Americans hoping to claim Canadian citizenship look back centuries to find ancestors
A significant number of Americans are researching their ancestry to claim Canadian citizenship following recent legal changes. These changes, which remove the first-generation limit on citizenship, have led to a surge in requests for genealogical records from Canadian archives. Many individuals are tracing their roots back centuries to establish eligibility based on their Canadian ancestors.
- ▪The recent changes to the Canadian Citizenship Act have prompted many Americans to seek citizenship through ancestral ties.
- ▪Requests for genealogical records have surged, overwhelming Canadian archives with inquiries from U.S. citizens.
- ▪Immigration lawyers indicate that there is currently no legal cutoff on the number of generations that can be traced for citizenship claims.
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Open this photo in gallery:Jeffrey Lensman's Quebec-born great-great-grandfather Odilon Marceau and great-great-grandmother Mathilde Goyette with their adult children in a 1910 handout photo. Lensman, from Salt Lake City, Utah, is seeking Canadian citizenship on the basis of Marceau's birth in Quebec in 1838.Jeffrey Lensman/The Canadian PressShareSave for laterPlease log in to bookmark this story.Log InCreate Free AccountCody Sibley was born and raised in Louisiana, but he always felt his family shared strong ties to Canada thanks to his Acadian ancestors from Nova Scotia.Sibley said that as an eighth-generation descendant of Acadians, his family’s roots could be traced back to “generation zero,” Agathe Doucet, who was baptized on Jan.
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