{"id":10502,"date":"2026-07-16T09:19:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/2026\/07\/16\/why-older-americans-are-among-the-most-active-claimants-of-canadian-citizenship-by-descent\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T09:19:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:19:54","slug":"why-older-americans-are-among-the-most-active-claimants-of-canadian-citizenship-by-descent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/2026\/07\/16\/why-older-americans-are-among-the-most-active-claimants-of-canadian-citizenship-by-descent\/","title":{"rendered":"Why older Americans are among the most active claimants of Canadian citizenship by descent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bSince Bill C-3 took effect on December 15, 2025, older Americans have emerged as a significant share of those claiming Canadian citizenship by descent. For many, the appeal is a second option in retirement. These retirement-aged Americans with family ties to Canada have expressed the value of Canadian citizenship as a \u201cPlan B\u201d, so their<br \/>\nThe post Why older Americans are among the most active claimants of Canadian citizenship by descent first appeared on CIC News.<\/p>\n<p>Since Bill C-3 took effect on December 15, 2025, older Americans have emerged as a significant share of those claiming Canadian citizenship by descent. For many, the appeal is a second option in retirement. These retirement-aged Americans with family ties to Canada have expressed the value of Canadian citizenship as a \u201cPlan B\u201d, so their [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicnews.com\/2026\/07\/why-older-americans-are-among-the-most-active-claimants-of-canadian-citizenship-by-descent-0778074.html\">Why older Americans are among the most active claimants of Canadian citizenship by descent<\/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\/07\/why-older-americans-are-among-the-most-active-claimants-of-canadian-citizenship-by-descent-0778074.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bSince Bill C-3 took effect on December 15, 2025, older Americans have emerged as a significant share of those claiming Canadian citizenship by descent. For many, the appeal is a second option in retirement. These retirement-aged Americans with family ties to Canada have expressed the value of Canadian citizenship as a \u201cPlan B\u201d, so their [&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-10502","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\/10502","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=10502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}