# Leaving USA for someplace saner- easier said than done? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 6, 2024, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leaving-usa-for-someplace-saner-easier-said-than-done/1009810 "2024-11-06T20:05:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 195
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2025, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leaving-usa-for-someplace-saner-easier-said-than-done/1009810/195 "2025-12-31T07:34:06Z")
There’s a thread on Bjorkquist and the amendments over 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/leaving-usa-for-someplace-saner-easier-said-than-done/1009810)._