Citizenship Lawyer in Brampton

It runs from notification rather than from the date on the letter, and it covers both filing and service. A file that is prepared on day 29 and served on day 31 is late.

Thirty days is also short for the work it implies. The reasons for refusal have to be obtained and read, the record has to be assessed for whether there is an arguable case, and the application has to be drafted. That assessment is the lawyer's, and it happens at a consultation rather than after filing.

They are two different tests and confusing them is the most common reason an application is filed early. Citizenship asks for 1,095 days of physical presence in the five years immediately before the application. Keeping permanent residence asks for 730 days in a five year period under section 28 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.

The credits differ too. Time abroad with a Canadian spouse, or working abroad for a Canadian business, can count toward the 730 and counts for nothing toward the 1,095. Somebody can therefore be securely a permanent resident and years away from citizenship at the same time. The arithmetic is set out on the citizenship page.

A group that grew on 15 December 2025, and this is worth checking before paying for anything. The first generation limit on citizenship by descent was replaced with a substantial connection test, and anyone born before that date who would have been a citizen but for the old limit is a citizen now, by operation of the amended Act.

Somebody in that group does not apply for a grant. They apply for proof of the citizenship they already hold, which is a citizenship certificate at $75 against $653 for an adult grant. For a city with Brampton's share of families whose parents were themselves born abroad, filing the wrong one is a common and expensive mistake.

Yes, and this is worth knowing before filing rather than after. The Citizenship Act bars an application outright, rather than merely delaying it, for someone serving a sentence in Canada, on parole or on probation, or who is charged with, on trial for, or appealing an indictable offence here or an equivalent offence abroad.

The bar runs backwards from the application date over the relevant period, so a charge laid after filing can still catch the application if it lands inside that window. Anybody with a charge outstanding should know where it sits in that timeline before filing rather than discover it after paying the fee.

This is the same sentence question that decides an inadmissibility finding under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, and it is common for both to be live on one file at once. Where that is the case, the criminal matter and the citizenship application need to be read together rather than handled by two people who have not spoken to each other.