That includes great, great grandparents.
In order to obtain proof of Canadian citizenship, you would need to document your line of descent through historical documents and birth records.
Neat. My grandfather moved to America from New Brunswick.
What if my ex was 1/4 Canadian? Do I have to re-marry her?
Holy shit, I might be a Canadian citizen!
My genealogy might finally pay off! I have a lot of French Canadians back in my family tree. Now to track down the documents to prove it
For Quebec you can find a lot of birth records here
Looks like my 2nd great grandfather was born in Hawkesbury, Ontario in 1881! I think that means I qualify!
Thank you!
So it’s blood only? My mum was Canadian, but I’m adopted.
If you were born or adopted before December 15, 2025
Citizenship may have been restored or given to people who were born outside Canada in the second generation or later before December 15, 2025.
This means that in most cases you’re automatically a Canadian citizen if you were born
- before December 15, 2025
- outside Canada to a Canadian parent
This rule also applies to you if you were born to someone who became Canadian because of these rule changes.
If this change made you a Canadian automatically, but you don’t want to be one, you can apply to give up (renounce) your Canadian citizenship.
Adopted people are likely eligible to apply for Canadian citizenship through a direct grant for adopted people if they were born and adopted outside Canada in the second generation or later before December 15, 2025.
I’m not a lawyer, but I think it is worth investigating further from your end.
This means that in most cases you’re automatically a Canadian citizen if you were born
- before December 15, 2025
- outside Canada to a Canadian parent
This rule also applies to you if you were born to someone who became Canadian because of these rule changes.
I wonder if I, too, could be a citizen by recursion.
That can’t be right. That’s infinitely recursive…
Am I the only one that read this as an incest joke?
If it’s a joke, I don’t understand my own joke :P
Canada has only existed since 1867, so not exactly.
So, if I understand this correctly, if I can prove that one of my ancestors was a Canadian citizen, then all their descendants have automatically been made Canadian citizens, including me?
I was hopeful for a moment then realized that my Canadian ancestors would have been British.
Guess we’re going to be Canada
Not me! My great great great great grandmother died in Quebec, but that’s about my only connection to Canada :P
This is real! I’m one of these people and my family is working on assembling the documentation!
Hell yeah get up here bud!
Holy shit congrats buddy.
Some of my ancestors came from Nova Scotia but there’s no way I could prove it.
Do you obsessively say sorry to people? If yes, you might be a Canadian.
My stepdad was born in Canada, but he did not adopt me. Bummer.
That includes great, great grandparents.
Two of my great, great grandparents (my grandfather’s grandparents) were born in Canada. Reading through the law, I’m having trouble identifying exactly where this makes me eligible. Can I ask for a bit of help pointed in the right direction?
I have my birth certificate linking me to my father, his birth certificate linking him to my grandfather. Then US census records linking my grandfather to my great grandmother, and US census records linking her to her (Canadian born) parents. I guess I need to find proof of their Canadian births…
Go read the FAQ on this… you are probably reading some old info. The law changed due to the old law being ruled unconstitutional. You are most likely eligible based on what you’ve stated.
What I would do is pay a lawyer in Canada to get their birth certificates.
I like poutine. Will that work?
Depends if you use real cheese curds or shredded cheese.
Do people use shredded cheese?! What the fuck?
The curds at the grocer here are 12USD for an 8oz pack and they don’t squeak. I don’t blame them, but I wouldn’t call it poutine.
They don’t squeak because they have been refrigerated. Heathens!!!
Shredded cheese on poutine is an automatic life sentence without parole.
There weren’t no cheese curd purveyors in rural Alberty when I was growin’ up 😞. Sometimes ya gotta make due.
It should be the single question on our citizenship test. “Do you put shredded cheese on poutine?” If yes, you get shot on the spot. Sorry, this is Canada, you get hung.
Shredded cheese?
shredded cheese
May your gravy forever be too cold to melt the cheese.
fuckin’ just tell me im living in Interesting Times why doncha
My brother lives an hour from the border, is that close enough?!?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aroostook_War
If your family has been living in part of that yellow area for a long time, maybe.
Unfortunately no, my bro is a “flatlander” who moved to Vermont 25 years ago or so. I was just kidding. Well, minus the sentiment, I just know I have no shot.
I strongly believe that the yellow should have all been Canadian. It’s dumb having to drive over Maine when heading to the east coast if you don’t want to go through the US
I didn’t qualify as a kid (which is interesting because one of the things I was considering was moving to Montreal for university which would probably have lead to a very different life than I have now), but the law changes allowed me to later claim citizenship (under the 2009 change, IIRC). There is (or at least was when I did) a fair amount of documentation to write and provide about all your relatives so be ready for that.
I am a 4th generation Canadian. I guess I am safe.
Do you have a source to read more?
Probably the most info is in the Canadian citizenship subreddit FAQ
