Hello all,

My family was planning to leave Canada after applying for citizenship (after completion of 1095 days of physical presence). There are some urgent matters back in India that cannot be sorted out from here - hence the move.
While they are away, do they need to continue paying the provincial health insurance premium for the sake of a "smooth" citizenship processing of their applications? Although it will be an overhead if we do this, for sake of smooth processing (i.e. avoid RQ, citizenship judge etc.) it might be good to continue paying the premium at least till the citizenship test is cleared?

Please let me know if you have any comments/suggestions.

Thanks,
VD

No, the two things are independent of each other.
If you have met the residency requirements and have applied for citizenship via due process, there is no dependency on maintaining your health coverage.

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