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Why older Americans are among the most active claimants of Canadian citizenship by descent

Since Bill C-3 took effect on December 15, 2025, older Americans have emerged as a significant share of those claiming Canadian citizenship by descent. For many, the appeal is a se...

Identity Beyond Citizenship: What Remains When the State Refuses to Recognise You?

Citizenship and even nationality should never determine whether a person’s identity is considered valid or possible The post Identity Beyond Citizenship: What Remains When the Stat...

Conclusive Proof Of Citizenship: Legal Gap Or Political Overreach?

For decades, the citizenship of an Indian national was rarely a matter of public debate. Indians voted in elections, held passports, enrolled in government welfare schemes and carr...

Your ancestor’s Canadian birth could make you a citizen, thanks to Bill C-3

Birthright citizenship has been in the spotlight this past week after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Donald Trump’s order seeking to end it in the United States. While the pres...

Bloodright Citizenship (Citizenship by Descent): Who Decides?

An excerpt from Friday's concurrence in Guerra Quezada v. U.S., by Fifth Circuit Judge James Ho: The Constitution vests Congress—not… The post Bloodright Citizenship (Citizenship b...

These are the relatives who can support your citizenship by descent claim, and the ones who cannot

Marc Thibault thought his family was Canadian for as long as he could remember. He grew up in Maine, spent three decades in Nashville, and carried a surname that came from somewher...

Beyond the passport: The legal ambiguity of Indian citizenship

A recent government statement sparked controversy by clarifying that passports are only travel documents. This article explores the legal complexities of proving citizenship in Ind...

Challenge to citizenship refusal under section 3(1) by stateless children refused for lack of supporting evidence

A recent High Court decision to refuse a judicial review challenge serves as a clear reminder that discretionary registration applications turn on the strength of the evidence prov...

Claims of Forced Citizenship Emerge as China Tightens Exit Controls

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) recently announced that new Regulations on Exit and Entry Administration will take effect on Sept. 15, prompting widespread concern and discussion...

Identity beyond citizenship: What remains when the State refuses to recognise you?

Documents can confirm a legal relationship with a state, but they cannot create or erase a person’s existence, history, family, or sense of belonging.

The invisible crisis that strips people of citizenship

This issue fascinates me because of its near-invisibility: As many of our Spotlight articles observe, citizenship is easy to take for granted when you receive it automatically and...

Two documents do most of the work in a Canadian citizenship by descent claim

Though they should all ideally be included in a citizenship by descent application, not all the documents requested by Canada’s immigration department are created equally in terms...

Your citizenship by descent claim needs proof your ancestor was naturalized. This free list may hold it

You know your great-grandfather came to Canada from somewhere in Eastern Europe. You know he naturalized and became Canadian because your grandmother said so. What you do not have...

Why More Diaspora Jamaicans Are Claiming Citizenship by Descent

More Jamaicans in the diaspora are making their connection to the island official. Applications for Jamaican citizenship have surged in the United States, driven in large part by p...

Who gets to be American

For more than 150 years, birthright citizenship has meant that almost every child born on American soil begins life as an American citizen, regardless of where their parents came f...

My American parent never had a Canadian passport. Can I still claim Canadian citizenship?

One of the most common misconceptions about Canada’s citizenship by descent law is that your parent had to be born in Canada, or have held a Canadian passport, for you to be a Cana...

IRCC groups your citizenship by descent documents into primary and secondary tiers: Here is the list

You have a document for every generation, from your Canadian ancestor down to you. What you may not know is that IRCC counts some of them for far more than others, and a single gen...

Birthright Citizenship Ruling: What HR Needs to Know Now

In Trump v. Barbara, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the Administration’s attempt to limit birthright citizenship by executive action and left intact the Fourteenth Amendment’s gua...

Your Polish ancestors may have left your family a Canadian citizenship claim

If your family tree runs back to Poland, part of it may run through Canada. And if it does, you might be a Canadian citizen without knowing it. The Polish migration to North Americ...

Laboratories of (un)democracy

Please note that SCOTUS Outside Opinions constitute the views of outside contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SCOTUSblog or its staff.Moments after the Supre...

Generation zero: your ancestor didn’t have to be born in Canada to pass on Canadian citizenship

Many people researching their family history assume there’s only one way to have a Canadian ancestor: that at some point, someone in their lineage must have been born in Canada. Bu...

Citizenship in limbo: Why Assam’s Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) Pathway struggled to gain traction

While Assam’s government urged residents to utilize the Citizenship Amendment Act, widespread fears of undermining existing legal claims and forced migrant status led many families...

Adopted by a Canadian citizen? Here’s how citizenship by descent works for you

Bill C-3 removed the former first-generation limit for some people born or adopted before December 15, 2025. As a result, some adopted people who were previously unable to inherit...

US citizenship applicants face renewed neighbourhood scrutiny under new USCIS guidance