penguinsix

The issue of expat children and their children is getting more and more publicity as a number of them are discovering they are essentially "stateless"--no passport and no hopes of a passport. This was a rather famous case involving a Canadian expat who ran into the same problems of being a second generation expat.

http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life...126-189xc.html

JAJ

Can usually be fixed if people actually know the rules and what questions to ask. In the case of the child born in Belgium, no-one has spotted that the (Canadian) father born in Bermuda 43 years ago is also a British citizen (birth in a British territory), and hence the child is British by descent. So not stateless.

Child can be sponsored into Canada as a PR and immediately granted citizenship (3 year waiting period does not apply to children).