OrangeMango

And after she became 28 passport canada issued her with a new passport? Thus she thought everything was ok? - I take it.

Then immigration and citizenship sent her the letter telling her that she was no longer a citizen.

And since she was never PR in Canada, she couldn't go back from citizenship status to PR status?

BritInParis

The initial citizenship card was issued correctly. The later citizenship certificate and passport appear to have been issued incorrectly. I'm not an expert on Canadian immigration law but I suspect that she technically has no legal immigration status in Canada at the moment. Just a Paraguayan citizen without a passport.

Pulaski

I am still wondering why she can't/hasn't regularized her status through her husband (assuming he is a Canadian citizen)?

BritInParis

She probably can but if she can wrangle citizenship out of the situation rather than going through spousal immigration then that would be preferable.

OrangeMango

But if this is the case the relevant immigration and citizenship officer should bear the brunt of this problem, definitely not the lady in question.

What else should this unassuming lady have suspected? She was issued Canadian passports and Canadian citizenship cards more than once. She was certainly not on any kind of visa.

If I was a lawyer, hired by this lady, I would take on immigration and citizenship, rather than anybody else.

BritInParis

The flipside of that is that she has been able to enjoy the rights of being a Canadian citizen for the last ten years even though she wasn't one; an administrative error doesn't give her the right to citizenship. However I suspect that the minister will exceptionally grant her citizenship in the end as that is what has happened with similar cases.