Big news: Canada changed their citizenship rules and now if you've ever had a direct ancestor who was a citizen, you are now automatically a citizen too!

drmcstrange@kolektiva.social

Yeah, this seems pretty clear:

"This means that in most cases you’re automatically a Canadian citizen if you were born

before December 15, 2025
outside Canada to a Canadian parent

This rule also applies to you if you were born to someone who became Canadian because of these rule changes."

The act also specifies:

"A person who would not become a citizen under one of the paragraphs of subsection (1) for the sole reason that their parent or both their parent and their parent’s parent died before the coming into force of An Act to amend the Citizenship Act (2025) is a citizen under that paragraph if that parent — or both that parent and that parent’s parent — but for their death, would have been a citizen as a result of the coming into force of that Act."

If I'm reading that right, it still applies if your parent and grandparent are dead but your great-grandparent was a Canadian citizen.

delilahtech@tech.lgbt

@RachelThornSub
From what I've read in the past year, they're fine with stretching the point

I'm fourth gen through adoption, fifth by birth (it's a bit complicated); I have the names but I'd have to get birth certificates and such smh

I'm nowhere near able to move out of country, yet...
@rival_elf

fluffgar@mastodon.scot

@rival_elf Ever?!

I don't think I do (and it's probably not as important for me, being European) but it's possible.

cholling@bytes.programming.dev

@rival_elf I've read the linked document and I don't see where it says that.

bumblefish@mastodon.scot

@rival_elf @RachelThornSub "Second generation or later"...'later' here seems ambiguous. Later as in more recent? Or later as in prior to second? Don't get me wrong, the more Canadians the better, but the wording is confusing.

h5e@tech.lgbt

@cholling @rival_elf it seems to be recursive

saxifraga@lgbtqia.space

@rival_elf wait, what?? My grandfather was Canadian!!

janeadams@datavis.social

@rival_elf it looks like there’s a little bit more to it: if your grandparent was a citizen but your parent never became one, you have to prove that your grandparent was a citizen and that your parent spent at least 1,095 days (3 years non consecutively) in Canada before you were born. This applies to my dad (my great-grandfather was a citizen), but I think even if my dad got citizenship now under this rule the same 1095 day requirement would still stand for him for me to get it

lopta@mastodon.social

@rival_elf If only an uncle counted! #Canada

calicoday@mastodon.gamedev.place

@Bumblefish @rival_elf @RachelThornSub yes, I think second generation or later means second or first generation. A number of countries go back to grandparents.

flowerpot@mas.to

@rival_elf Huh. My grandmother was born in Canada (her family had just left Poland). But soon after she was born, they traveled to Florida (USA) where she was raised. I doubt she ever obtained citizenship, but it's worth it for me to investigate if I (and my son) qualify.

ianrogers@mstdn.social

@rival_elf Dang, I wish the EU would do the same

trainguyrom@techhub.social

@rival_elf now I need to ask my grandmother if she was a citizen when she lived in Toronto as a kid...

bit101@mstdn.social

@rival_elf OK, don't come crying to us when the flood of immigrants starts eating your dogs and cats! </sarcasm>

Sadly, I don't think anyone in my family was Canadian. Jealous.

henryk@chaos.social

@rival_elf https://youtu.be/YxfuTa0xNak?t=165

analogfusion@mastodon.art

@rival_elf Interesting! I'd have to check, but I might qualify on my maternal side.

olson@sfba.social

@rival_elf

My mother was a Canadian. I applied and I should get my citizenship papers around September of this year.
I never knew I could be a citizen. But I am pretty sure one could be three generations and get papers. Unfortunately, one cannot get papers if the applicant is adopted.

ojarjur@mastodon.online

@rival_elf I believe there’s one more caveat; your ancestor has to have already been a Canadian citizen at the time their child (who you descend from) was born.

For example, if your grandparent moved to Canada and became a citizen after your parent was born, then your parent would not become a citizen and it won’t pass down through you.

fractal@amble.quest

@rival_elf@infosec.exchange one of my friends learned they were canadian because of this post, thank you!

zaivala@hostux.social

@rival_elf
In my case, I am 5th 6th and 7th generation Canadian, however, Canada was not a nation five generations before me (I'm 73 now). Hard to prove citizenship of a nation that wasn't a nation...

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Big news: Canada changed their citizenship rules and now if you've ever had a direct ancestor who was a citizen, you are now automatically a citizen too!