Ottawa won't appeal court ruling striking down limit on passing citizenship to children born abroad (split)

[ShawnK 76]

27 minutes ago, mam521 said:

@Cadtoverm 

My wife is an American, currently living in Canada with me in Montreal. We bought our house in Vermont when we got married and started the immigration process. At the time we thought it would be an 8 month process….

 

We are having a baby in 3 weeks, and was hoping to be able to move full time to be close to her family and live in our house. The uncertainty of this situation is really impacting my mental health.

 

 Thanks everyone for sharing your stories and information….. it makes a bit easier to go through the experience. 

 

Well, not that you want to hear this, but if the baby is born in Canada, it will be able to pass on Canadian citizenship to it's children, should they choose to have kids.  You guys won't be saddled with a big hospital bill right as you were hoping to move and your wife will be able to deliver with her doctors that have overseen the entire pregnancy.  

 

I know, you'd much rather be "home".  100% get it.  But hopefully it's not all bad...a new baby is pretty exciting.  

Recently this was rejected by the courts in Canada, so now ,a Canadian child born abroad can pass on Canadian citizenship.

 

 

[mam521 1,811]

21 minutes ago, ShawnK said:

Recently this was rejected by the courts in Canada, so now ,a Canadian child born abroad can pass on Canadian citizenship.

 

 

It was ruled unconstitutional in Ontario courts in December, but the Act has yet to be amended and is currently waiting for Parliament to vote, as I understand it.  

[Ontarkie 13,978]

I split these two posts off to their own thread so we don't derail the DS5535 thread. 

 

I had no idea that that was being fought.

 

I'm so happy to see this and hope it is reversed. Please keep us posted so others reading this can be aware.

 

I have 2 US born kids and 4 Canadian born. 

[Ontarkie 13,978]

Found a link, I'm sure there is more links too.

 

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/2024/01/canada-will-not-appeal-decision-that-strikes-down-first-generation-limit-to-canadian-citizenship-by-descent.html

 

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/ottawa-won-t-appeal-court-ruling-striking-down-limit-on-passing-citizenship-to-children-born-abroad-1.6737704

Edited January 31 by Ontarkie

[mam521 1,811]

I thought they were supposed to be voting on the bill on Jan 29th, but I haven't heard anything updated.  Who knows...

[Ontarkie 13,978]

8 hours ago, mam521 said:

I thought they were supposed to be voting on the bill on Jan 29th, but I haven't heard anything updated.  Who knows...

If it wasn't for you two brining this up at all I wouldn't even know it was possible. Hopefully this thread reaches more of us Canadians in the US.