Canada Citizenship
 

Has the new proposed legislation relating to Canada Citizenship become law yet? If not, will it be passed? The reason I ask is that recently I saw a Question and Answer on some forum as follows:
Q. Under the proposed legislation, would everyone born in Canada be a Canadian citizen?
A. Yes, for all intents and purposes. The only persons born in Canada who would not automatically become Canadian citizens are children of foreign diplomats, in certain circumstances.

My question is: I was born in Canada to parents who were born and married in Canada. We left Canada at my age of two and one-half years. I am now a U.S. citizen. Could I now claim Canadian citizenship? I would like to move to Canada.
Marcel in Mass.

The new bill, bill C-18, is not law yet. It has only jsut had it's first reading and needs another reading and then to go through the senate and stuff and standing comittees. Could be a while yet.

however if you were born in Canada, after i think 1977, then you are already a Canadian Citizen by birth and should surely have a Canadian Birth Certificate?

I think the issue is if you were born before that date because the law was different then and if your parents then naturalised to the USA and became Us citizens they would have lost their Canadian Citizenship.

There may be a method for you to claim if you were never registered as a Canadian Citizen befoer they lost it, but I am no expert.

You need to contact yoru local Canadian Embassy, try Buffalo, and explani the situation and they will tell you and give you forms so you can see.

Drew

Hi Drew, thanks for you response. I was born in 1922. My parents became U.S. citizens sometime between 1930 and 1940. I became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1946. I was hoping that the new law would automatically cover me. I am age 81 and would dearly love to go back. I can't help but think there is something wrong with the Canada law about citizenship when other foreigners can so easily become Canadian citizens and I as a Canadian born cannot. I am also fluent in french.
Marcel