{"id":10285,"date":"2026-05-01T11:53:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T18:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/2026\/05\/01\/one-in-seven-rhode-islanders-now-eligible-for-canadian-passports\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T11:53:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T18:53:17","slug":"one-in-seven-rhode-islanders-now-eligible-for-canadian-passports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/2026\/05\/01\/one-in-seven-rhode-islanders-now-eligible-for-canadian-passports\/","title":{"rendered":"One in seven Rhode Islanders now eligible for Canadian passports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bAround one in seven Rhode Islanders qualifies for U.S.-Canadian dual citizenship, following a recent change to Canadian law. The law, Bill C-3, eliminated the first-generation limit to inheriting Canadian citizenship, putting Rhode Island, with its French-Canadian\/Franco-American heritage, among the shortlist of the most eligible regions in the United States. Today, any American born before December<br \/>\nThe post One in seven Rhode Islanders now eligible for Canadian passports first appeared on CIC News.<\/p>\n<p>Around one in seven Rhode Islanders qualifies for U.S.-Canadian dual citizenship, following a recent change to Canadian law. The law, Bill C-3, eliminated the first-generation limit to inheriting Canadian citizenship, putting Rhode Island, with its French-Canadian\/Franco-American heritage, among the shortlist of the most eligible regions in the United States. Today, any American born before December [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicnews.com\/2026\/05\/one-in-seven-rhode-islanders-now-eligible-for-canadian-passports-0574827.html\">One in seven Rhode Islanders now eligible for Canadian passports<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicnews.com\/\">CIC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicnews.com\/2026\/05\/one-in-seven-rhode-islanders-now-eligible-for-canadian-passports-0574827.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bAround one in seven Rhode Islanders qualifies for U.S.-Canadian dual citizenship, following a recent change to Canadian law. The law, Bill C-3, eliminated the first-generation limit to inheriting Canadian citizenship, putting Rhode Island, with its French-Canadian\/Franco-American heritage, among the shortlist of the most eligible regions in the United States. Today, any American born before December [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cic-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}