Canada legal geeks: impact of Bjorkquist decision on citizenship by descent for the second generation born outside Canada?

I’ve already tried Drouin, to no avail.

@Eva_Luna was kind enough to PM me with some suggestions, which I’ll follow up on. And with that, I think the “Where’s Waldo the Birth Record” tangent (if not hijack) should fade into a well-deserved oblivion. Thanks for the responses.

I think you meant @OttoDaFe .

Doh! Yes.

It’s official! Just finished my oath ceremony. I think it will feel more once I am holding the citizenship certificate in my hands.

Woot!!!

You’ll really feel it when you can stand on the Canadian side of the border, face the US side, and stick out your tongue with your thumbs in your ears waggling your fingers like moose antlers. While shouting “Neener neener, eh!!”

Then you’ll be a true Canadian. :wink:

If this isn’t already a tradition amongst successful US refugees, it sure oughta become one. :grin:

One of my siblings is traveling with his wife to Taiwan next week to start the paperwork to re-establish/reaffirm her citizenship there (her family moved to the U.S. when she was twelve). Just a preliminary strategic move at this point, but they both enjoyed their extended visit last year with family so a future retirement there some day is not out of the question.

Congrats on the end of your long travail :slight_smile:. Or at least congrats on getting to the end of the hardest part.

Thanks! It’s still feeling a little bit surreal.

So is this what it felt like?

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/video/waking-canadian.html

I don’t have nearly that much swag! (I was gifted some small Canadian flags by a close friend, though, and I wore red and white for my video oath ceremony.)

I want my passport, dagnabbit! I have to get my guarantor to sign a new form. Apparently there’s a completely different application form for people who are applying from outside Canada and using an occupation-based guarantor. I don’t know why they couldn’t just include that as an option on the regular form. Ah well, no government is perfect, I guess.

Legislation has been introduced:

Yep, at first glance it seems like it’s just like the prior bill. Let’s see whether it goes anywhere this time.