Application for Canadian citizenship – Canadian Armed Forces under Subsection 5(1.2) or 5(1.3) (CIT 0532)

What is your preferred language for correspondence and interview? English or French?

Check the box to indicate if you have any special needs that require accommodation. If yes, please explain.

Special needs are described as:

• wheelchair access
• sign language interpretation (for example, deaf individuals may have a sign language interpreter to assist with the assessment of “listening and speaking” ability
• personal assistance (for example, you will be accompanied by a care attendant, an interpreter, a service animal, a sighted guide, etc.)
• materials in accessible formats (for example, the study guide is available in large print, audio version or Braille)
• If the special need is not listed, please explain in the space provided

Have you applied for Canadian Citizenship before? If yes, write the year when you last applied.

Copy the Client ID# or Unique Client Identifier (UCI) exactly as it appears on your most recent immigration document. Immigration documents include:

• Work permit (IMM 1102 or IMM1442B)
• Permanent Resident Card (PR Card)
• Confirmation of Permanent Residence (IMM 5292 or IMM 5688)
• Record of Landing (IMM 1000)
  • If there is no client ID number listed, provide the document number located at the bottom right corner that begins with a W followed by 9 digits (Example: W 012 345 678)

Write your last name (surname/family name) and given name(s) exactly as they appear on your immigration document. If your name was shortened (truncated) on the immigration document, it will appear in full length on your citizenship certificate, up to 50 characters for the family name(s) and 50 characters for the given name(s).

Write your current last name (surname/family name) and given name(s), if different from question 3B.

Important information: You must provide supporting documents for any change in your name. See: “Name Change” in the Gather Documents section.

Write if you:

• have used another name in the past (such as your birth name, married name), or
• are known by a name other than the one you listed above (such as a nickname or community name).

Write your:

• date of birth exactly as it appears on your immigration document (examples are noted in Question 3A above), and
• place of birth, including the city or town and country.

Are you requesting a different date of birth on your citizenship certificate?

If yes, see Date of birth correction section in the guide, under Gather Documents.

Check the box or indicate your:

• gender (whether you are F Female, M Male or X Another gender)
• height (how tall you are), either in centimeters or feet/inches
• eye colour, and
• legal marital status.

Important information: This information must be completed for our records. Gender, eye colour and height will be shown on your citizenship certificate.

Write your current home address, complete with:

• street address
• city or town
• province or territory
• postal code

Complete if mailing address is different from home address.

If the mailing address is that of a representative, you must indicate their mailing address(es) in this section and complete the IMM 5476 form (opens in new tab) .

List the telephone number(s) where you can be reached.

Write how long you have lived at your current home address.

Indicate your email address using this format (if applicable): name@provider.net

If you provide your email address, IRCC may correspond with you about your application via email if necessary.

If the email address is that of a representative, you must indicate their e mail address in this section and complete the IMM 5476 form (opens in new tab) .

Check the box to indicate if you are a permanent resident (landed immigrant). If yes, write the date when you became a permanent resident (landed immigrant).

To find this date, refer to your:

• Record of Landing – IMM 1000
• Confirmation of Permanent Residence – IMM 5292
• Confirmation of Permanent Residence – IMM 5688
• Permanent Resident Card

Your entry to Canada and your status will be verified by Canadian officials.

If conditions were imposed at the time you were granted permanent resident status that you have not complied with, you should contact your local IRCC office to clarify this situation before applying for citizenship. You cannot be granted citizenship if you have unfulfilled (outstanding) conditions relating to your status as a permanent resident.

Write the date when you first came to Canada to live.

List all countries of which you are a citizen.

Write if you are a permanent resident (or the equivalent) of any country other than Canada.

If yes, list the country (countries) and the date(s) you obtained this status.

Write all your Canadian addresses for the six (6) years immediately before the date of your application, including the postal codes.

If you were residing, employed or attending school outside Canada, you must also list all your foreign addresses, including the postal codes.

1. Check the box to indicate if you are or were enrolled in the Canadian Armed Forces during the six (6) years immediately before the date of your application. If yes, provide the details.
2. Check the box to indicate if you are or were attached or seconded to the Canadian Armed Forces during the six (6) years immediately before the date of your application. If yes, provide the details.
3. Check the box to indicate if you were released from the Canadian Armed Forces during the six (6) years immediately before the date of your application. If yes, provide the date of release and check the box to indicate the category of release.

   Note: Categories of release must be either

   • Other than honourable release (Item 1, Misconduct; Item 2, Unsatisfactory Service)
   • Honourable release (Item 3, Medical; Item 4, Voluntary; Item 5, Service Completed)
   • as set out in the Queen’s Regulation and Orders, Article 15.01 Release of Officers and Non-Commissioned Members.

Under the Income Tax Act

• you may need to file income tax returns for 3 taxation years
• these 3 years must be fully or partially within the 6 years before you apply for citizenship

Find out if you need to file your taxes

Check the box to indicate if you have a social insurance number (SIN), a temporary tax number (TTN) or an individual tax number (ITN).

If you check “Yes”

• Provide the most recent number that you used to file your income taxes (SIN, TTN or ITN).
• For the past 6 taxation years
  • write the years for which you needed to file personal income taxes
  • under Required to file column
    • check “Yes” if you needed to file your income tax that year.
    • check “No” if you didn’t need to file a tax return that year
  • under Taxes filed column
    • check “Yes” if you filed a tax return that year
    • check “No” if you didn’t file a tax return that year

With your consent, we’ll

• share your income tax filing information with the CRA
• use this information to check if you meet the income tax filing and physical presence requirements of the Citizenship Act

If you don’t provide your consent, we’ll return your application to you without processing it.

