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Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has removed requirements to disclose the marriage details of an applicant’s grandparents from CIT-0001, the application form for proof of Canadian citizenship. Get a Free Consultation on Applying for Proof of Canadian Citizenship IRCC added a dedicated field for these marriage details on August 25, in the same update

On the morning of March 1, 1922, a chartered train pulled out of Plum Coulee, Manitoba. Its cars held families, furniture, horses and plows. Six days and 3,000 kilometres later, it stopped at San Antonio de los Arenales, a rail siding in Chihuahua's high desert. About 400 people stepped off in those first arrivals. They

You learned you're a Canadian citizen by descent. Someone in your family has already asked the question: Do you owe taxes to Canada now? In most cases, no. Millions of Americans became eligible when Canada's new citizenship law removed the generational limit in December 2025. Most of them will not need to file any Canadian

A death certificate from Michigan can name your great-grandmother's birthplace as Ontario. On its own, it won't establish that she held Canadian citizenship. American records do real work in a citizenship by descent application. Among other functions, they can establish your identity and can document the parent-child link in each generation. They are valid additions

As of September, new applicants for a proof of Canadian citizenship certificate will have to wait 33 months for a decision. The federal tool that tracks processing times was updated on September 3, showing that the wait time for this application type has increased by eight months when compared to the previous month. In August,

Since Canada expanded citizenship by descent, hundreds of thousands of people have started looking into whether they're already Canadian. A market of paid help has grown alongside them, and some of it makes promises no one can deliver. Get a Free Consultation on Applying for Proof of Canadian Citizenship This article covers: What an immigration

Say your mother's mother was born in Quebec. Say your father's father's father was born in Ontario. Both were Canadian. Either one could anchor your claim. Almost everyone picks the grandmother. The logic looks sound—fewer names, fewer records, fewer places for the paperwork to break. You want the short version of a long project. Three

As of September 3, a new application for proof of Canadian citizenship takes 33 months to process. That's an eight-month jump from the August estimate. With more than 136,000 people in the queue, new Canadians by descent face close to three years before they can prove their status and access the rights that come with

In late July, the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research surveyed 1,165 American adults. Of those, 72% said America is heading in the wrong direction. The same poll found 48% have hardly any confidence in the people running the executive branch. For Congress, that figure was 53%. Only a third of adults approve of

In Clinton County, New York, 6,988 residents told the U.S. Census Bureau they have Canadian or French Canadian ancestry. The county holds 78,493 people, working out to one in every 11. Franklin County runs close behind at one in 14, and St. Lawrence County sits at one in 17. Clinton, Franklin and St. Lawrence rank