Canadian Citizenship

The Canadian government may end its longstanding policy of providing citizenship to Canadian-born babies of non-citizens or residents of the country. According to media reports, Canadian immigration officials are recommending that the Conservative government consider ending the practice of offering citizenship to babies born to non-citizens or residents, even though the number of children affected

Despite vocal opposition and legal challenges to its recent immigration reform, the Canadian government is crediting that new law for a steep decrease in the backlog of citizenship applications. The government says its “Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act”, or Bill C-24, is directly responsible for the drop in wait time for citizenship applications. The government also

Despite widespread opposition, threats of lawsuits and questions regarding the law’s constitutionality, Canada’s federal government has passed its sweeping new citizenship law. Bill C-24, titled the Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act, has been steeped in controversy since it was first introduced in parliament several months ago. While the Conservative government claims that the bill clarifies and

Canada welcomed 35,000 new citizens in the first two months of 2014 —twice as many as in the same period last year. According to Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC), more than 19,200 new Canadian citizens were sworn in this February, almost double the amount of new citizens welcomed one year earlier. In January, over 16,000

Service in Canada’s armed forces could mean a fast track to citizenship for Permanent Residents thanks to Canada’s new immigration law. In its recently introduced Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act, the Canadian government announced that in order to “recognize the important contributions of those who have served Canada in uniform” it was planning to introduce a

  Immigrants to Canada will have to spend more time in the country, and learn to speak one of the two official languages before they can obtain citizenship as part of a proposed sweeping reform of the country’s immigration laws. Stating that Canadian “citizenship is a privilege not a right”, Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris

More than 16,000 new Canadians were sworn in last month, a dramatic jump from the 8,250 new citizens of January 2013. Last month, new citizens from 190 different countries were sworn in at 244 citizenship ceremonies held across Canada. According to Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC), the investments made by the Canadian government in its

As part of the recently announced Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act, the Canadian government has made significant changes on its citizenship application form (CIT-0002E) that increase the burden of proof for potential applicants. The move is part of an overall effort by the Canadian government to crackdown on the amount of fraudulent immigration applications. Citizenship and