Conservative Shadow Minister of Immigration Michelle Rempel Garner has raised concerns about changes to Canadian citizenship laws under Bill C-3. She stated that non-citizens convicted of serious crimes in countries like the United States can now apply for Canadian citizenship by descent. Conservatives proposed an amendment to block individuals with serious criminal records from automatic citizenship, but the government removed the clause. Rempel Garner warned that the expand

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) is sending surrender letters to some people who received Canadian citizenship by descent under Bill C-3. The letters ask these individuals to return their citizenship certificates. The government is questioning the third-party genealogy records used in their applications. Many affected people live in the United States. They relied on these certificates to make major life decisions. Some people even gave up their American cit

A group of American applicants are reporting significant delays and a lack of transparency regarding their Canadian citizenship-by-descent applications. Despite applying as soon as interim measures were introduced in March 2025, many early applicants have found their files stalled in the Immigration Department’s program support unit – a division typically reserved for complex cases. Meanwhile, newer applicants who submitted their files after the formalization of the "lost Can

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has granted Canada's Federal Government an additional two months to finalize amendments to the Citizenship Act, pushing the deadline from November 20, 2025, to January 20, 2026. This extension provides Parliament with crucial time to advance Bill C-3, legislation designed to eliminate the First-Generation Limit that currently blocks Canadians born overseas from transmitting citizenship to their foreign-born children. The court ruled this

On June 5, 2025, Immigration Minister Lena Metlege Diab introduced Bill C-3: An Act to amend the Citizenship Act (2025) to modernize...