Looks like Canada will be restoring jus sanguinis, or citizenship by descent after the current laws were ruled unconstitutional. The current rules are based on where the parent or child is born. This has lead to a bunch of children of Canadian citizens being born with no citizenship at all.
I’m glad this is getting resolved because I’ve been in limbo my entire adult life, where Canadian immigration gets upset at me for not entering Canada on a Canadian passport and Canadian Citizenship services keeps asking for more documentation that doesn’t appear possible to produce. It’s complicated because there are three agencies (the third one being the military) which all think it’s the other one’s job to resolve the problem.
My problem was number 9 in this list, my father was a ‘military brat’.
https://lostcanadian.com/twelve-ways-canadians-lost-their-citizenship/
Anyway, there’s lots of stupidity going on with the Canadian government these days, but it’s nice to see the courts are finally fixing some of this. There’s about 200,000 of us who lost citizenship in 2019 and looks like it’ll be restored soon.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/no-appeal-lost-canadians-1.7090649
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-court-citizenship-unconstitutional-1.7067039
Glad to see this is being fixed, and thanks to the amazing folks at Lost Canadians who fought to force the government to do the right thing.
