Seeking dual citizenship

[Kay0ss]

I am the son and granddaughter of a deceased Canadian citizen. She lived and died in Alberta for over forty years. Do you just apply or do you still need a sponser. I am looking to retire soon and to retire to Canada. Looking for dual citizenship for myself and my adult daughter.

 

[vensak]

It depends on how did she get her citizenship (born in Canada or she was naturalised).
If she was born there you as first generation have right for citizenship. However your daughter does not have this anymore, and you will have to get yours first, then apply for sponsorship for her.
If your mother was however naturalised, then you do not have this right.

But to check this thing exactly, you should contact a good lawyer.

 

[scylla]

I am the son and granddaughter of a deceased Canadian citizen. She lived and died in Alberta for over forty years. Do you just apply or do you still need a sponser. I am looking to retire soon and to retire to Canada. Looking for dual citizenship for myself and my adult daughter.

Most likely you are entitled to Canadian citizenship but your daughter is not.

You may or may not qualify to sponsor your daughter for permanent residency. It's possible she may have to qualify to immigrate to Canada all on her own. This depends on a number of things including whether your mother has any remaining family members in Canada and who they are, your daughter's age, etc.

FYI - you don't need a lawyer and good ones are very expensive (while bad ones will mess up your application). Wander over to the citizenship section of the forum and repost your questions there with a great deal more details (e.g. when your mother was born, when you were born, when your daughter was born, how and when your mother became a citizen, whether you have any other family in Canada).

 

[Leon]

I am the son and granddaughter of a deceased Canadian citizen. She lived and died in Alberta for over forty years. Do you just apply or do you still need a sponser. I am looking to retire soon and to retire to Canada. Looking for dual citizenship for myself and my adult daughter.

You can apply for a citizenship certificate here: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/citizenship/proof-how.asp There are a couple of users here who are really well informed about citizenship law and changes in it in the past decades but actually the simplest way is just to apply and see what happens. I guess it is possible that you are deemed to have already been a Canadian citizen at the time your daughter was born and so in that case, it is possible that she qualifies too. See if you get yours, then try applying for her.

If not, she is hard to sponsor because she is an adult. However, Canada allows you to sponsor one other relative if you have no close relatives in Canada and nobody else that you can sponsor so you are not currently married, you don't have a living parent that you could sponsor and no close relatives in Canada either, you could sponsor your daughter as "one other relative". Another option would be if your daughter is disabled and dependent on you since she was a child. In that case, you could still sponsor her as a dependent child.