# Marriage and Citizenship (Canadian Version)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-citizenship-canadian-version/56437>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 1, 2001, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-citizenship-canadian-version/56437 "2001-03-01T23:08:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Doubleclick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Doubleclick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doubleclick)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2001, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-citizenship-canadian-version/56437/1 "2001-03-01T23:08:19Z")

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Would I (A landed British imigrant) be considered a Canadian citizen now because my wife is Canadian?

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**Author:** ![wooba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/aeb1de/32.png) [@wooba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wooba)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2001, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-citizenship-canadian-version/56437/2 "2001-03-01T23:55:23Z")

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I’m pretty sure that marriage does not grant automatic citizenship in Canada… although I am not expert, so I wouldn’t take my word for it.

Once you’ve lived here for a certain length of time (3 years in my case) you can apply for citizenship… the test they give you is a piece a piss if you take a couple of hours to read over the material… and you can keep your British passport as well… which makes travelling so much more convenient.

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**Author:** ![Fyodor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/958977/32.png) [@Fyodor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fyodor)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2001, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marriage-and-citizenship-canadian-version/56437/3 "2001-03-02T00:50:04Z")

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Since you are already a landed immigrant nothing changes because you married a Canadian. I married a foreigner and sponsored her to become a Canadian landed immigrant. She had to undergo a medical and a police check in her homeland before she got her landed immigrant papers but she still has to live a full three years here and do the necessary things to become a citizen.