{"id":9935,"date":"2026-01-22T03:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/2026\/01\/22\/new-law-grants-thousands-canadian-citizenship-can-you-apply-in-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T03:00:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T11:00:30","slug":"new-law-grants-thousands-canadian-citizenship-can-you-apply-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/2026\/01\/22\/new-law-grants-thousands-canadian-citizenship-can-you-apply-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"New law grants thousands Canadian citizenship: Can you apply in 2026?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bIf you were born outside Canada and have a Canadian grandparent, you may be able to apply for proof of Canadian citizenship under new rules, even if neither of your parents has a Canadian passport. On December 15, 2025, new legislation came into force that eliminated the first-generation limit (FGL) to citizenship by descent. With<br \/>\nThe post New law grants thousands Canadian citizenship: Can you apply in 2026? first appeared on CIC News.<\/p>\n<p>If you were born outside Canada and have a Canadian grandparent, you may be able to apply for proof of Canadian citizenship under new rules, even if neither of your parents has a Canadian passport. On December 15, 2025, new legislation came into force that eliminated the first-generation limit (FGL) to citizenship by descent. With [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicnews.com\/2026\/01\/new-law-grants-thousands-canadian-citizenship-can-you-apply-in-2026-0169562.html\">New law grants thousands Canadian citizenship: Can you apply in 2026?<\/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\/01\/new-law-grants-thousands-canadian-citizenship-can-you-apply-in-2026-0169562.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bIf you were born outside Canada and have a Canadian grandparent, you may be able to apply for proof of Canadian citizenship under new rules, even if neither of your parents has a Canadian passport. On December 15, 2025, new legislation came into force that eliminated the first-generation limit (FGL) to citizenship by descent. With [&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-9935","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\/9935","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=9935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}