Hi everyone,
Suddenly it occurred to me that I have been away from Canada for 6 years now. Initially I was stuck abroad during covid, but then I took a great job in this country and have been living here. My Canadian passport had expired and I just renewed it a few months back from this country via mail. The new passport with 10 years validity came back and everything looks good.
Since I became a Canadian citizen by naturalizing back in 2014, I had known there are differences between born Canadians vs naturalized Canadians. I also think most of it had been changed in 2017, I am not sure.
However while googling it, I found this law website that says I need to maintain some residency requirement to continue being a Canadian citizen otherwise it will be revoked. I know PRs have residency requirements but I thought Canadian citizens can stay abroad forever if they wish and still be a Canadian.
Here is the law website that shows, Canadian citizenship can be revoked if I stayed away for more than 5 years.
I am planning to return home now in a few months, I have a brand new passport, will I be turned away at the border citing some bs reasons like you've been absent for 6 years? I mean why else would a law website write that? If a citizenship can be revoked that easily for things like this, then I am seriously questioning the stability of having a Canadian citizenship. I am very disappointed if this were true.
Can someone please clarify? Can naturalized citizens ever lose or have their citizenship revoked for "anything else" other than the obvious two (fraud during citizenship application and terrorism) What exactly was revoked in 2017 bill?
I can't help feel like somehow naturalized citizens a bit lower than natural born Canadians in hierarchy when it comes to rights after naturalization. Is it just as good?
This is the law website in question
Suddenly it occurred to me that I have been away from Canada for 6 years now. Initially I was stuck abroad during covid, but then I took a great job in this country and have been living here. My Canadian passport had expired and I just renewed it a few months back from this country via mail. The new passport with 10 years validity came back and everything looks good.
Since I became a Canadian citizen by naturalizing back in 2014, I had known there are differences between born Canadians vs naturalized Canadians. I also think most of it had been changed in 2017, I am not sure.
However while googling it, I found this law website that says I need to maintain some residency requirement to continue being a Canadian citizen otherwise it will be revoked. I know PRs have residency requirements but I thought Canadian citizens can stay abroad forever if they wish and still be a Canadian.
Here is the law website that shows, Canadian citizenship can be revoked if I stayed away for more than 5 years.
I am planning to return home now in a few months, I have a brand new passport, will I be turned away at the border citing some bs reasons like you've been absent for 6 years? I mean why else would a law website write that? If a citizenship can be revoked that easily for things like this, then I am seriously questioning the stability of having a Canadian citizenship. I am very disappointed if this were true.
Can someone please clarify? Can naturalized citizens ever lose or have their citizenship revoked for "anything else" other than the obvious two (fraud during citizenship application and terrorism) What exactly was revoked in 2017 bill?
I can't help feel like somehow naturalized citizens a bit lower than natural born Canadians in hierarchy when it comes to rights after naturalization. Is it just as good?
This is the law website in question
