Citizenship Changes Affect Foreign Service

Public Servants with children who were born abroad have expressed alarm about recent changes to immigration regulations that limit the ability to pass on Canadian citizenship to only those citizens who were themselves born in Canada. This means that while foreign service kids born abroad are Canadians, any of their kids who are born outside Canada will not be.

Gaétan Bruneau, who is affected, says that help is on the way. If Bill C-37 goes through, parents of kids born abroad will not need to worry about the citizenship of grandkids born outside Canada.

Read about it here.

The salient section reads:

- Ensure that the law supports the implementation of the first generation limit to passing on citizenship, ensure that the law does not unintentionally bar applicants who are eligible for citizenship, and ensure that the children of people serving Canada abroad – children of Crown servants – are not disadvantaged by their parent’s service to Canada and are able to pass on citizenship to their children.