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English and French requirements for Canadian Citizenship.
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English and French requirements for Canadian Citizenship.
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This is a requirement to be in Canada for a specific number of days after obtaining Permanent Resident status. There are two related issues here. One is the requirement to maintain the permanent-resident status and the other is to meet the residence-in-Canada requirement to be able to subsequently apply for Canadian citizenship. The residency requirements for both these situations are different. One is required to maintain residence in Canada for two years out of every five years to maintain PR status. To be eligible to apply for citizenship, one should have had residency for at least three years out of the last five years. Note: there could be several situations which could be slightly different from the above-mentioned requirements.
Changes have been proposed to the way the government of Canada assesses the language abilities of prospective new citizens. Under the proposal, adult citizenship applicants would be required to provide objective evidence of language ability with their citizenship applications. This change will encourage applicants to ensure that they can speak English or French when they apply for citizenship, thereby improving the integrity and effectiveness of the citizenship program for Canada and for new Canadians alike.This proposed change would not increase the language level required, but would change the way that citizenship applicants aged 18-54 prove their language ability.Applicants would be able to demonstrate language ability by submitting a variety of evidence, including: the results of a third party test; evidence of completion of secondary or post-secondary education in English or French; or evidence of achieving CLB/NCLC 4 in certain government funded language training programs. As per the release, the language skills to be assessed would be speaking and listening only.
