What mistakes do Canadian immigrants make you lose your nationality?

If you and your parents are Canadian citizens born outside Canada, and you reached the age of 28 before 2009, your Canadian citizenship may be revoked.

Bai Di Fink, 36, considers herself a native Canadian. Although she was born in Mexico, she returned to Canada with her parents when she was two months old. She grew up, went to school and got married in a small town in southern Manitoba province, and now lives in BC province.

But earlier this year, after she submitted an application form to renew her passport, Citizenship and Immigration Canada informed her that she was no longer a Canadian citizen.

Growing up in Manitoba, Monica Freeson was shocked to learn that she had lost her Canadian citizenship at the age of 30. Freeson, another woman in the province, is a bit lucky. At the age of 27, she heard that if she didn't reapply, she would lose her Canadian citizenship at the age of 28.

She has lived in Canada since she was six years old, but she has to apply for immigration again.

Geordon Omand, a reporter from Tong Jia News Agency, reported that these three unknown Canadians are similar in that they and their parents were born abroad, and their birth dates were between1February, 977 15 and 198 1 April, 2008 16.

According to a law promulgated by Canada in the 1970s, if both generations were born abroad, the second generation must reapply for Canadian citizenship before reaching the age of 28, otherwise their citizenship will be automatically revoked.

The Minister of Immigration has the right to grant special citizenship.

This law is still valid for people who have reached the age of 28 before 2009.

This law was abolished by the Conservative government in 2009.

However, those who have reached the age of 28 before that year shall still be handled according to the original law. This makes things a little complicated, coupled with poor communication, so that these people don't know the fact that they are not Canadian citizens until one day they need to show their identity, such as renewing their passports.

McLean, a professor at the University of Toronto Law School, told the Canadian News Agency that the original intention of this law was to prevent Canadian citizenship from being passed down from generation to generation by people who were born and lived abroad and had less contact with Canada.

She believes that, at least in theory, it is not unfair to ask the second foreign-born substitute to apply for nationality to prove his connection with this country. The problem is that the government cannot find these people in advance and inform them in time.

A spokesperson for the Canadian Immigration Department said that there are no accurate figures on how many people there are. Galloway, a law professor at the University of Victoria, estimates that there may be hundreds or even thousands of them, many of whom may not know that they are stateless.

The Minister of Immigration has the right to grant nationality under special circumstances. Fank wrote a letter, but received no reply. Monica Freeson got special permission.

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Other circumstances of losing Canadian citizenship.

Nationality problems have also occurred in other groups in the past, such as European "war brides" who married Canadian soldiers during World War II, and overseas-born children of Canadian soldiers. The Canadian government usually corrects their mistakes and restores or approves their nationality.

Another case reported by Canadian News Agency comes from Jim McClellan in Nova Scotia. He was born in America, his mother is a Canadian citizen and his father is an American.

Before 1947, all the children born abroad by Canadian "married women" had no Canadian nationality, while McClellan was born in 1945, which just falls into this category.

He has been living in the United States, and having no Canadian citizenship has little effect on his life. But in 2005, he came to Canada to take care of his sick mother. In order to avoid trouble, he never goes to the hospital to see a doctor.

20 15 after the revision of the Canadian citizenship law, it is expected to obtain Canadian citizenship in the end. But by this time, his lung cancer had spread and transferred to his brain.

He said that he didn't enjoy medical insurance in Canada for one day. His life has come to an end, but I hope his example can make Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau keep his promise that "Canadians are Canadians".