{"id":10542,"date":"2026-07-29T04:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T11:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/2026\/07\/29\/a-canadian-grandparent-isnt-enough-for-a-successful-citizenship-by-descent-application-you-need-the-chain-linking-you-both\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T04:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T11:30:10","slug":"a-canadian-grandparent-isnt-enough-for-a-successful-citizenship-by-descent-application-you-need-the-chain-linking-you-both","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/2026\/07\/29\/a-canadian-grandparent-isnt-enough-for-a-successful-citizenship-by-descent-application-you-need-the-chain-linking-you-both\/","title":{"rendered":"A Canadian grandparent isn\u2019t enough for a successful citizenship by descent application. You need the chain linking you both"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u200bSince the passing of Bill C-3 on December 15, 2025, the first-generation limit on Canadian citizenship by descent has been removed for those born before that date. This means that any individual with a Canadian ancestor may already be Canadian. But before you celebrate, or start mailing off your paperwork, there\u2019s a catch worth understanding.
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Since the passing of Bill C-3 on December 15, 2025, the first-generation limit on Canadian citizenship by descent has been removed for those born before that date. This means that any individual with a Canadian ancestor may already be Canadian. But before you celebrate, or start mailing off your paperwork, there\u2019s a catch worth understanding. [\u2026]<\/p>\n

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\u200bSince the passing of Bill C-3 on December 15, 2025, the first-generation limit on Canadian citizenship by descent has been removed for those born before that date. This means that any individual with a Canadian ancestor may already be Canadian. But before you celebrate, or start mailing off your paperwork, there\u2019s a catch worth understanding. […]<\/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-10542","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\/10542","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=10542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}