How RCICs Uphold Integrity in Immigration Practice By Rod Chalmers, RCIC R710685 Rod Chalmers Immigration Consulting Walking the Talk in...

1. The Pre-1947 Naturalization "Fix" (Bill C-24) Before 2015, if an ancestor naturalized in another country (like the US) before 1947, they technically lost their British subject status, which prevented them from "becoming" a Canadian citizen when the Act was created in 1947. This indeed used to break the chain. However, Bill C-24 (2015) retroactively restored citizenship to those "Lost Canadians." It treated them as if they had never lost their status or had it restored as o

Lost Canadians Bill Becomes Law 2025.11.20 Senator Mary Coyle sponsored Bill C-3 in the Senate. Government legislation to extend access to citizenship by descent beyond the first generation has become law after being adopted in the Senate. Bill C-3 responded to a December 2023 Ontario Superior Court ruling that found that limiting citizenship by descent to the first generation born abroad contravened mobility and equality rights in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. “The ter