I had sent my citizenship application during the last week of August and have still not received a letter of confirmation for the application from CIC. After many tries to the CIC call center I finally got hold of a customer service rep. who told me that the applications received after August 9th have not been opened with no knowledge of when hey will be opened (I hope soon). Now my question is due to long processing times (upto 15 months) is it possible for me to be out of Canada while my application is being processed?