Dual Citizenship

[BonnieL]

My mom was a Canadian citizen that was required to relinquish her citizenship when she moved to the US in 1961. She became a naturalized US citizen at that time.
I have recently been told that her Canadian citizenship could be reinstated and as a dual citizenship and that her children could also apply to have dual citizenship.
My mom passed away in September, 2017 however, I have all of her documentation as well as family that still live in Canada.
Two questions - is what I have been told true? If so is it possible to obtain dual citizenship even though my mother has passed away and if it is, how do my brother and I apply?

 

[hawk39]

Did your mother formally renounce her Canadian citizenship in the presence of a Canadian official when she became a US citizen? If she did not, then she never relinquished it and is still considered a Canadian citizen, and her children (you and your brother) are also Canadian citizens by descent. Her death does not impact your ability to apply for proof of citizenship, which you can start here: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/canadian-citizenship/proof-citizenship.html.

However, if she did formally renounce it, then it was not reinstated when then 2009 Act came into effect, which resumed citizenship to those that had to involuntarily renounce it. In this case, the only way for her children to be citizens by descent is if they (you and your brother) were born before she formally renounce it.

 

[BonnieL]

Thank you.