u/julie78787

I did finally have a chance to go through the spreadsheet with a very fine toothed comb and the number of people with out applications delivered over 80 or so days ago (I think that gets us back before the April dates where delivery dates are close to 100% AORs received) is a small percentage of the totals.

Personally, I’m at over 100 days, Gen 2, non-urgent. As some of y’all may recall, when I started this process I couldn’t find my father’s birth record, so I collected supplemental documentation to prove my father was born (I had no birth record of any sort - birth, baptism, nothing before age 7), and that his father was my Gen 0, etc.

In terms of evidentiary quality - I have a lot of experience as a genealogist, so these were all high quality government issued records, not based on self-reported information - I felt they were very high. They also tied a lot of information together - I provided my grandparents’ voter rolls information from the riding in Toronto, which listed a street address, to US immigration records which showed my father was traveling with my grandfather and it listed that street address.

As slowly work my way to 110 days without an AOR, I’m getting worried that I’ve provided them with so damned much information, and they are going to try and verify what was provided as supplemental information, that I’m just never getting an AOR.

Who else seems to be in this boat with me, and what have you been able to do? What can be done? I was so proud of myself for going above and beyond and now I seem to be screwed.

I have read all of the weekly posts, and I’ve even asked questions in the weekly posts, but all I get is statements about how far the IRCC has gotten. This seems to be a problem a small number of us just have and the “Frustration Station” megathread just doesn’t seem able to address it.

In the course of working towards Canadian citizenship by descent I learned that my father’s overseas birth (he was born in South America of a Canadian British born subject father and an American mother) was registered with the British consulate where he was born. I now have a copy of that document.

He resided with his family in Ontario for a number of years, after they returned from their stay in South America, and then moved to the US permanently.

I’m curious about obtaining UK citizenship by descent as it offers certain advantages in British Overseas Territories over a Canadian passport. As much as I love Canada, there are a number of BOTs that I have greatly enjoyed in the past.

I’m sorry if this is this wrong subreddit. I found it doing a google search on the subject.