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Zelenskyy describes Canada-U.S. tensions as 'strange,' draws comparison to Ukraine and Russia (www.cbc.ca)
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[–] 2 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Canada has citizenship by descent from a Canadian citizen and the rules were recently loosened so tons of Americans are applying to prove their descent from a Canadian citizen: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/canadian-citizenship/act-changes/rules-2025.html

Last I checked, the processing time for all those applications was 33 months because so many people were applying.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (4 children)

    I actually have one. It was a couple of generations back though.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    According to this it seems that it's transitive so it goes back all the way to the 1600's as long as they were a Canadian citizen or (before either 1947 or 1949, depending on province) a British subject living in Canada.

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

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I will have to tell any family I have that might want to emigrate at some point thanks for the information I can't believe I didn't know that.

    I am going down with the ship.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    may not help, but check this out, it's some of our programs etc. for people looking to come to Canada. https://ircc.canada.ca/explore-programs/index.asp

    If you do find something that works, just keep in mind that our gov't, like most, can be terribly slow in processing things. Good luck!

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