HELP PLEASE!!! BABY'S ARE NEW ZEALAND CITIZENS FLYING TO CANADA

[Keratzlaff]

Hello!
I am a canadian citizen , my husband has his permanent residency approved but we have not landed yet do to me going into preterm labor and giving birth to twin girls at 28 weeks.

We need advice on what to do when we do fly home to canada. Does it make sense to land with the girls being visitors to canada and then apply for a citizenship certificate ?( does this mean they will need travel insurance?) what are our other options?

thanks
kristine

 

[agarand8]

If you are a Canadian citizen you need to contact the embassy. Your children are automatically Canadian citizens as well and the Canadian embassy in whichever country you are currently in will help you get the papers in order so you can travel with them.

 

[steaky]

If you are a Canadian citizen you need to contact the embassy. Your children are automatically Canadian citizens as well and the Canadian embassy in whichever country you are currently in will help you get the papers in order so you can travel with them.

Depending how the OP get her own Canadian citizenship, the children born in NZ might not be automatically Canadian citizens. However, since they would be NZ citizens and holding a visa exempted passport to Canada, they can be come to Canada without a visit visa regardless, and if applicable, can be sponsored for PR while they are in Canada.

I think if OP and family make Alberta their new home, the children can be added to the parents AHCIP account (therefore do not need the travel insurance).

http://www.health.alberta.ca/AHCIP/registration-requirements.html

 

[Leon]

You can bring the babies to Canada on their NZ passports. You can explain as you enter that you are a citizen and that you will be applying for them. The health care in your province may cover them based on that. You would have to ask them.

Alternatively, you can apply for their citizenship certificates and temporary passports through the Canadian embassy in NZ. The processing time for a citizenship certificate through an embassy is longer but if you have urgent need to travel, they can issue the temporary passport during the citizenship certificate processing time.

 

[screech339]

Hello!
I am a canadian citizen , my husband has his permanent residency approved but we have not landed yet do to me going into preterm labor and giving birth to twin girls at 28 weeks.

We need advice on what to do when we do fly home to canada. Does it make sense to land with the girls being visitors to canada and then apply for a citizenship certificate ?( does this mean they will need travel insurance?) what are our other options?

thanks
kristine

You have to be careful in your assumption that your children are automatically Canadian. Yes you are Canadian but are you canadian borne or naturalized Canadian. If you are, then your twins are Canadian by birth. You can apply for proof of Canadian citizenship for your twins once you entered Canada.

However if you acquired your Canadian citizenship by descent of one of your parents, then your twins will not acquire Canadian citizenship. If this is the case, you would have to delay the PR sponsorship and inform CIC that you are adding your 2 twins to the PR sponsorship.

Even if your twins are Canadians your husband will have to delay the landing and change the COPR to list your 2 children to the PR sponsorship as "all children must be listed, Canadian or otherwise". How will your husband land in Canada explain to CIC that he has 2 children not listed in COPR at landing. He can be refused PR status due to misrepresentation.

Screech339

 

[agarand8]

I owe an apology, I just assumed that when she said she was a citizen it was by birth, I didn't consider other possibilities. Sorry!

 

[screech339]

I owe an apology, I just assumed that when she said she was a citizen it was by birth, I didn't consider other possibilities. Sorry!

No apology is needed. It can be a misunderstanding. Sometimes not everyone are up to date on the new citizenship rules despite the new law was in placed since 2009.

 

[Leon]

Not that many people are affected but on the off chance that she is one of those people who was born outside Canada to a Canadian parent, she can still take her children to Canada on their NZ passport but instead of applying for citizenship for them, she would be sponsoring them for PR.