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Second Citizenship, Offshore Investing & Expat Money Strategies for High Net Worth Canadians

For high-net-worth Canadians, the idea of obtaining a second passport isn’t just about escaping winter or avoiding long immigration lines, it’s about financial flexibility, risk ma...

Dual citizenship, eh? Under new law, millions of Americans may now also be considered Canadian

A recent change to Canada's requirements has led to a surge in applications from its southern neighbor.

Americans can’t just move to Europe and get a job, but Canadians can – and you might already be Canadian

If you’re a 25-year-old American who wants to spend a year working in London, you have a problem. The UK doesn’t offer working holiday visas to US citizens. You’d typically need an...

Canadians ramp up foreign investing, triggering sharp capital outflow in February

Investor shift abroad drives $19.2B net outflow as equity demand surges

U.S. leads interest by wide margin in getting Canadian citizenship by descent

OTTAWA — A new law expanding eligibility for Canadian citizenship led to an initial uptick in applications from a handful of countries including the United States, the United Kingd...

The Canadian passport has become Americans’ backup of choice

This spring, thousands of Americans have found what they believe might be the perfect backup plan: a Canadian passport. Last December, Canada eliminated the generational limit to i...

Record Number of Americans Living Abroad Will Drive Most Expat Tax Filings in History

- More people left the U.S. than arrived for the first time since the Great Depression - Citizenship renunciations up 1,400% since 2004 - FBAR filings nearly doubled since 2013, fr...

Americans are digging up family trees to claim Canadian passports as residency plan B

A change to Canada's citizenship law has opened a path for millions of Americans to claim dual nationality, and many are rushing to do so as a contingency against political upheava...

Best International Stocks for Canadians: Should You Invest Outside Canada?

With USMCA negotiations about to begin, and the Canadian housing market having a pretty rough go, we’re getting a lot of emails and questions about the best international stocks ou...

US Expat Taxes: 14 Tips From the Experts Who Help Americans Abroad

New country, new bank account, new tax system. Same annual hello from the IRS. For Americans living abroad, U.S. tax obligations often continue long after the moving boxes are unpa...

Letters: ‘Will Canada take me back?’

"Though I have spent more than four decades living in the United States, my sense of home has never left." The post Letters: ‘Will Canada take me back?’ appeared first on Montreal...

Americans aren’t moving to Canada: They just want the passport

In the wake of Canada’s new citizenship law, thousands of Americans with Canadian ancestry have been applying for proof of Canadian citizenship—with no intention of moving. They’re...

I am a dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada. However, while I lived in Canada for a very brief period when I was a kid, I...

The following have right leaning point of view. I don't recommend them because of this:The Globe & MailAny newspaper owned by Postmedia (The National Post, The Vancouver Sun, T...

Canada confronts $1 trillion capital exodus with Toronto investment summit plan

Prime Minister Mark Carney uses the new summit bid to chase a trillion in new investment for the country

Trump says Canada should join America. These Americans are joining Canada instead

In December 2024, Donald Trump stood at Mar-a-Lago and told Canada’s prime minister that his country should become America’s 51st state. In the months that followed, he posted an A...

So you want to be Canadian, eh? Changes in immigration law will make it easier for Americans

Millions more Americans might qualify for dual Canadian citizenship under a recent change to Canada’s requirements that has led to a surge in applications from its southern neighbo...

Americans lead interest in claiming dual Canadian citizenship by descent

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada reports receiving more than 12,000 citizenship by descent applications between Dec. 15 and the end of January.

Good News, Frustrated Progs - Turning Canadian Just Became So Much Easier

After Canada loosens citizenship requirements, thousands of people apply

After Canada changed a law opening up citizenship opportunities, thousands of Americans are trying to become citizens of their northern neighbor. It's partly for political and pers...

Prince Edward Island Archives logs four years worth of document requests in four months, as Americans rush for Canadian...

The Public Archives and Records Office of the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island has seen a drastic surge in document requests from Americans seeking Canadian ancestry recor...

Americans are celebrating Canadian citizenship week

This year’s citizenship week celebration in Canada (spanning April 12–18) is the first to include millions of Americans, who were granted Canadian citizenship four months ago. Cana...

Change in citizenship law opens route to Canadian passports for 300,000 Connecticut residents

Close to 300,000 Connecticut residents became U.S.-Canadian dual citizens overnight when Canada updated its citizenship by descent law.  The changes to Canada’s Citizenship Act, wh...

Millions of Americans may now also qualify for Canadian citzenship under a new law

Since the new law took effect Dec. 15, immigration lawyers in the United States and Canada say they have been overwhelmed by clients seeking help submitting proof of citizenship ap...

Expat or immigrant?

Irishman decided to live in France, I am an immigrant and have zero issues being labelled as such. The locals don’t mind me particularly as I spend my UK earnings in their local ec...