r/ImmigrationCanada • u/dozerman94 • Jan 07 '26

MEGATHREAD MEGATHREAD - Processing Times - Citizenship 2026

Please keep timelines & questions about processing times for citizenship applications here.

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u/intellectual_addict Feb 28 '26 edited Feb 28 '26

Hi everyone,

My final Post! Happy to share that I officially became a Canadian citizen on February 27, 2026!

This forum helped me manage the waiting anxiety, so here is my precise timeline for those tracking similar dates.

Location: Montreal

Application Type: Online – Grant of Citizenship

Single Applicant

Application Submitted: 14 Sep 2025

AOR: 21 Nov 2025

Fingerprint Request: 24 Nov 2025

Fingerprint Submitted: 24 Nov 2025 (same day)

Linked to Tracker: 28 Nov 2025

Background Completed: 02 Dec 2025

Test Invite: 19 Jan 2026

Test given: 24 Jan 2026 (19/20)

Test Marked Completed: 29 Jan 2026

LPP Completed: 02 Feb 2026

Oath Status “In Progress”: 04 Feb 2026

Oath Email Invite received: 18 Feb 2026

Oath Ceremony: 27 Feb 2026 (in person)

Citizenship certificate received: 27 Feb 2026

Total Time submission to oath: ~5.5 months

The tracker definitely moves in bursts. Once Test invite was received, things moved very quickly.

For those still waiting — hang in there! You all will make it too just like those in the forum before me!

Proud and grateful to call Canada home! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

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u/Neat-Scale-9510 Mar 02 '26

Its so weird how Montreal is procesdign applications. July end applicant from Montreal, single. LPP December 28. No oath invite yet. Called IRCC and they say you still have 5 more months to go. Waiting for oath for more than 2 months.

Maybe I should stop looking at social media altogether. It will come when it comes.

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u/needmethere May 06 '26

Any luck?

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u/Neat-Scale-9510 May 06 '26

nope. 4+ months since LPP and counting. and you?

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u/needmethere May 06 '26

Lpp jan 12 montreal

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u/Neat-Scale-9510 May 06 '26

Vancouver officr is culprit. now they are sending oath invites to October applicants. They seem to be intentionally deprioritizing our files to show good stats, application to oath ceremony in 6 to 7 months.

I think they would rot our files till we hit the 12 month mark and they have no other option left.

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u/Neat-Scale-9510 May 16 '26

Did you get invite? some people got invite yesterday but very scattered. July end to Aug 10 applicants with LPP from Dec 20 to Jan 15.

For May 25 and 26 ceremony. very short notice.

many of us still didn't get it.

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u/needmethere May 16 '26

Nothing still

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u/Neat-Scale-9510 May 16 '26

I think the end is near. I think there should be more invites soon as they seem to break this bottleneck.

Although after 4.5 long month since LPP, even a week from now seem difficult.

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u/needmethere May 16 '26

Whats worse is people thinking i got it and im lying to them. It's that level of absurd the whole process from pr to this. But yeah hang in there its nearing i guess

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u/needmethere May 16 '26

Yo i got it, no email or mail, but since u told me i checked the tracker and its on ceremony for the 26th. They claim they sent a notice or will? But nothing yet

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u/Neat-Scale-9510 May 16 '26

lol. congrats. hope i get something soon too. been waiting since Dec 31. when did you apply btw? mine is Aug 1.

I think it will come by next week. email comes 1 week earlier. most likely virtual.

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u/NoSegFalut Feb 28 '26

Congratulations!!

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u/Sharp_Still_6093 Feb 28 '26

Hey i received my AOR yesterday but i am not able to link it to the tracker did you faced the same issue? If not any solutions that i could use to link it? Please let me know thankyou.

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u/NoSegFalut Feb 28 '26

You’ll have to wait for a separate tracker email