Citizenship Applications: Canadian Citizenship

Meunier Dept: In recent years, the wait time for people applying to become citizens has gone from five to 19 months. All applications go through one office, in Sydney, N.S, and about 250 were working there, according to CBC. "They were frustrated because they couldn't provide the quality and the quick services to the immigrants," said Meunier-McKay. Changes to federal legislation Dozens of extra immigration staff have been reassigned to process Canadian citizenship applications to help deal with delays. Jeannette Meunier-McKay, national president of the Canada Employment and Immigration Union, told News on Monday her members were complaining about workload, and that they weren't able to process applications on time. As reported in the news.
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