Chapter CP 13 - Administration

Section 8 - Policy on urgent application cases

8.1 This section is about

• what an ''urgent'' case is
• handling urgent cases

8.2 Authorities

8.3 When a case is urgent

Applications for proof of citizenship, search of citizenship records for Canadian citizens and applications for grant of citizenship are expedited if documents support the need for urgency in the following situations:

• a request is received from the office of the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Canada
• the applicant needs to travel because of death or serious illness in the family and cannot obtain a passport in his or her present nationality (includes Canadian passport)
• the applicant has been in Canada for 1,095 days or more and faces the loss of employment or employment opportunity because he or she is not a Canadian citizen
• the applicant is a Canadian citizen and faces the loss of employment or employment opportunity because he or she is not in posession of a document establishing Canadian citizenship
• an application delayed for administrative reasons that are not the applicant's fault
• an application for grant of citizenship for a minor about to become 18 years old
• an applicant for grant of citizenship whose appeal to the Federal Court is successful
• any situation in which not expediting the citizenship application harms the applicant, such as the need to renounce foreign citizenship by a certain date.

8.4 Document needed

Documents must support urgent cases.

For instance, for an applicant facing the loss of employment or employment opportunity, the applicant must submit a letter from the employer.

The letter should say that the applicant will lose employment or potential employment if he or she is not Canadian citizen. The letter must also say why Canadian Citizenship is a job requirement, and why the employer cannot make other arrangements.