Subvenção acelerada das Forças Armadas Canadenses (s.5(1.2)/(1.3))

CA-NAT-03 é a concessão de cidadania acelerada das Forças Armadas Canadenses (CAF), um processo acelerado dentro da estrutura de naturalização de adultos s.5(1) que reconhece o serviço militar. De acordo com a Lei da Cidadania, R.S.C. 1985, c. C-29, s.5(1.2)/(1.3), um residente permanente servindo na ou com a CAF (ou um militar estrangeiro vinculado ou destacado para a CAF) que tenha completado três anos (1.095 dias) de serviço na CAF dentro dos seis anos (2.190 dias) imediatamente antes da aplicação está isento do requisito de presença física s.5(1)(c), a menos que seja liberado de outra forma que não seja honrosamente. Esta NÃO é uma classe de cidadania separada: o requerente ainda se torna cidadão por meio de uma concessão s.5(1); apenas o membro da residência é substituído pelo serviço qualificado. Todas as outras condições padrão de cidadania continuam a ser aplicadas, incluindo (para candidatos com idade entre 18 e menos de 55 anos) idioma adequado e o teste de conhecimento do Canadá, as proibições na seção 22 e o Juramento de Cidadania. IRCC publica um fluxo de aplicativos acelerado dedicado. A rota é um caminho de baixo volume, mas estabelecido, que homenageia os militares; a taxa de subsídio para adultos de CAD 653 aplica-se como para candidatos comuns ao s.5(1).

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.]

O fast track da CAF inclui a taxa padrão de concessão de cidadania para adultos, que é de CAD 653 no total em 01/06/2026, composta por uma taxa de processamento de CAD 530 mais a Taxa de Direito de Cidadania (RCF) de CAD 123. O RCF aumentou de CAD 119,75 para CAD 123,00 a partir de 31/03/2026 (a taxa de processamento permaneceu inalterada em CAD 530,00) e se aplica a inscrições recebidas nessa data ou após essa data; o RCF é indexado anualmente de acordo com a Lei de Taxas de Serviço, portanto, um novo pequeno ajuste é esperado por volta da primavera de 2027. O legado total da subvenção para adultos de CAD 630 e um RCF de CAD 100 ou CAD 119,75 são obsoletos e não devem ser citados como atuais. Não há sobretaxa ou desconto específico para a rota CAF, e não se aplica nenhuma taxa de investimento ou serviço especial. Um militar estrangeiro destacado ou destacado que esteja isento da exigência de RP paga, no entanto, a mesma taxa de subvenção mediante solicitação. (Os valores das taxas estão fixados na lista de taxas do IRCC e no aviso de aumento do RCF; os fatos numéricos não são gerados a partir dos dados de treinamento.)

A autoridade estatutária operativa é a Lei da Cidadania, R.S.C. 1985, c. C-29, s.5(1,2) e s.5(1,3). A Secção 5(1.2) isenta um residente permanente que seja ou tenha sido membro da CAF (ou que esteja ou tenha sido vinculado ou destacado para a CAF) e que tenha completado o serviço exigido do requisito de presença física no s.5(1)(c); s.5(1.3) fornece a regra paralela para a classe relacionada e a condição de liberação honrosa. Estas disposições funcionam como uma exceção dentro do esquema de subsídio para adultos s.5(1): s.5(1) abre 'O Ministro concederá cidadania a qualquer pessoa que' atenda aos critérios enumerados, portanto a concessão permanece obrigatória ('deve') uma vez que os critérios (modificados) sejam atendidos, com discrição residindo apenas nas isenções s.5(3) e na concessão especial s.5(4). As equivalências de presença física relacionadas ao serviço da Coroa / CAF em ss.5(1.01)-(1.03) creditam ao cônjuge ou filho de um membro da CAF ou funcionário do serviço público servindo no exterior um dia para cada dia no exterior; eles são distintos do fast track de autoatendimento s.5(1.2)/(1.3). O projeto de lei C-3 (S.C. 2025, c. 5, em vigor em 15/12/2025) não alterou o núcleo de subsídios para adultos s.5(1) ou as disposições aceleradas da CAF, que são estáveis ​​em 01/06/2026.

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.