baby born outside canada to a canadian citizen father

[coolland]

hi

i am a canadian citizen i have been in canada for 10 years now, i got married on march,2010 outside canada (backhome) and i sopnserd my wife but her application still under prosess, my wife is pregnant and she expect to deliver the baby on november 2010, so if my baby born outside canada does he or she still a canadian citizen? if not how can i bring my baby to canada togather with his/her mother? please help me.

 

[kemeshia]

You would have to apply for the baby's citizenship.

 

[coolland]

thanks alot for answering my qestion .
Do you know how long it takes to apply for the baby's citizenship card

 

[kemeshia]

Every case can be different, but you can look it up on the cic website.

 

[coolland]

Thank you so much

 

[chelley]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that you should be applying for proof of citizenship and not citizenship itself....... Technicality but it should also make it easier to travel to Canada with the baby before applying... My daughter was born in the us and it was a very simple process to get her citizenship card.... One form and a 75cad fee if I remember correctly... Took some 6m to process, and I don't think I could get her SIN card until after i got the proof of citizenship (couldnt open resp without that)...I know things have changed some, so do check out the CIC site... There's an assessment tool that should tell you all you need to know

 

[chelley]

Btw I brought my daughter over before applying... I'm thinking there are emergency travel papers or a visa that can be granted to babies that are citizens by birthright... Check with the Canadian embassy directly... My daughter didn't need anything special (us citizen before passport laws were in effect tho)....

Good luck and congrats

 

[coolland]

chelly..thank you so much for the great information, i am so worried that my wife will give birth outside canada (backhome) and her application is still in prosesss, and i want to bring the baby to canada..i was like blind dont know what to do because i dont know much about the immigration law and some people they scare me by saying i will not be able to bring my baby becaue he/she was born outside canada. but now i will check the immigration site hope i will be able to find the information you told me. thanks again.

 

[CharlieD10]

As long as you were not also born outside of Canada, the child can inherit your Canadian citizenship, so get an idea of what paperwork you need from CIC, and get the process started

Don't let others scare you about not being able to bring your child home!

 

[chelley]

Charlie... Since he became a citizen thru immigration the baby is still entitled... It's only children of citizens who got their citizenship by birthright (not born in Canada) who are no longer eligible by the new rules (well, not ONLY, but that's where the distinction lies... Just so we don't have 3 generations of canadians in a family who have never set foot in the country )

 

[CharlieD10]

Yeah Chelley, I read up on those rules too, some people were trying to tell me that if hubby and I got pregnant, our child would not be able to claim his citizenship by descent.

 

[chelley]

Nah... (s)he'd be fine... No worries... Other than giving birth in a jamaica hospital

 

[Leon]

Right, once the baby is born, apply for the baby's citizenship card at the embassy. After you have applied for it, you can apply for the baby's temporary Canadian passport if you want to travel to Canada. If you are planning on moving to Canada soon, you can ask them to expedite the citizenship card. The official timeline for a citizenship card is something like a year while you may get it in as little as a month if you ask them to expedite.

The only difference for your child in being a Canadian born outside Canada is that s/he will not be able to pass on citizenship to his/her children if they are born outside Canada as well.

 

[CharlieD10]

Nah... (s)he'd be fine... No worries... Other than giving birth in a jamaica hospital

Haha...I told hubby to not even think about having a baby until we have sorted ourselves out with Immigration. He has a genetic condition which is more likely to be inherited by a son, and that being the case, I want to be somewhere where the baby has the most modern medical care available. When hubby was treated here for it in Jamaica, it took them almost 9 hours just to assess his condition and get him treated, even though we had a letter from his doctor detailing the condition and his normal treatment!

 

[coolland]

hey guys i just want to tell you that myself i was born outside canada i came to canada 10 years ago and i became a canadian citizen, and now my wife is pregenant and she is back home, so you think it will be easy to seek temporary canadian passport for my baby from the nerset canadian embassy!!! how about if my wife got the visa after she gave birth to her baby ..i think she is going to lose the visa while she is wating for the baby visa!!! i am soooo confusing.!!! plz help me