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.Sorry--meant to add that I recently got my own certificate, with effective date my birth date.

I'm curious about the effective date on the mother's new certificate of citizenship. Was it the date of her birth? That would seem to strengthen the argument for the daughter.

Hello Maggie, I was on pretty much the same timeline as you describe for the Proof of Citizenship application. Mailed it in early January. It arrived at the office in NS on a fitting day--Trump's inauguration :-( My circumstances were much like yours. One American parent and one Canadian-born...

Similar story here: Two months start to finish to get my proof of citizenship, with a US birth certificate and one parent born in Canada. One suggestion: if a Canadian consulate is close to you, check to see if they can provide notary services for the documents you need to send. Can't hurt. Good...

I received my certificate 6 weeks after I got notification with case number, etc--and I never could find it in the case-tracking tool on the website. Good luck!

Happy to report I received my certificate of citizenship today in the mail. Very fast--just 6 weeks after I got the confirmation letter of receipt of the application.

A follow-up on my Proof of Citizenship application: Canadian consulate people in SF were very nice and efficient. They proposed they certify the copies of everything I had to send, my father's Canadian birth certificate as well as my own US docs (birth, marriage, and ID documents.) So I mailed...

They really are responsive at the SF Consulate! I e-mailed today to schedule the appointment (which are only done on Wednesdays between 9 and !2) and they wrote back and gave me an appointment for this coming Wednesday at 10. I already paid for a certified copy of my birth certificate...

Thank you! That also confirms what my son had concluded from his research. That my own citizenship claim seems solid, but I probably can't pass it along to him. But we figure it probably couldn't hurt. And it would certainly make travel and extended visits easier. Meanwhile, I got some...

Hello, I am new to this forum and find this thread very helpful, since I think it describes my family circumstances. I am a US citizen, female, born in the US to a Canadian-born father and a US-born mother. I am in the process of completing the application for a citizenship certificate, since...