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| Subject: Re: Canadian Citizenship Update
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Posted on: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:05:52 MST
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I sure hope they pass this one - they have had proposed laws introduced
every year for over a decade but none got thorugh the process.
--
Jim Humphries,
Former Visa Officer
"verivin" wrote in message
news:b7abd16e-2c87-47bd-b605-84a613b9b806@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
> The Canadian government has introduced legislation (supported by all
> parties) that will return citizenship to nearly every class of
> individuals whose citizenship was lost under previous citizenship
> acts. It will even give citizenship to some people who did not
> previously have it.
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> The only groups left out are people who formally renounced their
> citizenship to Canadian authorities (e.g. Conrad Black) and those who
> obtained citizenship by fraud. Note that taking a foreign (e.g. U.S.)
> citizenship is NOT considered to be a formal renunciation...those
> people WILL get their Canadian citizenship back.
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> Here is the proposed law (C-37):
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> http://www2.parl.gc.ca/content/hoc/Bills/392/Government/C-37/C-37_1/C-37_1.PDF
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> Here is some background information and examples:
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> http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/media/backgrounders/2007/2007-12-10.asp
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> http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/media/backgrounders/2007/2007-12-10b.asp
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