מענק מואץ של הכוחות המזוינים הקנדיים (ס.5(1.2)/(1.3))

CA-NAT-03 הוא מענק אזרחות מואצת של הכוחות המזוינים הקנדיים (CAF), מסלול מהיר במסגרת s.5(1) לאזרחות למבוגרים המכירה בשירות צבאי. על פי חוק האזרחות, R.S.C. 1985, ג. C-29, s.5(1.2)/(1.3), תושב קבע המשרת ב-CAF או עם ה-CAF (או חבר צבאי זר שצמוד או מוקצה ל-CAF) שסיים שלוש שנים (1,095 ימים) של שירות CAF בתוך שש השנים (2,190 ימים) מיד לפני הגשת הבקשה, פטור מדרישת השחרור (c)-(1) מלבד שחרור (c)-1. בכבוד. זה לא סוג אזרחות נפרד: המבקש עדיין הופך לאזרח על ידי מענק ס.5(1); רק איבר התושבות מוחלף בשירות מזכה. כל שאר התנאים הסטנדרטיים של אזרחות ממשיכים לחול, לרבות (עבור מועמדים בגילאי 18 עד פחות מ-55) שפה נאותה ומבחן הידע בקנדה, האיסורים בסעיף 22, ושבועת האזרחות. IRCC מפרסמת זרם יישומים מהיר ייעודי. המסלול הוא מסלול בנפח נמוך אך מיושב המכבד את חברי השירות; דמי מענק למבוגרים בסך 653 דולר קנדי ​​חלים כמו על מבקשי סעיף 5(1) רגילים.

Three principal profiles fit CA-NAT-03. First, the permanent-resident CAF member: a landed immigrant who enlists (Regular or Reserve Force) and accumulates 1,095 days of service within a six-year window; they use the fast track to obtain citizenship without separately meeting the 1,095-day physical-presence test, though they remain subject to language, knowledge, and oath requirements. Second, the foreign military member on exchange attached or seconded to the CAF: this person need not hold permanent residence and is relieved of the tax-filing obligation, but must still complete the qualifying service and meet the remaining standard conditions. Third, the former member who has been released: they may use the fast track only if the release was honourable. The route particularly benefits members posted or deployed abroad, whose foreign deployment time would otherwise erode their in-Canada physical presence; qualifying CAF service substitutes for that presence. The route does not extend to family members in their own right (a spouse or child of a serving member instead relies on the separate ss.5(1.01)-(1.03) day-for-day presence credit and applies through the ordinary s.5(1) stream).

Applicants use the dedicated CAF citizenship application (the IRCC 'Application for Canadian Citizenship - Canadian Armed Forces' package), distinct from the standard adult CIT 0002 grant package. Core supporting documents mirror the adult s.5(1) grant under (document checklist CIT 0007) adapted for service: proof of permanent-resident status (PR card / Confirmation of Permanent Residence) for the PR class; two pieces of personal identification; and, for applicants aged 18 to less than 55, acceptable proof of English or French at CLB/NCLC Level 4 (e.g., results of an approved language test or evidence of education in English/French). Service-specific evidence is required to establish the 1,095 days of CAF service within the six-year window: certification of CAF service and, where applicable, evidence of honourable release. A foreign military member attached or seconded provides proof of the attachment/secondment to the CAF rather than PR documentation, and is not required to provide tax-filing proof. PR-class applicants provide proof of meeting income-tax filing obligations for three taxation years within the six-year window. Photographs and the signed application complete the package. Document standards (translation/certification) follow IRCC's general citizenship requirements.

The process tracks the ordinary citizenship grant, with the residency limb satisfied by service rather than presence: (1) confirm eligibility (1,095 days of CAF service in the prior six years; honourable status; all other standard conditions); (2) gather forms and documents using the CAF fast-track application package, including CAF service certification; (3) pay the applicable fees (the adult-grant fee of CAD 653, comprising CAD 530 processing plus the CAD 123 Right of Citizenship Fee) and submit the application; (4) IRCC reviews completeness and conducts prohibitions and admissibility checks; (5) if aged 18 to less than 55, the applicant is invited to take the citizenship test (knowledge of Canada) and to demonstrate language proficiency; (6) on approval, the applicant is scheduled for a citizenship ceremony and takes the Oath of Citizenship (required for those 14 and over); and (7) the citizenship certificate is issued, completing the grant. The fast-track designation is intended to speed handling; IRCC processes the application ahead of routine grants where service-member priority applies. Because the grant is mandatory under s.5(1) once the modified criteria are met, an officer's role is verification rather than discretion.

IRCC markets the CAF route as a 'fast-track' process that speeds up the citizenship application for permanent residents serving in the CAF and for foreign military members on exchange, but it does not publish a separate posted processing-time figure for the CAF stream as of 2026-06-01. The general posted processing time for an adult citizenship grant is about 13 months, against a published 12-month service standard in the IRCC 2026-27 Departmental Plan; CAF fast-track handling is intended to be faster than the routine queue but the precise expedited interval is not separately quantified on the CAF page. The live IRCC processing-time widget errored at fetch on 2026-06-01, so the 13-month general figure is taken from the canada.ca-indexed render and should be re-pinned same-day before being hard-cited; do not assert a numeric expedited CAF interval without a same-day IRCC confirmation. Members with a pressing operational need may also be eligible for urgent processing under the general urgent-processing route. [TEMPORAL CAVEAT: re-verify the live month-count at QA.]