If you check “No”

You’re declaring that you don’t have a SIN, TTN or ITN.

To check your personal tax information, you may refer to the CRA’s My Account online.

Answer all of the questions by checking yes or no. For any yes responses provide details and if applicable, attach court documents.

You may be required to provide fingerprints and/or court documents to ensure that you are not prohibited under the Citizenship Act.

If your application is approved you will be issued a citizenship certificate as proof of citizenship. Citizenship certificates come in either paper or electronic (printable PDF) format. Citizens can have only one type of certificate but are allowed to print a copy of their electronic certificate.

Check the box next to the type of citizenship certificate that you would like to receive, either paper or electronic citizenship certificate.

Unless you have requested a paper certificate, you must provide an email address in the application form to receive your e-certificate.

Check either "Yes" or "No" to indicate whether you authorize IRCC to provide your name, address and preferred official language to your federal Member of Parliament so that they can send you a letter of congratulations if you become a Canadian citizen.

Check either Yes or No to indicate whether or not you authorize IRCC to provide your name, residential and mailing address, gender, date of birth, Unique Client Identifier (UCI) and the date your citizenship was granted to Elections Canada in order to add you to the National Register of Electors (the Register). When you become a Canadian citizen and are 18 years of age or older, you have the right to vote in federal elections and referendums. Elections Canada maintains the Register and uses it during a federal election or referendum to produce voters’ lists and to communicate with eligible voters.

The Canada Elections Act also allows Elections Canada to provide voter information to provincial and territorial election agencies for uses permitted under their respective legislations and to provide voter information (name, address, and gender only) to members of Parliament, registered political parties and candidates at election time. The UCI and the date your citizenship was granted will only be used by Elections Canada for administrative purposes, and will not be shared by Elections Canada except as required by law.

If you check “Yes”, IRCC will provide your name, residential and mailing address, gender, date of birth, UCI and the date your citizenship was granted to Elections Canada in order to add you to the Register, but only after you become a Canadian citizen. If you check “No”, IRCC will not provide your information to Elections Canada. You will still have the right to vote in federal elections and referendums, but you will have to take the necessary steps to be added to the list.

More information about the Register and its uses is available at Elections Canada. You can also call Elections Canada at 1-800-463-6868.

If you are 18 years or older and reside in Québec, indicate whether you authorize IRCC to provide your name, residential address and the date at which you started to reside at that address, gender, date of birth, your Unique Client Identifier (UCI) and the date your citizenship was granted to the Chief Electoral Officer of Québec so that your name can be added to the Permanent List of Electors (voters) if you become a Canadian citizen.

Your application for citizenship will in no way be affected by your answer to this question.

The Election Act allows the Chief Electoral Officer of Québec to:

• provide voter information to provincial political parties and members of the National Assembly as well as municipal and school boards to compile and update lists of electors (voters) for municipal and school elections, and
• notify the elector in writing that their name has been entered on the permanent list of electors, requesting that the elector correct or complete the information which concerns them, where required.

The Chief Electoral Officer of Québec receives the UCI for administrative purposes only, while the date your citizenship was granted allows them to validate that you qualify as an elector based on the electoral laws it administers. This information is subject to no other use or communication.

If you do not provide this authorization, you will still be able to vote, but you will have to go to the revision office and present two supporting documents to register your name on the list of electors to be able to vote in a provincial, municipal or school election.

Check “Yes” box to authorize IRCC to contact the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) or the Department of National Defence (DND) to verify the details of your service and to use the information to determine your citizenship eligibility. By selecting “Yes” you are also authorizing the CAF or the DND to provide the details of your service to IRCC.

Subsection 8(1) of the Privacy Act and paragraph 241(5)(b) of the Income Tax Act allows the CRA to provide personal information to IRCC, with the consent of the relevant individuals.

This consent is required under paragraph 2(2)(d) of the Citizenship Regulations.

Check “Yes” box to authorize the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) to provide details of your tax filing information to IRCC. By selecting “Yes” you are also authorizing IRCC to collect your tax filing information from the CRA in order to determine whether you meet the income tax requirement for citizenship.

This section is to be completed ONLY if you successfully completed LINC/CLIC language training program at CLB/NCLC 4 from January 2008-October 2012 and you have no certificate available.

Check “Yes” box to authorize IRCC to access your LINC/CLIC results in order to determine your citizenship eligibility.

If you choose “No”, you will be required to submit alternate acceptable proof of language ability with your application.

If you appoint this person, firm or organization as your representative, you must complete the Use of a Representative Form (IMM 5476) (opens in new tab) . Note that once you appoint a representative, all correspondence from IRCC regarding your application will be directed to them and not to you.

Sign and date the application form with the signature you currently use on other official documents.

Your application will be returned to you if the form is:

• not signed and dated,
• stale-dated (dated more than 90 days before IRCC receives it),
• post-dated (dated into the future).
• you have appointed an individual, firm or organization as your representative and you did not submit the Use of a Representative form (IMM 5476) with your application or the form you submitted is incomplete.
• you appoint a compensated representative who is not:
  • a member of the designated body (a consultant who is in good standing of the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants (CICC)
  • a lawyer or paralegal who is a member in good standing of a Canadian provincial or territorial law society and a student-at-law under their supervision; or
  • a notary who is a member in good standing of the Chambre des notaires du Québec or a student-at-law under their supervision.