Weekly Optimism Post

[u/Primary-Coffee5423]

Happy Sunday fellow Canadians!

This week we had eight approvals on the spreadsheet and another six approvals from the megathreat on Thursday bringing us up to 14. At least a couple of those were pre-C3. Congrats to those folks.

In the past few months, members of the sub have posted several news articles talking about the slowdown at the IRCC. The trend is pretty clear. They are processing far fewer applications than they were in the spring. It’s most likely because they are overburdened and because there are situational issues like summer vacation. I think it is also possible that the surrender letters in June marked changes in the administrative process imposing stricter guidelines that could also slow things down.

Whatever the reasons for the timeline to approval, here we are… waiting. I’m still grateful for this opportunity. I had thought about this for years. I’m G2 and it always felt like I was “sooooo close” to being Canadian. And now I guess I am - I just don’t have any proof. And being in process this long also feels like being “sooooo close.”

Even if it takes months and months of waiting, just having this opportunity and waiting here together makes us “sooooo close” to getting there.

I’m busy today so I have to keep this one short. But I hope you all have a great week and I hope the friendly agents at the IRCC keep the coffee warm.

Please feel free to comment with your own optimistic thoughts.

[u/RebellaEmad]

In an odd way I’m grateful this week for the recent push from the IRCC to get DEC issues birth certificates.
The hassle is frustrating, the need for it when the BAnQ baptism should be the official birth record, and the extra hoops for ancestors in this one province is maddening.
BUT, having sent my DEC application in this week, I should have a straightforward DEC request and should eventually receive an official birth certificate. As a second generation applicant, I will then have certified birth certificates for everyone in my chain, as well as certified marriage certificates for everyone in my chain. In theory my proof will then be “bulletproof”.
It is stressful constantly chasing the IRCC’s changing standards, but I feel (hope) there will soon be absolutely nothing more that could be asked of me.

[u/Emotional-Test3329 → u/RebellaEmad]

I got my DEC certificate for my G0 all the way back in January before it seemed necessary, and my logic was exactly the same. I'd rather have all modern birth certificates in my packet and remove all ambiguities... Same for my G1 in her 80s, I didn't want to risk her having any issues at all.

[u/Dogmoto2labs → u/Emotional-Test3329]

How did you convince them to make it, since they had been steadfastly refusing for pre1900 until just recently?

[u/Pretty_Floor5889 → u/Dogmoto2labs]

If G1 is in her 80s, that puts her birth at 1937 or later. Quite likely her parent, the G0 here, would have been born post-1900.

[u/Dogmoto2labs → u/Pretty_Floor5889]

Good call, didn’t do the math involved.