Source: Maple Leaf Gimman Talk (ID :)

Lu Qi's balcony editor

For many Canadian immigrants, nothing is "becoming or not".

Chinese passports and Yangzhuka are like a pass, which can be used in two places, with two places before and after. Some friends have come for decades, but still retain Chinese passports.

According to statistics, Canada said that the choice of immigrants for citizens from Canada came from India and China.

Of course, once you meet the application requirements, many friends will immediately become a citizen. Some of them may not return to China, and some people need to return.

The maple leaf card must be sat on the "immigration supervision" to meet the requirements of 5 years of life. Picking up the Canadian's passport means "release of punishment", which can live freely in the world.

Therefore, the Chinese in the Maple Leaf Kingdom, whether or not citizens are citizens, are convenient to return to China.

Of course, living with Chinese passports overseas will inevitably experience the concept of Chinese people.

Once returned from China, his teammates had a routine random inspection at the airport. When immigration officials checked the travel certificate of the attached person, she suddenly asked me why I was not a citizen?

I didn't expect to encounter a seemingly disgusted problem. So I said, "This is my personal choice, is there a problem?"

I had another short -term business trip to the United States.

The gap between the United States-Canadian border is usually stable. That day, I held a Chinese passport and a ten -year visa in the United States. I was asked what industry and work content in Canada. What is the work of serving Canadian or American companies.

A colleague similar to my "identity" was asked similarly.

Perhaps because we are a Chinese company, customs may question whether the company competes with the US labor market by hiring relatively cheap labor in Canada.

In 2015, China-Canada implemented visa mutual benefit. Overseas Chinese can approve 10 years to visit relatives or business visas.

This policy has brought many citizenship Chinese friends to return to China, but this is not "shocked" at all.

According to the outbreak of three years, the overseas embassy suspended foreigners returned to China with a valid visa and residence permit.

Many families must separate these two places during their passports. In some, even the last side of the loved ones did not see it.

In 2020, when we decided to return, even if it was difficult to find the time to return to China at that time, at least we had no visa obstacles.

All of these Chinese passports in my hand are very precious.

The Chinese may be the most conscious country in the world.

Of course, I also hope that I can continue to enjoy the green channel of China and Canada.

In order to avoid the requirements of the maple leaf card during the return period, after 10 years of immigration, in early 2020, we officially launched a citizenship application. At that time, the formal trial reference time was about 1 year.

For more than 2 months after submitting materials, we received a notice from the Immigration Bureau.

Later, the gradual upgrading of Canada also reduced the speed of the immigration bureau to the speed of the turtle, and our application also entered a continuous "processing" state.

After returning to Shanghai in 2020, the child started a normal study life.

The convenience and rich entertainment activities in all aspects of China enable us to adapt to the new return life. The wise approach is that it is wise to return to China to return to China.

Popularity continues to bring various inconvenience to international travel. The desire to return to Canada has gradually become less urgent. Its citizenship has become another choice behind our main melody.

In October 2021, I received a notice from the citizenship test. I felt so fast at the time.

Applicants between the Immigration Bureau require that applicants between 18 and 55 must conduct citizenship tests.

Citizenship test must be completed within 21 days after receiving the test notice.

For applicants for overseas (OF), within 24-48 hours notified in citizenship tests, the email is required to notify the immigration office so that they can further arrange.

In fact, as far as my personal experience is concerned, this answer is mainly to let the immigration department know that you are overseas. At that time, the answer I received was the online test link provided in the test notice to complete the citizen test within 21 days.

The citizen test notice introduces the relevant rules in detail, including the learning materials prepared before the test, the required documents registered for the examination, the hardware equipment requirements (computers and browsers).

In addition, the notice also introduced some of the requirements of the exam and the requirements in the exam.

Although this is an online test, it is completely supervised by the camera to supervise the entire examination process. However, if you are thought to have fraud in the exam, it may directly affect the naturalization application process or even be rejected.

In Canada, individuals usually do not use a small amount of cleverness to challenge the integrity culture and credit mechanism of the entire society, because the price is too high, not to mention the best test problem.

Citizen test content covers Canadian geography, economy, cultural history, government agencies, citizen rights and obligations.

The test time is 30 minutes, including 20 choices.

There are many simulation exercises on the Internet. I personally think that actual test problems are much simpler than simulation exercises. There is no model in the simulation problem. I reviewed the test information about 2 times and the exam was completely passed.

The content of citizenship testing is actually very helpful for the propaganda of immigrants and culture, which really makes me know more comprehensively in Canada.

This also prompted our public account to open the "internal Canada" department to share various sharing with everyone.

After the citizenship test, the naturalization process continued until the waiting period until we entered 2022.

In March 2022, the whole environment entered a very strange state. Everyone's emotions became very anxious, and their sense of insecurity became stronger and stronger.

In mid -April, 5 months after the citizen exam, I received an invitation from the citizen's oath. Although the oath is held online, the person who clearly requires the oath must be in Canada.

In the state of "not leaving the house" at the time, I wrote to explain the situation to the Immigration Department, saying that it was impossible to return to Canada when request and asked how to re -arrange.

A reply from the Immigration Department,

"Back to you through this email, we will be at the time."

