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CIC News Your Polish ancestors may have left your family a Canadian citizenship claim If your family tree runs back to Poland, part of it may run through Canada. And if it does, you might be a Canadian citizen without knowing it. The Polish migration to North America split at the Atlantic; most went south…
CIC News The Supreme Court just narrowed the field for trans athletes in America. Some of those families are already Canadian citizens On June 30, the US Supreme Court upheld state bans on transgender student athletes playing girls’ and women’s sports. The 6-3 decision in West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Little v. Hecox kept laws…
CIC News This Fourth of July, Americans are discovering that they are Canadian too This Fourth of July, millions of Americans will light the grill, pour a drink, and watch the fireworks without knowing they’ve quietly gained far more options for themselves. A door to Canadian citizenship, with all the travel, healthcare, retirement, and social…
CIC News Canada is already returning citizenship certificates it demanded days ago from lost Canadians Some of the new Canadians asked to surrender their citizenship certificates last week have already been told they can keep them, in a quick reversal by Canada’s citizenship department. Less than a week after the federal government asked flagged applicants…
CIC News Nearly one in six Woonsocket residents may already be Canadian In Woonsocket, Rhode Island, the old nickname still holds: la ville la plus française aux États-Unis — the most French city in the United States. A recent change to Canadian law has turned that legacy into something concrete. A conservative estimate suggests nearly…
CIC News Six online tools Americans are using to find the ancestry for Canadian citizenship by descent Since Canada eliminated its generational limit to inheriting citizenship by descent last December, millions of Americans with Canadian ancestry can apply for proof of Canadian citizenship, with which they can obtain a Canadian passport. And this spring, thousands…
CIC News “We didn’t see this coming”: New Brunswick Archives encourages patience as Americans rush to secure documents needed for Canadian passport The Canadian province of New Brunswick has seen genealogy-related requests quadruple after Canada passed a bill that made millions of Americans eligible for Canadian citizenship. Bill C-3, which took effect on December 15,…
CIC News Mark Wahlberg, Ellen DeGeneres, and Chloë Sevigny can now get Canadian passports, along with millions of everyday Americans The U.S. is home to many famous Americans who, in late December 2025, became U.S.-Canadian dual citizens when Canada updated its citizenship law. The new law, which removed the first-generation limit to inheriting Canadian citizenship…
CIC News Could Canada’s new citizenship law help U.S. draft dodgers? With the U.S. set to resume mandatory draft registration this year, Canada’s new citizenship law offers would-be dodgers the unconditional right to enter Canada. In the wake of changes to Canada’s Citizenship Act in December of 2025, which removed the generational limit to inheriting…
CIC News April processing update: FSWP speeds up for the first time in over a year Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) released updated processing times for economic immigration and citizenship applications on April 7, 2026. The Federal Skilled Worker Program (FSWP) dropped to six months from seven — its first improvement since early 2025.…