{"id":10295,"date":"2026-05-05T13:42:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/2026\/05\/05\/archives-overwhelmed-after-canada-opens-up-citizenship-to-millions-of-americans\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T13:42:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:42:24","slug":"archives-overwhelmed-after-canada-opens-up-citizenship-to-millions-of-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/2026\/05\/05\/archives-overwhelmed-after-canada-opens-up-citizenship-to-millions-of-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Archives overwhelmed after Canada opens up citizenship to millions of Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bArchives across Canada are reporting a dramatic surge in requests, after a change in legislation granted citizenship to any American who can trace their lineage back to a Canadian ancestor. The change eliminated Canada\u2019s first-generation limit to citizenship by descent, giving anyone born prior to December 15, 2025 with a Canadian ancestor the right to<br \/>\nThe post Archives overwhelmed after Canada opens up citizenship to millions of Americans first appeared on CIC News.<\/p>\n<p>Archives across Canada are reporting a dramatic surge in requests, after a change in legislation granted citizenship to any American who can trace their lineage back to a Canadian ancestor. The change eliminated Canada\u2019s first-generation limit to citizenship by descent, giving anyone born prior to December 15, 2025 with a Canadian ancestor the right to [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicnews.com\/2026\/05\/archives-overwhelmed-after-canada-opens-up-citizenship-to-millions-of-americans-0575017.html\">Archives overwhelmed after Canada opens up citizenship to millions of Americans<\/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\/archives-overwhelmed-after-canada-opens-up-citizenship-to-millions-of-americans-0575017.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bArchives across Canada are reporting a dramatic surge in requests, after a change in legislation granted citizenship to any American who can trace their lineage back to a Canadian ancestor. The change eliminated Canada\u2019s first-generation limit to citizenship by descent, giving anyone born prior to December 15, 2025 with a Canadian ancestor the right to [&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-10295","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\/10295","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=10295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}