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IRCC Proof of Canadian Citizenship Wait Reaches 34 Months

IRCC’s latest update shows proof of Canadian citizenship applications now taking about 34 months to process. While that is another increase, the rise was much smaller ...

5 Tools to Find Canadian Citizenship by Descent Records

Tracing a Canadian ancestor can be the hardest part of a citizenship by descent case. Many families begin with large genealogy websites, then get stuck when ...

IRCC Proof of Canadian Citizenship Wait Hits 33 Months

Proof of Canadian citizenship can take much longer than many applicants expect. The overall timeline usually includes collecting family records, preparing the application, and then waiting ...

Canada Adds Six Cities to Low-Wage LMIA Freeze

Canada has widened its low-wage LMIA freeze in several labour markets, adding Halifax, Fredericton, Kingston, St. Catharines-Niagara, Regina, and Lethbridge while removing Kamloops and Chilliwack. The ...

Canada Expands Citizenship by Descent Eligibility

Canada’s citizenship rules now allow many people born outside Canada to claim citizenship through a direct family line, even several generations back. A new ancestry-checking tool ...

Canada Expands Citizenship by Descent Rules for Americans

A change to Canada’s citizenship law is prompting many Americans with Canadian family roots to take a second look at their ancestry. In places such as ...

IRCC to Launch New Asylum Claim System on November 3

Canada will move to a new online asylum claim system on November 3, 2026. IRCC says the change will affect claimants differently depending on whether their ...

IRCC Clarifies Canadian Citizenship by Descent Claims

New guidance and training examples linked to Canada’s citizenship law changes suggest that some people born outside Canada may already be Canadian citizens by descent, even ...

Eric Clapton Claim Shows Canadian Citizenship by Descent

Canada’s citizenship-by-descent rules continue to affect families in unexpected ways. A recent example involving Eric Clapton shows how a Canadian-born parent, even in a complicated family ...

Canada Visitor Visa Processing Time by Country

Canada visitor visa processing times can vary a lot by country, season, and application quality. In this guide, you will learn what affects processing, how to ...

Bill C-3 Restores Canadian Citizenship Lost at 28

Thousands of people born outside Canada between February 15, 1977, and April 16, 1981 may have unknowingly lost Canadian citizenship at age 28 under an old ...

IRCC Adds Fairness Step for Employer-Specific Work Permits

IRCC has updated its guidance for employer-specific work permits and now says officers should not refuse an application right away just because they doubt a job ...

Canada Extends Ebola Immigration Restrictions to 2026

Canada has extended temporary Ebola-related border and immigration restrictions affecting certain foreign nationals connected to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, and South Sudan. The ...

Ancestry Adds Quebec Obituaries for Citizenship by Descent

Ancestry has added more than 570,000 Quebec obituary records to its platform, giving many people with French-Canadian roots a new way to trace family lines. For ...

Pre-1867 Births May Support Canadian Citizenship by Descent

This article explains an important point about Canadian citizenship by descent: 1867 is not a legal cut-off year. If your ancestor was born on land that ...

Home Children Descendants May Have Canadian Citizenship

Canada’s citizenship rules may now help some descendants of Britain’s “Home Children” discover they are already Canadian citizens by descent. More than 100,000 children were sent ...

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