located in Sydney, Nova Scotia (the riding of Deputy Prime Minister Allan MacEachern when the office was moved there).
Some Foreign Affairs consular employees make an effort to advise applicants if they think their citizenship applications could benefit from more supporting documents before they send them on to Sydney. Other employees do not. In any case, they have no control over the decision on the application or over how long it will take. In consequence, badgering them is a complete waste of time and effort.
Applicants may, of course, telephone the office in Sydney. The guy in charge is Ernest Smith and his telephone number is (902) 564-7825. Applicants may also phone the CIC Call Centres in Canada. However, the CIC internal audit of the Call Centres' responses to the questions they are asked shows that there is a good chance that applicants' questions will be incorrectly answered.
Best regards,
Don
----- Original Message -----
From: [email protected]
To: CENTAPEDE
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 1:15 AM
Subject: Canadian mother's son wants Canadian citizenshipthrough Consulate in New York - ask an international income tax, immigration and real estate expert - David Ingram 's CENTA Services Group in West Vancouver BC Canada
My son applied for Canadian citizenship in May of last year.He applied at the new york consulate in New York city. They told him it will take him from three to six months. His mother is a Canadian living in the US with a green card . The consular agent can't say how long it will take . After numerous phone calls they finaly told him that they need his mothers parents US citizen papers proving that they became US citizen's after 1977. The question is why isthis taking so long and why can't my son contact the Nova Scotia processing center by phone or email. The only way hegot any response from the consulate is by constantly badgering them this seems a bit rediculous.
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david ingram replies:
The answer is simple. The three to six months time was limit was a reasonable projection at the time.
Then, In June last year, The Supreme Court of Canada reinstated some 300,000 applications which had been turned down under a different set of rules.
NO extra staff were added.
In addition another 800,000 people lined up to get a new PR (permanent resident) card LATE. The announcement had been out for three years that the deadline was Jan 1, 2004. However, almost everyone waited to the last minute and it totally wrecked the system because every application seemed to take two times as long as they were expected to.
I make my living filling out forms and almost every one I did came back at least once for something that I considered silly but the CIC considered very important.
An example is their request for details of your son's grandparents' US Naturalization and is explained by another Q & A you should have received before this one.
Therefore, the net result was that every other application was shoved back another year or more.
AFor instance, a year ago, we expected new applications through Buffalo to take less than a year. Yesterday, Vancouver's dean of Canadian immigration Don Cameron (former Canadian Consul in Seattle) notified me that Buffalo's processing time is now 20 to 25 months. Don's email is [email protected] if you wanted to hire him to try and speed up your son's application. He has worked within the system at a very senior level and used to write the government's newsletter on the subject.
Other than that, your son will just have to wait. Badgering the consulate will just slow down everyone's application. I am actually surprised at how fast most of their paperwork is coming back under the adjusted circumstances.
Hope the reason helps you understand what is happening.
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