{"id":10334,"date":"2026-05-15T04:30:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/2026\/05\/15\/prince-edward-island-archives-logs-four-years-worth-of-document-requests-in-four-months-as-americans-rush-for-canadian-passports\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T04:30:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:30:54","slug":"prince-edward-island-archives-logs-four-years-worth-of-document-requests-in-four-months-as-americans-rush-for-canadian-passports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/2026\/05\/15\/prince-edward-island-archives-logs-four-years-worth-of-document-requests-in-four-months-as-americans-rush-for-canadian-passports\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Edward Island Archives logs four years worth of document requests in four months, as Americans rush for Canadian passports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThe Public Archives and Records Office of the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island has seen a drastic surge in document requests from Americans seeking Canadian ancestry records, after Canada changed its citizenship laws in December 2025. Bill C-3, which took effect on December 15, 2025, eliminated Canada\u2019s first-generation limit on citizenship by descent, opening<br \/>\nThe post Prince Edward Island Archives logs four years worth of document requests in four months, as Americans rush for Canadian passports first appeared on CIC News.<\/p>\n<p>The Public Archives and Records Office of the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island has seen a drastic surge in document requests from Americans seeking Canadian ancestry records, after Canada changed its citizenship laws in December 2025. Bill C-3, which took effect on December 15, 2025, eliminated Canada\u2019s first-generation limit on citizenship by descent, opening [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicnews.com\/2026\/05\/prince-edward-island-archives-logs-four-years-worth-of-document-requests-in-four-months-as-americans-rush-for-canadian-passports-0575414.html\">Prince Edward Island Archives logs four years worth of document requests in four months, as Americans rush 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\/prince-edward-island-archives-logs-four-years-worth-of-document-requests-in-four-months-as-americans-rush-for-canadian-passports-0575414.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThe Public Archives and Records Office of the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island has seen a drastic surge in document requests from Americans seeking Canadian ancestry records, after Canada changed its citizenship laws in December 2025. Bill C-3, which took effect on December 15, 2025, eliminated Canada\u2019s first-generation limit on citizenship by descent, opening [&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-10334","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\/10334","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=10334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}