Maya Muses: A new Canadian law, the April 17 amendment to Canada’s Citizenship Act, was passed and now there are several hundred thousand people around the world who may have gone to bed Thursday night as a citizen of some other country only to have awoken as a Canadian citizen and not even know it! The Canadian government estimates that most of the people concerned are probably American citizens who had to renounce their citizenship once they became Americans. This law automatically restores their nationality to them and also to their children.
For more information visit the Citizenship and Immigration website.
4 responses so far ↓
1 meredith aka skylar // Apr 19, 2009 at 12:51 am
Wow I didn`t know about that!
2 Lynn // Apr 19, 2009 at 5:30 am
Meredith, you being Canadian, I thought most people in Canada did know about it!
3 meredith aka skylar // Apr 19, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Not!!! Ì`m ususally up to date on this… but it wasn`t mention anywhere… and I work for the gouv. of canada… I`ll check again tomorrow at work!
4 Lynn // Apr 20, 2009 at 2:45 pm
That’s right, I forgot you work for the government!
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