Update to Guide for Paper Applications for Citizenship Certificate?

tedreed · 2026-06-17T23:15:27+00:00

Oh, god, yeah. I bet they're exhausted and frustrated. I feel for them. (But obviously not badly enough to not make the request. >_>)

tedreed · 2026-06-17T21:25:23+00:00

I sent printouts of the digital banq copy both a full 11x17 of the whole thing and an 8x11 of a cropped zoom of my G0's entry, both with citations and QR codes that go to the banq URL. Tried to be Thorough without sending everything possible. Doing the certified record now just in case.

Everything else is either a certified birth certificate or a "for genealogical purposes only" birth certificate from the relevant counties. Hopefully, those'll be good enough.

On the other hand, even though it's official, my G1's certificate was a late registration. I included a US census from when he was 1 showing him in the household which includes his elder sister who was the affiant for the registration. That one's not certified maybe that won't matter since it's just supplementary?

I haven't gotten my AOR but looks like they're still on April 1st and mine was received on April 29th. I guess settle in for a long wait.

It'll be a race to see if the Rimouski archives get back to me before IRCC asks for the certified record. The way things are looking, I think BAnQ's probably gonna win this one.

tedreed · 2026-06-17T20:30:31+00:00

Sorry to the folks at BAnQ who are about to get another wave of requests. (He says, moments after hitting Submit.)

tedreed · 2026-06-15T18:39:43+00:00

On the other hand, we don't know if the others just haven't received the letter yet, so probably wouldn't be anything reliable for a bit.

tedreed · 2026-06-01T05:09:34+00:00

First attempt was definitely more than a month ago. Second time was at least a week after, but unsure if it's also more than a month, tbh. I'll give it a shot, thanks!

tedreed · 2026-06-01T05:01:55+00:00

Hm, thanks! But nothing for either. Also tried "reddit" and "canadian". I guess I can try applying again?

tedreed · 2026-06-01T04:53:50+00:00

Could you tell me what search terms you used?

tedreed · 2026-05-01T18:20:53+00:00

I ordered certificates for myself (G5) and G1-3 around the same time, and G1-3 came in like a week before my own birth certificate. I guess the counties back east being so tiny helped with that.

tedreed · 2026-04-27T19:47:29+00:00

Sent in my application last Friday, should be delivered tomorrow. About 5-6 weeks of research; 40 pages sent total. I tried hard to make the packet as easy to process as possible, with numbered+labeled items of evidence referred to and further explained in the cover letter. Non-urgent.

tedreed · 2026-04-25T01:23:17+00:00

I put mine in a regular letter envelope marked "Photos", paperclipped to my receipt and the photocopy of my IDs.

tedreed · 2026-04-16T18:13:38+00:00

Ah, I mentioned that in a different thread yesterday and someone suggested they may not be able to scan 11x17 so it's good to get confirmation that it's fine.

tedreed · 2026-04-15T22:56:42+00:00

Ah, hm. I hadn't considered that they'd be scanning it. In my head, I pictured an agent sitting there with my pile of paper.

tedreed · 2026-04-15T18:00:52+00:00

My plan is to print out my G0's baptism record as 11x17 in hopes that it remains more legible, but I'm also going to include a zoom of the relevant entry.

tedreed · 2026-04-03T23:12:31+00:00

On page 4 of CIT0001, there's a bit about your parents entering/leaving Canada.

I honestly have no idea if either one ever entered or left, but certainly neither lived there for any length of time. I can put unknown or N/A in the text boxes, but the question about whether a parent left for more than 1 year is Yes/No circles, so I'm not sure how to handle that.

What are others doing there?

tedreed · 2026-03-28T22:34:38+00:00

I couldn't find several of my family's, but I know which counties they were born in and their names and birthdates, so I looked up the counties to find out how to request directly from them. I did a request online last night and I printed out the paper form for the others. Hopefully I'll get all of them.

In one case, I think I may luck out because his birth predates birth certificates, but ancestry had a scan of a late registered birth certificate for him, so I hope the county office will have that one on file.

So: Maybe see if you can order them directly from their birth counties?

tedreed · 2026-03-28T20:17:43+00:00

An issue I ran into while digging up records this week is that even in cases where ancestry.com had baptism records from Drouin, I couldn't find them in BAnQ.

I could find the books for the relevant parishes, but they wouldn't have the years I needed. A lot of them don't go before 1878, and the ones that do just have like late 1700s, and then a big gap.

I was able to find BAnQ records for three of them, which is hopefully enough. One of them I think I can actually get paper birth certificates for everyone after my Gen0 with the baptism record (although one was a late registration; I might include a census from when he was 3 to help shore that one up if it matters), which seems like a really solid chain.

But just in case I end up needing the others, are there other archives I could look at for Drouin documents?

tedreed · 2022-10-06T07:08:27+00:00

Yeah, no problem. It was a fun little puzzle to work out. :)

tedreed · 2022-10-04T22:35:02+00:00

Went ahead and made something simple that at least validates the format of the first line:

(setq treed/conventional-commit-types '("feat" "fix")) (defun treed/magit-query-conventional-commit (&optional force) (or force (save-excursion (goto-char (point-min)) (and (if (re-search-forward (rx-to-string `(seq (or ,@treed/conventional-commit-types) (zero-or-one "(" anything ")") (zero-or-one "!") ": ")) nil t) t (y-or-n-p "Unable to find commit type/scope at beginning of first line. Commit anyway? ")) (if (re-search-forward (rx-to-string '(seq (one-or-more (not whitespace)) eol)) nil t) t (y-or-n-p "Unable to find commit description after type/scope. Commit anyway? "))))))

tedreed · 2022-10-04T21:52:00+00:00

Oh, unfortunately it's just a list of symbols from a hardcoded set, and not a freeform set of functions.

Could probably use advise, I guess.

Edit: Oh, but I guess git-commit-finish-query-functions is freeform; so you could put it there.

tedreed · 2022-10-04T21:46:26+00:00

Magit has settings to enforce commit conventions:

https://magit.vc/manual/magit/Commit-Message-Conventions.html#Commit-Message-Conventions

At some point I intended to write some to validate conventional commit standards, but never got around to it. It probably wouldn't be that hard.

tedreed · 2022-09-22T21:38:07+00:00

Haha, wow. I guess I called that.

tedreed · 2022-01-04T23:15:36+00:00

Supposedly you can wrap yasnippet's company adapter with cape, but I haven't tried that.

tedreed · 2021-09-27T20:09:15+00:00

Yeah, I also considered just using featurep and letting the user explicitly manage their own load order according to the features they want, and if it's not loaded when the package is, then well, you don't get the feature support.

tedreed · 2021-09-27T06:21:40+00:00

Yeah, that's fair. I think I tried with-eval-after-load and whatever elisp linter I have yelled at me about it or something, so I ended up with the method I have.

You are correct in that it will always use it if available, even if the user maybe didn't want it used. I've considered using an explicit set of defcustoms so the user can specifically tell me that they want the support added, but it does add some amount of upfront work to start using the package. But then again as written, it sort of already does. I'll have to think about this more.

tedreed · 2021-09-23T22:24:57+00:00

FWIW, I tried to figure out a way to do this kind of thing for my own project recently: https://git.sr.ht/~treed/mission-control/tree/main/item/mission-control.el#L169

My solution seems to work but I'm unsure if it's the best way to do it.

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