{"id":10464,"date":"2026-07-02T04:35:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T11:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/2026\/07\/02\/how-canadas-citizenship-by-descent-law-helped-one-footballer-make-canadas-fifa-world-cup-squad\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T04:35:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T11:35:39","slug":"how-canadas-citizenship-by-descent-law-helped-one-footballer-make-canadas-fifa-world-cup-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/2026\/07\/02\/how-canadas-citizenship-by-descent-law-helped-one-footballer-make-canadas-fifa-world-cup-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"How Canada\u2019s citizenship by descent law helped one footballer make Canada\u2019s FIFA World Cup squad"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u200bEngland-born football player Alfie Jones became a Canadian citizen last year, and earned a place on Canada\u2019s national soccer team \u2013 all because of a grandmother born in Hillcrest, Alberta. For around 16 years, having a Canadian grandparent wasn\u2019t enough to pass citizenship down the family line. But Canada\u2019s changed its citizenship by descent laws
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England-born football player Alfie Jones became a Canadian citizen last year, and earned a place on Canada\u2019s national soccer team \u2013 all because of a grandmother born in Hillcrest, Alberta. For around 16 years, having a Canadian grandparent wasn\u2019t enough to pass citizenship down the family line. But Canada\u2019s changed its citizenship by descent laws [\u2026]<\/p>\n

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\u200bEngland-born football player Alfie Jones became a Canadian citizen last year, and earned a place on Canada\u2019s national soccer team \u2013 all because of a grandmother born in Hillcrest, Alberta. For around 16 years, having a Canadian grandparent wasn\u2019t enough to pass citizenship down the family line. But Canada\u2019s changed its citizenship by descent laws […]<\/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-10464","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\/10464","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=10464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}