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Interesting to see Canada House have accepted a dual passport/citizenship certificate application. The establishment of the children's canadian citizenship it seems will be communicated in advance from Nova Scotia (based on your wife's documents) to Canada House to initiate passport issuance. The physical production of a citizenship card will then take place afterwards. Not sure about the use of a Canadian mailing address if you are not physically in Canada - one to check with Canada House.Cheers, Kayalami. The bit of the jigsaw I missed out was that my wife was told by the Canadian High Commission in London that we ought to apply for both the passport and proof of citizenship at the same time, but that the passport would arrive quite some time in advance of the proof of citizenship. One option might, I suppose, be to use a Canadian mailing address for the proof of citizenship, if we can.
Restricted validity passports routinely tend to be for 1 year as opposed to the standard 5 years. You should be ok on this front. It is definitley helpful if Mrs Rhodes made the enquiries or accompanied you for such.In the application pack for the passport, there is a little slip of paper to fill in when one doesn't have a Canadian birth certificate or certificate of Canadian citizenship, and that has to be signed to say that "I understand that I may be issued with a limited validity passport for travel" and goes on to say that the passport will not be extended until the appropriate documentation (so, proof of citizenship in this case) has been issued.
I think that I (or perhaps Mrs Rhodes) will take the papers to Canada House and try to discuss is with them, espcially as I don't know what a limited validity passport means. I don't want it to expire before my application for prmanent residence is approved (probably in early October)!
Appreciate the process can be somewhat stressful. Perhaps it will help if you think of it as the start of or rather a continuation of your love affair with Canada and all things CanadianThis can get rather confusing!
Glad to be of help.Many thanks (rather belatedly!) Kayalami.
Although Mrs R would be exempt from the oath/affirmation she still needs to undertake the new pledge. Is there someone in the UK who can receive notification of the citizenship ceremony - this is where a good lawyer or family friends can prove quite useful? They can then update you accordingly and Mrs R can fly across to take the pledge. IMHO if Mrs R applied for naturalisation today she would be done and dusted by Dec 2004 subject to her meeting all the legislative requirements - the 6 months timeline you quote is an average rather than case specific.The process takes about 6 months, followed by the citizenship ceremony, which appears to be compulsory, even for people from within the Queen's patch, according to the above. As we hope to be in Canada by the end of the year, and preferably by October or November, I think we'll not bother with this. Especially as my wife would have to send her passport in, given her earlier difficulties with the deliberately unhelpful people in Croydon.
Tssk Mr R. - the excitement must be getting to you. The Home Office Nationality department will accept notarised copies of all the pages in her passport/s covering the qualifying residential period. Get out the yellow pages, get quotes from the local solicitors - try get those who do a batch/fixed fee notarisation rather than fee per page..it can get expensive. Mrs R should then take her ppt to them - accompany her for the fun element...now now I hear you say since when does going to a solicitors involve fun .though I think that Mrs R would be reluctant to send in her passport for several months, after her unhappy experience with Lunar House in Croydon.