המסלול המהיר של CAF נושא את עמלת מענק האזרחות הסטנדרטית למבוגרים, שהם 653 CAD בסך הכל נכון ל-2026-06-01, המורכבת מעמלת עיבוד של 530 CAD בתוספת דמי זכות האזרחות בסך 123 CAD (RCF). ה-RCF עלה מ-CAD 119.75 ל-CAD 123.00 החל מ-2026-03-31 (עמלת הטיפול נותרה ללא שינוי בסך 530.00 CAD) והיא חלה על בקשות שהתקבלו בתאריך זה או לאחר מכן; ה-RCF נצרף מדי שנה לפי חוק דמי השירות, כך שצפוי התאמה קטנה נוספת בסביבות אביב 2027. סך המענק למבוגרים מדור קודם בסך 630 CAD ו-RCF בסך 100 CAD או 119.75 CAD הם מיושנים ואין לציין אותם כעדכניים. אין תוספת או הנחה ספציפית למסלול CAF, ולא חלה עמלת השקעה או שירות מיוחד. איש צבא זר שצורף או מוקצה הפטור מדרישת יחסי הציבור בכל זאת משלם את אותה עמלת מענק לפי בקשה. (נתוני העמלות מוצמדים לרשימת העמלות של IRCC ולהודעת העלאת RCF; עובדות מספריות אינן מופקות מנתוני הכשרה.)

הסמכות הסטטוטורית האופרטיבית היא חוק האזרחות, R.S.C. 1985, ג. C-29, s.5(1.2) ו-s.5(1.3). סעיף 5(1.2) פוטר תושב קבע שהוא או היה חבר ב-CAF (או שצורף או הוצמד ל-CAF) ואשר סיים את השירות הנדרש מדרישת הנוכחות הפיזית בסעיף 5(1)(ג); סעיף 5(1.3) מספק את הכלל המקביל עבור המחלקה הקשורה ואת תנאי השחרור הנכבד. הוראות אלה פועלות כחריג במסגרת תכנית המענק למבוגרים של סעיף 5(1): סעיף 5(1) פותח את 'The Minister shall grant citizenship to any person who' עומד בקריטריונים המפורטים, כך שהמענק נשאר חובה ('shall') ברגע שהקריטריונים (השינויים) מתקיימים, כאשר שיקול הדעת נמצא רק במענקים המיוחדים של סעיף 5 ו(4). ההקוויוולנטיות הקשורות לכתר-שירות / CAF-נוכחות פיזית בסעיף 5(1.01)-(1.03) מזכה בן זוג או ילד של חבר CAF או עובד שירות ציבורי המשרתים בחו"ל ביום אחד עבור כל יום בחו"ל; אלה נבדלים מהמסלול המהיר לשירות עצמי של סעיף 5(1.2)/(1.3). הצעת חוק C-3 (S.C. 2025, c. 5, בתוקף 2025-12-15) לא תיקנה את ליבת מענקים למבוגרים ב-s.5(1) או את הוראות המסלול המהיר של CAF, אשר יציבות החל מ-2026-06-01.

The decision-maker is the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, acting through IRCC officers, under s.5(1) of the Citizenship Act; the statutory designation of the Minister is set at s.2(1). Because s.5(1) is framed as a mandatory grant ('The Minister shall grant citizenship to any person who' meets the criteria), the officer's function is to verify that the applicant meets the modified (service-substituted) eligibility set rather than to exercise discretion over whether to grant. Discretion within s.5 is confined to the s.5(3) compassionate waivers (language, knowledge, and, for minors, presence and oath) and the s.5(4) special grant; neither is the basis of the CAF fast track, which is a statutory exemption from the presence limb. Verification of CAF service and of honourable release is integral to the officer's assessment. The Federal Court is the 'Court' for the Act (s.2(1)) and the venue for judicial review of an unfavourable decision.

There is no statutory administrative appeal of a citizenship-grant refusal; the remedy is judicial review in the Federal Court (the 'Court' as defined in s.2(1) of the Citizenship Act). The presumptive standard of review for an IRCC officer's or the Minister's citizenship decision is reasonableness, established by Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) v. Vavilov, 2019 SCC 65, [2019] 4 SCR 653, with correctness reserved for limited categories such as constitutional questions and general questions of law of central importance to the legal system. On a CAF fast-track refusal, a reviewing court would assess whether the officer's conclusion (for example, that 1,095 days of qualifying service were not established, or that release was not honourable, or that a s.22 prohibition applied) was justified, transparent, and intelligible on the record. Leave is required to commence judicial review under the Citizenship Act / Federal Courts Act framework. As of 2026-06-01 there is no reported apex decision specific to the s.5(1.2)/(1.3) CAF exemption; Vavilov supplies the governing review standard, not a CAF-specific holding.

A grant of Canadian citizenship through the CAF fast track has the same dual-nationality consequence as any s.5(1) grant: Canada has permitted dual (and multiple) citizenship without restriction since 15 February 1977, the commencement of the Citizenship Act (S.C. 1974-75-76, c. 108), and the current Act contains no provision requiring an applicant to renounce a foreign citizenship on naturalization. A foreign military member attached or seconded to the CAF who is granted citizenship under this route therefore retains their original nationality so far as Canadian law is concerned; whether their country of origin permits the retention of that nationality on acquiring Canadian citizenship is a question of that other country's law and is outside Canadian jurisdiction (no cross-jurisdiction inference is drawn here). Canada imposes no automatic loss of Canadian citizenship on subsequent acquisition of a further foreign nationality; loss occurs only by renunciation (s.9) or revocation for fraud (s.10/10.1). Service members holding multiple nationalities should nonetheless consider any military or security implications under their other state's law.