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CIC News Little Canada in America: How Bill C-3 is restoring Canadian citizenship to descendants of Quebec’s great migration Between 1840 and 1930, nearly one million French Canadians left the province of Quebec for a new life in the U.S. Today, thanks to a sweeping change in Canadian law in December 2025, their descendants in…
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 Proof of Canadian citizenship applicants from abroad face easier completeness check under new rules Canadian citizens by descent applying for proof of Canadian citizenship certificates from abroad now have their applications subject only to a minimal completeness check prior to processing. Under new instructions to officers, proof of citizenship applications from outside Canada…
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 New Hampshire amongst top states for Americans now eligible for Canadian passports If you hail from the Granite State, there is an over-one-in-four chance you now qualify as a dual U.S. – Canadian citizen, and can obtain a Canadian passport. You could be eligible even if your family has lived entirely in the…
CIC News A third of Vermonters can get Canadian passports in wake of citizenship law changes Around one in three Vermonters now qualifies for Canadian citizenship, following a recent change to Canada’s citizenship by descent law. On December 15, 2025, Canada eliminated its first-generation limit to citizenship by descent. Now, anyone born prior to that…
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 You have 64 great-great-great-great-grandparents. If even one was Canadian, you might be too Go back four generations and you have 16 ancestors to check. Go back five and you have 32. Go back six and you have 64. The further back you go, the higher the odds that at least one of them…
CIC News 25% of New Englanders can get Canadian passports, in wake of citizenship law changes One in four New Englanders may qualify for Canadian citizenship, and with it the Canadian passport, under a new law expanding citizenship by descent. The law eliminated the generational limit to inheriting Canadian citizenship for anyone born prior to…