# Canadian Citizenship changes **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 13, 2026, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-citizenship-changes/1028419 "2026-03-13T04:46:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 11
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2026, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-citizenship-changes/1028419/11 "2026-03-13T22:38:16Z")
That would be @Eva_Luna . We’ve been having the discussion already, over the last few years. See here: > [@Canada legal geeks: impact of Bjorkquist decision on citizenship by descent for the second generation born outside Canada?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-legal-geeks-impact-of-bjorkquist-decision-on-citizenship-by-descent-for-the-second-generation-born-outside-canada/996610): > > To make a VERY long story short, my grandmother was born in Canada and immigrated to the U.S. as a teenager, and for a long series of reasons, I didn’t manage to file an application for a Certificate of Canadian Citizenship until right after the 2020 election. (I had major issues lining up documentation showing that the person on her birth certificate was the same person who gave birth to my father; my father was largely uncooperative the many, many times I asked him about it, largely because he… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canadian-citizenship-changes/1028419)._