A new research report shows that that the qualified permanent residents would not be in a position to cast their votes even during 2015, even as the same allegedly denotes that they would be denied the position of Citizenship till the said year.

Wait in submission procedure

As per available information, at the present, over 350,000 permanent residents are cooling their heels to gain the nation’s much sought after citizenship. Allegedly, the demand for citizenship has swelled by as much as 30% with the reason being the figure of permanent residents has headed north considerably.

Citizenship Prerequisites

The conditions permanent residents require fulfilling to gain citizenship:

• They ought to be 18 or above. However, the parents or even legal guardians of the applicants below the bare minimum age may file a petition on the aspirants’ behalf.
• They ought to be the nation’s permanent resident.
• The aspirants should be staying in the country for not less than three years inside the period of the past four years.
• The candidates must be duly skilled in either of these, namely, French or English.
• They should successfully sail through the citizenship test.
• They ought to have a clean background with no recorded criminal involvements before.

Problems Aspirants Come Across

Several people who filed their petitions the last year–in place of gaining any confirmation–are reportedly asked to fill-up one more submission form. In this backdrop, it would be perhaps right to claim that several of these applicants may have to cool their heels for additional two or more years. In fact, in majority of the cases it’s seen that the submissions continue to be unattended for even over two years.

Reasons of Delay

Some persons believe that the main cause of delay is the modifications introduced in the procedure for submission. The ex immigration minister had reportedly introduced the amendments with a view to come down hard on the cases of residency scam, even as the same has made the procedure lengthy and complex.

Post the amendments were introduced, around 3,000 petition-files of the citizens and 5,000 cases of permanent residents have been duly examined. Courtesy the development, nearly 3,000 persons are expected to be denied of their citizenship, while an additional 5,000 cases would be marked for examination in the near future.

Candidates to Obey Fresh Laws

The aspirants not being able to sail through the citizenship test would be permitted to appear for the test one more time. Earlier, they had to cool their heels for several months for the same. The candidates also have to present an evidence of language expertise from a duly recognized organization for filing a petition.