Obtaining estranged mother's birth certificate?

[hawk39]

It DOES matter if Adam's mother is a US Citizen vs PR, cuz in the latter she wouldn't be renouncing anything in that process of becoming a PR vs US Citizen which you do at the ceremony of the same.

Nope, Canada doesn't recognized renunciations said as part of another country's citizenship oath, such as the US. The only way to officially renounce Canadian citizenship is if you apply for a renunciation, and after an investigation into if you are eligible for renunciation, you would then renounce it in front of a government official, where then you would get a certificate of renunciation that formalizes your renunciation.

I'm curious, if my mother renounced her Canadian citizenship and I was already born, would that honestly somehow renounce my own citizenship?

No; since you were born after the commencement of the 1977 Act, if your mother was Canadian when you are born, whatever happens to her status after your birth does not effect your status, so you don't have to worry about that.

 

[Wyfarer]

Ah, interesting hawk, thanks for that. But doesn't in my situation an action taken (thinking grandfather's naturalization) create another action automatically? I'm thinking of some issues vensak seem to raise in my thread.

 

[hawk39]

Ah, interesting hawk, thanks for that. But doesn't in my situation an action taken (thinking grandfather's naturalization) create another action automatically? I'm thinking of some issues vensak seem to raise in my thread.

It did back then, your mother most likely lost her British subject status when her father (your grandfather) obtained US citizenship. Multiple citizenship was recognized by Canada by the 1977 Act, but it did not retroactively return citizenship to those that had lost it by naturalizing in another country, as directed in the 1947 Act; those people became known as "Lost Canadians". This was remedied first in the 2009 Act, which restored citizenship to those that had lost it because of the 1947 Act. In the case of your mother, her citizenship was granted by the 2015 Act under 3(1)(k), which benefited British subjects that lost their status before the 1947 Act; as a result of this, your claim to citizenship by descent would be because of 3(1)(g).

 

[Wyfarer]

It did back then, your mother most likely lost her British subject status when her father (your grandfather) obtained US citizenship. Multiple citizenship was recognized by Canada by the 1977 Act, but it did not retroactively return citizenship to those that had lost it by naturalizing in another country, as directed in the 1947 Act; those people became known as "Lost Canadians". This was remedied first in the 2009 Act, which restored citizenship to those that had lost it because of the 1947 Act. In the case of your mother, her citizenship was granted by the 2015 Act under 3(1)(k), which benefited British subjects that lost their status before the 1947 Act; as a result of this, your claim to citizenship by descent would be because of 3(1)(g).

Thanks hawk; copied, pasted, and printed for reference down the road.