Canadian Citizenship Introduces New Documentation
CIC (Canadian Immigration and Citizenship) has now started a regulation to issue recently introduced citizenship documents for the new Canadian citizens. This directive has been initiated from 1st February 2012, in order to decrease the fraudulent activities pertaining to citizenship. Till now, CIC was issuing wallet-sized plastic citizenship permit; but now a letter-sized paper document will be issued to the new citizens that will serve the purpose of citizenship certificate. Even a new e-validation system has also been set up to verify the details of this paper document.
As per the info given by CIC, the new document will contain a unique ID of the citizen along with the persona details and other information of the concerned citizen. These details may include name of the holder, birth date and gender etc. The information contained in the citizenship document can be used by other government departments to verify the holder’s status in the country through electronic verification system.
This citizenship document of certificate will be used as a legal status of the holder, not as any identity proof or a travelling document such as passport etc., as it will not contain an image of the holder. CIC had also announced that previously issued documents ie. Before 1st February 2012 can still be used and there is no need to replace them with the new certificate.
If you are applying for a Canadian citizenship, here is certain criterion that has to be fulfilled:
- Your age should be 18 years or more while applying for the Canadian citizenship, unless the application is submitted by your guardian or parents on your behalf.
- You should hold a permanent resident status in Canada that cane be attained through several immigration plans like ‘Skilled worker immigration’ or ‘Provincial nomination program’.
- You must be living in Canada from past three-four years prior to submission of application. However, children under the age of 18 may not fulfill this criteria.
- French or English should be the two languages in which you should have adequate knowledge to attain Canadian citizenship.
- There should be no criminal record of yours within the past 3 years.
- Knowledge of Canada’s rules and regulations is a must to apply citizenship of Canada.
If all these terms have been fulfilled by you, you can get Canadian citizenship easily. For more information of this, you can browse internet and get hold of the latest information.
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