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Are you eligible?

To get the CCB, you must meet all of the following conditions:

• You must live with the child, and the child must be under 18 years of age.
• You must be the person primarily responsible for the care and upbringing of the child.

• Leaving Ontario for more than 30 days in the first six months immediately after establishing residence in Ontario will impact your OHIP coverage and affect the start date of your three-month waiting period.
• It can result in a new three-month waiting period being applied as most new and returning residents to Ontario are required to be physically present in Ontario for 153 days in the first 183 days after residence is established in Ontario in order to maintain OHIP coverage.
• The requirement to be physically present in Ontario for 153 days in the first 183 days after residence is established in Ontario only applies to new or returning residents:
  • Who move to Ontario from another country or
  • Who move to Ontario from another province/territory where they were not covered by the health insurance of that province/territory

STEP 8 - PREPARE FOR THE RESIDENCE QUESTIONNAIRE

After submitting your citizenship application, you might be asked to fill out a residence questionnaire (RQ). Not everyone gets asked to fill out an RQ. The RQ helps CIC determine whether or not you have lived in Canada for 4 of the 6 years before you applied for citizenship.

If you get asked to fill out an RQ, you will be asked to submit documents showing that you fulfilled the residency requirements. These documents might include things like travel documents and records, bills, school records, leases or pay stubs...etc. You can prepare for this in advance by collecting as much information about your stay in Canada as you can.


Note that if you get asked to fill out an RQ, your citizenship application is considered a "Non-Routine Citizenship Application" and may be delayed.

For persons who have been permanent residents of Canada for more than five years, the only five-year period that can be considered in calculating whether an applicant has met the residency obligation is the one immediately before the application is received in the visa office. A28(2)(b)(ii) precludes a visa officer from examining any period other than the most recent five-year period immediately before the date of receipt of the application.