Canada welcomes more new Canadians – Citizenship Stats

The usual monthly update on citizenship processing, showing CIC on track to eliminating the backlog through a doubling of the number of new Canadians:

Approximately 33,700 people from 199 countries became Canadian citizens at citizenship ceremonies held across Canada in March 2014. This is almost twice as many compared to March 2013 when 17,089 people were granted citizenship across Canada…

So far in 2014, Canada has welcomed more than 75,900 new citizens at 759 ceremonies across Canada. Comparatively, in the first three months of 2013, Canada welcomed 35,320 new Canadians.

Canada welcomes more new Canadians – Canada News Centre.

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News Release — Improving the Citizenship Application Process

Behind the press release – a dramatic drop of 37 percent in number of new citizens – from 181,000 to 113,000 in 2012.

News Release — Improving the Citizenship Application Process.