Hello fellow canadavisa denizens! I need your help with the non-trivial matter.
My wife is currently pregnant. We are both canadian PR and both mailed our citizenship applications sometime ago but of course due to covid we are not expecting to hear back until probably next year.
So in the meantime I have been offered a very good job in the US. Obviously right now everything is closed but chances are by end of summer embassies will reopen and cross-border traffic will be restored at least to some degree.
So if my wife gives birth in the US but we won't be Canadian citizens by the time the child is born, he or she won't be Canadian by descent. That's clear.
Whats not clear is what should we do for him/her if we decide to return to Canada in couple of years?
Obvisouly if by some luck we get our citizenship ceremony before the childbirth the question is moot, but that is very unlikely.
My wife is currently pregnant. We are both canadian PR and both mailed our citizenship applications sometime ago but of course due to covid we are not expecting to hear back until probably next year.
So in the meantime I have been offered a very good job in the US. Obviously right now everything is closed but chances are by end of summer embassies will reopen and cross-border traffic will be restored at least to some degree.
So if my wife gives birth in the US but we won't be Canadian citizens by the time the child is born, he or she won't be Canadian by descent. That's clear.
Whats not clear is what should we do for him/her if we decide to return to Canada in couple of years?
Obvisouly if by some luck we get our citizenship ceremony before the childbirth the question is moot, but that is very unlikely.