Want to move back to Canada with my U.S. born children

[sus2924]

I am a Canadian citizen with a U.S. Green card, and have been living in the U.S. for about 10 years. I have 2 children who are U.S. Citizens, and I am now divorced. I had it written in to the divorce settlement that I am allowed to take the kids to live in Canada, and now I want to do so. Can anyone give me advice on how to go about this? What am I going to need as proof that I have permission to take the kids to Canada? Will a copy of my divorce settlement be enough? Do I have to wait to move back until I get Canadian Citizenship Certificates and Canadian Passports for the kids? Help please!!!

 

[Leon]

I assume you have some court order or permission to take the kids to Canada. If you are asked at the border, it would be very helpful to have something like that to show them.

As for the citizenship certificates, you can apply through the embassy now, processing time around 9 months unless you give some good reason why you need to expedite, for example moving to Canada, need to enroll kids in school and get them health cards, then they could do it faster.

Or if you move to Canada and then apply, the processing time is 6 months but you could still ask to expedite.