Hi everyone—
I’m an American citizen born in the US, and my father (now deceased) was a Canadian citizen born in Quebec. I recently found out that I am able to claim citizenship through descent and I would like to apply for a Canadian citizenship certificate. However, the only documentation I have proving my father’s Canadian citizenship is his baptismal certificate from Quebec issued in 1927, well before the legal 1994 cutoff date. (My father never applied for a new Canadian birth certificate after the 1994 law went into effect, as he lived his last few decades in the USA and then died there in 2000.)
Since renewing a dead person’s birth certificate is obviously not a possibility, will I be able to get away with submitting his original baptismal certificate as his proof of birth, or am I out of options?
Many thanks for any help or insight!
I’m an American citizen born in the US, and my father (now deceased) was a Canadian citizen born in Quebec. I recently found out that I am able to claim citizenship through descent and I would like to apply for a Canadian citizenship certificate. However, the only documentation I have proving my father’s Canadian citizenship is his baptismal certificate from Quebec issued in 1927, well before the legal 1994 cutoff date. (My father never applied for a new Canadian birth certificate after the 1994 law went into effect, as he lived his last few decades in the USA and then died there in 2000.)
Since renewing a dead person’s birth certificate is obviously not a possibility, will I be able to get away with submitting his original baptismal certificate as his proof of birth, or am I out of options?
Many thanks for any help or insight!