Can Immigration Canada cancel Canadian Citizenship

[lightfoot44]

Lightfoot44,

Part of the requirements when applying for an adopted minor where the sponsor (you) is not residing in Canada or where the adopted child will not be returning to Canada are covered under 5.1 of the Citizenship Regulations i.e.

(c) whether, in all other cases,
(i) a competent authority has conducted or approved a home study of the parent or parents, as the case may be,
(ii) before the adoption, the person's parent or parents, as the case may be, gave their free and informed consent to the adoption,
(iii) the pre-existing legal parent-child relationship was permanently severed by the adoption, and
(iv) there is no evidence that the adoption was for the purpose of child trafficking or undue gain within the meaning of the Hague Convention on Adoption.

Did you have (i), (ii) and (iii) in your case?

got all that, and done all that.

 

[lightfoot44]

So neither of you have spent much time with your daughter after the adoption because you can not get her to the US? I think immigration would look at that you adopted her but you continue to live in the US and she is over there. They look at that it is your wife's niece and they figure you are still seeing her as your niece and not your daughter because you are not willing to drop everything to stay with her. Would it be enough if your wife stayed with her for 2 years?

I have no idea what happened with Canadian immigration. Have you talked to a lawyer? I don't think they can issue a citizenship certificate and then just revoke it without even telling you.

We went through an intensive court proceeding in the Philippines, and had a homestudy done there as well as in the US. We don't see her very often, but she is our daughter, and we see her as such. It would be enough for the US government if either of us stayed there 2 years straight, but that is an extreme hardship on us. It would actually be easier to move to Canada with her, or just leave N. America and reside permanently in the Philippines. That is how stupid this has become.

 

[Msafiri]

lightfoot44,

Well you certainly have done your part so it appears there is a major error on the CIC side of things unless they revisited the application without your knowledge but due process means you should have been contacted during this. Have you written to the Canadian diplomatic post that dealt with this application presumably Manila?

 

[lightfoot44]

lightfoot44,

Well you certainly have done your part so it appears there is a major error on the CIC side of things unless they revisited the application without your knowledge but due process means you should have been contacted during this. Have you written to the Canadian diplomatic post that dealt with this application presumably Manila?

I wrote to Sydney NS where we filed our initial application. Whether or not they answer me is up for grabs. They better or the next place I'll go is to the Canadian Prime Minister's office, to find out why Canadians abroad have less rights thnt Canadians living in Canada. Why issue a citizenship certificate unless it's valid? Are they just printing pieces of paper and sending them to everyone just to keep them quiet, or is this some kind of bogus citizenship with no ability to get a passport. Like Patrick Henry said about the US Constitution: " I smell a rat."