Learning path
The citizenship grant requirements are among the most precisely published rules in the system: a day count, a residency obligation, a knowledge test drawn from one official study guide, and a numbered set of forms. This path reads them in order. It stores nothing about anyone and decides nothing; IRCC decides applications.
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The Citizenship Act requires 1,095 days of physical presence in Canada within the five years before the day an application is signed, and time spent in Canada before permanent residence can count at half credit up to a published cap. The calculator does that published arithmetic in the browser and keeps the trip list on the device. Officers verify the count against travel history.
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IRCC publishes a processing time for citizenship grant applications alongside its other lines of business, and updates it periodically. The tracker shows what is published today. A published time describes how long recent applications took rather than promising a date for a new one.
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Applicants within the published age range sit a knowledge test on rights, responsibilities, history, geography and government, drawn from the official study guide Discover Canada. The practice questions here follow that same published material. Practice results are practice only and are stored on the device.
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The citizenship grant application has its own numbered forms and instruction guides, published by IRCC and re-issued from time to time. The forms library lists them with the official download page for each. The version currently posted on canada.ca is the one that counts.
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These tools orient: they show which published rule applies to a subject and where the official text lives. They do not explain the law in depth, and they never apply it to a person. Those are two different places, and both are here.
This volume explains the law; it cannot and does not apply it to you. That is the role of a licensed professional.
No library volume covers this subject
No volume of the Deep-Dive Library covers citizenship. Volume 1 is about entering Canada and Volume 2 is about immigrating to Canada, so neither one would be an honest answer to a citizenship question. The free tools above plus the official pages they cite are what this site offers here.
Free tools orient. The Deep-Dive Library explains the law in depth for every reader alike. A licensed professional is the only place that can speak to one person and their situation.