When you return to Canada safely, please notify us by email, and we will arrange an oath ceremony for you again.

This seemingly traditional answer makes us feel mixed in special times.

The distant countries in the Western Hemisphere seem to have been calling our home.

In the summer of 2022, Canada was "lying down" in epidemic diseases, and our impermanence in China gradually became a helpless daily life.

In October, we contacted the Immigration Bureau to explain the current situation, hoping that the oath ceremony can be arranged in the summer of 2023.

The Immigration Department replied that the delay of the oath ceremony was unconventional, and finally agreed to calculate the one -year extension of the primary oath.

Later, we also learned from the immigration lawyer that in the further relaxation environment of epidemic diseases around the world, China's special circumstances are no longer considered the cause of expansion.

This treatment is also a guarantee of fair process.

In November 2022, after more than two years of departure, I embarked on a journey back to Canada.

Speaking of this citizen's oath ceremony, many friends will ask that since April 2020, the citizen's ceremony has been changed online.

Since it is online, why is it in Canada?

This is mainly because during the oath, the oath needs to cut off your permanent residence card in front of the camera, which represents the end of your permanent residence of Canadians.

If people have no permanent card abroad, there is no effective travel file to return to Canada.

I also saw overseas oaths on the Internet. However, after the oath, there is a citizenship and passport process. How long does the Canadian ambassador and leader have been accepted and accepted.

After arriving in Canada, I immediately contacted the Immigration Department. The earliest citizen's oath ceremony has been arranged for a month.

Citizenship is the last step of Canadian citizenship. Many immigrant friends call the citizen's ritual as an oath or singing, because the content of the ceremony is the oath and singing national anthem.

Two weeks before the citizen's ceremony, I received a notice from the citizenship ceremony of the Immigration Bureau. The notice introduced the main process of the ceremony. The documents that need to be prepared in advance, and the oath of signing the oath after the ceremony.

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On the day of my citizen ceremony, 100 people were online. They come from different countries, and they can see that everyone has made careful preparations.

Some people hang a large Canadian flag behind them, some people wear their national clothing, and some people sit side by side with their families.

The other vows were the elders who sat in front of the screen very carefully, but they were a little nervous. They will confirm whether they are still online from time to time.

Throughout the process, the entire citizen's ritual was responsible for guidance.

The first step of this process is registration. Oath will be invited to enter a "small conference room" to check personal information with the staff of the immigration department and cut the maple leaf card in front of the camera.

In the process, the staff will remind him that she must record her/his name.

After the oath ceremony, the oath needs to sign the oath to confirm and send it to the immigration office in the form of mail.

In response to the theme of the email, the name of the employees connected to you should be marked to separate the email into her/his next process.

After the process of the small conference room was over, I was assigned back to the home and waited for everyone to complete the registration process. About 20 minutes later, we officially entered the oath process.

Congratulations to oath congratulations, then played the Canadian national promotion video, and congratulated the video with Prime Minister Trudeau ().

The oath is carried out at the same time. After the death of the Queen of Britain, he vowed to change his effect and be loyal to King Charles.

The judge will encourage everyone to resume an oath in English and French.

People with religious beliefs can swear their hands in the Bible, and people who do not have religious beliefs can simply confirm their vows. Then everyone sang the Canadian national anthem in English and French.

When swearing, there will be a sense of dislocation, after all, he is a natural Chinese.

When singing the national anthem, the atmosphere becomes natural. Living in Canada, there are actually many opportunities to sing the Canadian national anthem. However, this is the first time that I have sang as Canadians, and I don't feel a little excited.

Although it is online, in the process, it keeps it for a minute to let everyone take a group photo with a citizen judge on the screen. Before taking selfies, considering the right to portrait, everyone needs to first close the video function of the meeting. The judge will "smile" on the screen for a minute.

Then enter the last part of the citizen ritual. After the oath, the project official will read preventive measures and urge everyone to swore to confirm the signature and reply to the immigration office within 48 hours after the entry ceremony.

The entire online citizen ceremony takes about 1 and a half hours. At this point, I also officially became the Canadians in Shanghai.

After permanently, Canadians who become citizens are called "press", and citizen identity () is similar to birth documents.

After the Christmas holiday, I received a yellow logo in the mailbox. The letter wrote to the postman: "Send it carefully, don't fold it."

My citizen's documents, the letter of Prime Minister Trudeau, and the immigration minister Fraser () were sandwiched in a folder of "welcome home".

Although these two letters are common, I still want to share two of them that moved me most:

from:

"Every day, we show that we are our core to the world. This is our core; this is our identity and what we have done. In this, this is our unity."

Every day, we are showing the world. Our diversity is our biggest advantage. This is the core value of Canada; this represents who we are and guiding us. In this country, we can express our differences without harming us.

From Sean:

"This can be provided. It links you to everyone to the same-harmony." ‍

Citizenship is one of the biggest honors that this country can provide. It associates you with various backgrounds Canadians and our common values ​​that have democracy, diversity and tolerance.

I don't think everyone will experience the experience of replacing nationality.

But this is actually just like many main choices in our lives, they are not perfect. desolate

In this era of no longer identifying ourselves in a single identity, our choice is just to better control and plan the future.

After all, seeds and hope can be rooted.

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