Hell yeah get up here bud!

Holy shit congrats buddy.

I wonder if I, too, could be a citizen by recursion.

That can't be right. That's infinitely recursive...

Anyone want to be my parent? Asking for a friend.

BanQ is an official archival database from the province of Quebec.

https://www.banq.qc.ca/

The subreddit has information in its ‘How to find Documents’ FAQ.

Depends if you use real cheese curds or shredded cheese.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aroostook_War

If your family has been living in part of that yellow area for a long time, maybe.

Can I marry your ex? I want out of here.

If she is there and so are the kids, you probably have some kind of path to citizenship or at least residency, even if it is not immediate. Being the parent / guardian of a citizen is something to start with in most places, at least. But only if they are actually there.

If there are no kids involved and you are no longer married, I would guess that you have nothing to work with.

What I would do is pay a lawyer in Canada to get their birth certificates.

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/canadian-citizenship/act-changes/rules-2025.html

You don’t seem to understand the effect of C-3 coming into force.

If you were born to or adopted by any parent who can trace a line of descent back to a Canadian by birth or naturalization (or a British subject domiciled in Canada pre1947), then you are probably a Canadian citizen as of December 15, 2025.

For persons born or adopted after December 15, 2025, their Canadian parent born or adopted outside Canada will need to demonstrate 1095 days of presence in Canada prior to their birth or adoption.

Hey, it's the person that taught me to make paper!

Hey paper person!

I really wish I could.

Come Nerevar, friend or traitor, come. Come and look upon the Heart and Akulakahn, and bring Wraithguard, I have need of it. Come to the Heart chamber, I wait for you there, where we last met, countless ages ago. Come to me through fire and war, I welcome you! Welcome Moon-and-Star, I have prepared a place for you! Come, bring Wraithguard to the Heart chamber, together, let us free the cursed false gods! Welcome Nerevar, together we shall speak for the law and the land and drive the mongrel dogs of the Empire from Morrowind! Is this how you honor the 6th house and the tribe unmourned? Come to me openly, and not by stealth. Dagoth Ur welcomes you Nerevar, my old friend... but to this place where destiny is made, why have you come unprepared? Welcome, Moon-and-Star, to this place where YOUR destiny is made. What a fool you are, I'm a god! How can you kill a god? What a grand and intoxicating innocence! How could you be so naive? There is no escape, no recall or intervention can work in this place! Come! Lay down your weapons! It is not too late for my mercy...

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/canadian-citizenship/act-changes/rules-2025.html

If you were born or adopted before December 15, 2025

Citizenship may have been restored or given to people who were born outside Canada in the second generation or later before December 15, 2025.

This means that in most cases you’re automatically a Canadian citizen if you were born

• before December 15, 2025
• outside Canada to a Canadian parent

This rule also applies to you if you were born to someone who became Canadian because of these rule changes.

If this change made you a Canadian automatically, but you don’t want to be one, you can apply to give up (renounce) your Canadian citizenship.

Adopted people are likely eligible to apply for Canadian citizenship through a direct grant for adopted people if they were born and adopted outside Canada in the second generation or later before December 15, 2025.

This is a straightforward case as long as you were adopted when your mother had citizenship status and the adoption took place before December 15, 2025.

Whether your mum was born in Canada or a Canadian citizen by descent, you’ll need go through a two-step process with some help from your mum.

Step 1 - Your mother’s citizenship status needs to be confirmed by IRCC. When this is done, an identifier will be created so you can complete step 2.

Step 2 - your adoption is documented so that IRCC can provide a grant of citizenship.

Here is the page with the forms - they haven’t all been updated yet to say that the first generation limit doesn’t apply to your parent.

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/application/application-forms-guides/application-canadian-citizenship-adopted-person.html

You have to apply as you have to prove that you qualify for the Citizenship (you present your family tree with proofs of births and marriages and whatever is needed to reach that "canadian ancestor"), once it is done, you get a "Proof of Citizenship", that is what will then allow you to apply for Passport, Driving License, jobs... It kinda becomes your "birth certificate". Now, to note, I got this in 2014 due to my mother being born Canadian (and me not) and it took me over a year to get my paperwork (close to two) and there is not a "temporary citizen" status, so you have yo wait until you get it to come to Canada (barring visiting of course). With the influx of submissions that this change will create you can expect those times to increase (unless they open a specific channel for it 🤞).

It is automatic, but you have to apply for the certificate of citizenship.

There are related regulations that have just been published in The Canada Gazette that will enable people to have a simplified process for formal renunciation of Canadian citizenship to Canadian authorities if they believe they may be Canadian citizens by descent.

I looked into Greece and the heritages citizenship went away for children born after thr early 80s.

The law is The Citizenship Act with Lost Canadians amendments that came into force on December 15, 2025.

The 2023 Bjorkquist decision on Lost Canadians found the first generation limit on citizenship by descent violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Parliament passed amendments in bill C-3 in early December.

For persons born after December 15, 2025, their new amendments to the Act will require Canadians born outside Canada to meet a 1095 day presence requirement, but the C-3 amendments effectively do away with the first generation limit on citizenship by descent for persons born or adopted before it came into effect.

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/canadian-citizenship/become-canadian-citizen/eligibility/already-citizen.html

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/canadian-citizenship/act-changes/rules-2025.html

It's easier than other places if you are skilled, educated or someone that needs protection through refugee application. Canada immigration

How so?

Here's some details on the bill. The Acadian Expulsion happened about 100 years before Canada became an independent country. So your ancestors would not have been Canadian citizens during the deportation. I am not an immigration lawyer though. There is a contact page on the immigration site, you could just ask them.

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/news/2025/12/bill-c-3-an-act-to-amend-the-citizenship-act-2025-comes-into-effect.html

prove it

Very little has been tested yet, but the general thinking is that there's probably no longer any generation cap, except for babies born since the new change went into effect a couple of weeks ago. The real trick is in proving it. From what I have read, the Canadian bureaucracy that processes these has usually asked for primary documentation, so actual birth certificates or centrally maintained religious records, and only once those have been exhaustively searched and the relevant local offices throw up their hands (via an official "we tried" letter) will they consider things like census forms and border-crossing logs.

It’s not too late, you can adopt adults.

There was a lot of movement back and forth across the border in the northeast.

All the law requires is one Canadian born or naturalized ancestor. This includes those who were actually British subjects domiciled in Canada or its predecessor colonies.

You should look further back up your tree, especially if you family had settled in New England or New York State.

There were successful claims based on more than 4 generations back under the Interim measure in place while Parliament was considering legislative changes.

The Interim Measure was put in place, to satisfy the court ruling, based on the proposed legislation.

Since the bill wasn’t amended during the Parliamentary process, legal experts expect that the amended law will be applied/implemented consistent with the Interim Measure.

Do you obsessively say sorry to people? If yes, you might be a Canadian.