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Children born overseas are Canadian citizens by descent if either parent is a citizen otherwise than by descent (meaning by birth in Canada or naturalization). Citizenship by descent is limited to only one generation born outside of the country, [73] other than children or grandchildren of members of the Canadian Armed Forces. [74]
children born outside Canada to Canadian fathers who were not registered as Canadian citizens before 1 January 1949. children born outside Canada to Canadian fathers where the child was born before 1926 (hence aged over 21 on 1 January 1947) and had not been admitted to Canada as a landed immigrant before 1947.
children born outside Canada to a Canadian father (or mother, if born out of wedlock) before 1947; In the latter two cases, a "Canadian" was a British subject who would have been considered a Canadian citizen if the 1947 Act had come into force immediately before the marriage or birth (as the case may be).
An amendment to the Canadian Citizenship Act (S.C. 2008, c. 14, previously Bill C-37) came into effect on April 17, 2009, and changed the rules for the acquisition of foreign-born Canadian citizenship. [72] Individuals born outside Canada can now become Canadian citizens by descent only if at least one of their parents was either a native-born ...
People who became citizens when the first citizenship act took effect on January 1, 1947 (including people born in Canada prior to 1947 and war brides) and who then lost their citizenship; Anyone who was born in Canada or had become a Canadian citizen on or after January 1, 1947, and had then lost citizenship; and
An exception to this was introduced in 2009 to limit citizenship by descent to one generation born outside Canada: those born outside Canada within one generation of a native-born or naturalized citizen parent are Canadian citizens by descent, but their children are no longer granted citizenship by descent. [22] Dominican Republic
A post on X claims that none of President-Elect Donald Trump’s Children would have become U.S. citizens themselves under his plan to eliminate birthright citizenship. Verdict: False Trump was a ...
In Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, by contrast, foreign born are often citizens or in the process of becoming citizens. Certain countries have intermediary rules: in Germany and Japan it is often difficult but not impossible for the foreign born to become citizens.