{"id":10788,"date":"2026-10-05T09:12:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T16:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/2026\/10\/05\/did-your-canadian-born-ancestor-become-american-the-governments-own-training-example-says-you-may-have-a-claim-to-canadian-citizenship-by-descent\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T09:12:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T16:12:53","slug":"did-your-canadian-born-ancestor-become-american-the-governments-own-training-example-says-you-may-have-a-claim-to-canadian-citizenship-by-descent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/2026\/10\/05\/did-your-canadian-born-ancestor-become-american-the-governments-own-training-example-says-you-may-have-a-claim-to-canadian-citizenship-by-descent\/","title":{"rendered":"Did your Canadian-born ancestor become American? The government\u2019s own training example says you may have a claim to Canadian citizenship by descent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bIf your grandparent was born in Canada and later became an American, you may be a Canadian citizen by descent. You may have been one since the day you were born. Canada\u2019s immigration department used a family like yours to train its own officers on these cases. In December 2025, according to internal IRCC training<br \/>\nThe post Did your Canadian-born ancestor become American? The government\u2019s own training example says you may have a claim to Canadian citizenship by descent first appeared on CIC News.<\/p>\n<p>If your grandparent was born in Canada and later became an American, you may be a Canadian citizen by descent. You may have been one since the day you were born. Canada\u2019s immigration department used a family like yours to train its own officers on these cases. In December 2025, according to internal IRCC training [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicnews.com\/2026\/10\/born-in-the-u-s-to-a-parent-whose-own-parent-was-canadian-irccs-clifford-example-shows-how-you-may-be-canadian-1081021.html\">Did your Canadian-born ancestor become American? The government\u2019s own training example says you may have a claim to 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\/10\/born-in-the-u-s-to-a-parent-whose-own-parent-was-canadian-irccs-clifford-example-shows-how-you-may-be-canadian-1081021.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bIf your grandparent was born in Canada and later became an American, you may be a Canadian citizen by descent. You may have been one since the day you were born. Canada\u2019s immigration department used a family like yours to train its own officers on these cases. In December 2025, according to internal IRCC training [&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-10788","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\/10788","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=10788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}