Can a child with right to citizenship come to Canada as PR?

[tracker_01]

Hello,

I'm naturalized Canadian citizen who also holds another citizenship (Country X), my wife has visitor visa in Canada and citizenship of Country X. I have 2 questions:

a) If our child is born in Country X, will he automatically become Canadian citizen, or will he only have right to claim Canadian citizenship?
b) Assuming that answer to a) is only right to claim, then can I sponsor my child and bring him to Canada as Permanent Resident? (i.e. I do not want him to have Canadian citizenship)

Reason: Country X does not allow dual citizenship. I would like our child to preserve citizenship of Country X.

Thank you.


Additional info:
I spoke to 4 different immigration lawyers: One said child automatically Canadian citizen, while three others said he will only have right to claim Canadian citizenship. So, provided that 3 lawyers are right, I would like my child to obtain citizenship of Country X and bring him to Canada as a permanent resident. Has anyone in this community had actually done this? Any feedback is appreciated.

 

[keesio]

Assuming that the child is born after you have become a naturalized citizen, your child will automatically be Canadian because he is the child of a naturalized Canadian.

If Country X does not allow dual citizenship and you want to keep citizenship of country X for your child, then I'm not sure how this works. I'm not even sure a minor can renounce citizenship. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable can answer.

 

[Bs65]

I am not an expert but to me seems the OP has some stark choices to make for their child.

As previous poster said child is automatically a Canadian citizen born to a Canadian citizen even if abroad. So technically could already be said to be a dual citizen even if not in possession of a certificate or passport.

Common sense says that if the OP applies as a Canadian citizen to sponsor PR for the child then the fact that the child is Canadian citizen through the OP as parent will come to light even if born in country X just in completing the paperwork.

As a Canadian citizen the child of course cannot also be a PR so not sure if even if possible for a parent to renounce a childs right to citizenship others can comment.

If it were possible to renounce then surely a parent would need to think ahead in making that decision when the child is no longer a minor and is able to make their own choices that they were at one point a Canadian as might be harder to get the citizenship back than renounce. Then again same argument applies if renouncing country X.

Ultimately I guess depends where the OP sees the childs future country X or Canada , given the intention to apply for PR I assume Canada . Even if the intention to retain country X citizenship seems like a good idea now how will that stand with the child later in life when no longer a minor and just a PR in Canada with none of the citizens rights ?

As said i am no expert so this is simply a personal interpretation.