Never lived here—still Canadian? The new citizenship question

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Millions of Americans who never realized they had Canadian ties are now discovering they may already qualify for citizenship under Bill C-3, An Act to Amend the Citizenship Act, which expands citizenship by descent beyond the previous one-generation limit. It’s triggered a surge of applications as people with Canadian grandparents or more distant ancestry explore their options. To talk more about this, Evan is joined by Chris Veeman, an immigration lawyer at Veeman Law.
6 May 1PM English Canada News Commentary

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