Blog

A relative who shares ancestral Canadian roots and successfully obtains confirmation of citizenship can significantly advance legal claims for other extended family members. When one family member secures a citizenship certificate, substantial portions of their underlying genealogical research, archival evidence,...

Finding out that a person may be a Canadian citizen by descent is only the first step. The next step is proving the citizenship claim. Applicants may need to collect birth, marriage and death records, complete the required forms, provide...

As of September 3, a new application for proof of Canadian citizenship is expected to take 33 months to process. This is an eight-month increase from the estimate given in August. More than 136,000 applications are currently in the queue,...