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We have family there that we routinely visit. It doesn't make any sense that within one family one child is a citizen and the other isn't; that is a disadvantage to one child and arbitrary/disparate treatment. I cannot move to Canada because my type of employment is localized, although if I...

Well, I got one child who's Canadian and the other who's not - that doesn't seem like rational policy. There's also a big difference between my affirmative steps in the 1980's to become Canadian with an oath at a consulate, and someone who passively became Canadian and doesn't even know or...

hawk39 stated, "Those that had applied for the grant (a.k.a. naturalization) under 5(2)(b) of the 1977 Act had their citizenship converted to be by descent with the 2009 Act, so since then, you would be considered a citizen by descent under 3(1)(h) of the current Citizenship Act. Under the first...

Thanks hawk39 for your explanations; they help a lot. The 2009 law to me as a matter of policy seems to be nonsensical where within a single family some children are citizens and others aren't. The conversion of previously naturalized citizens to passive "descent" status doesn't seem fair...

My child born in 2010 applied in 2010 for citizenship but was denied. Didn't Canada have a rough rule that children of Canadian fathers were Canadian automatically, but the children of Canadian mothers had to apply and take an oath? I thought the Supreme Court overruled that requirement...

My mother was born in Canada in 1924. She served in the Canadian Army during Korea. She married an American and moved to the US. My mother always remained Canadian. I was born in the US in 1965. I lived in Canada for a year in the late 1960's, and have been back for vacations and a summer...

Just out of curiosity, I'd have to ask what could be the policy to cut citizenship ties with the child of someone who actively made application for citizenship and took an oath (versus passively becoming a citizen by operation of law - and not even knowing it or caring). It would seem that...

Leon - Thanks much!

Hi. Can someone answer this one? Grandmother born in Canada in 1920. She marries an American in 1950 and resides in US but stays Canadian. Father (grandmother's son) is born in 1960's but becomes Canadian by formal application and oath in 1982 (based on Grandmother's citizenship). Father...

Hi. Can someone answer this one? Grandmother born in Canada in 1920. She marries an American in 1950 and resides in US but stays Canadian. Father (grandmother's son) is born in 1960's but becomes Canadian by formal application and oath in 1982 (based on Grandmother's citizenship). Father...