Question abouit Dual Citizenship

[Karokekid]

My Mother is a Canadian Citizen she was born in 1950. She moved to the united States in 1981. She is still as Caniadian Citizen. I am a united Stated Citizen born in 1986. Can I apply for dual citizenship. Where could i find information regarding this.

[Leon]

You are automatically a Canadian citizen because your mother is.  You have to apply for a citizenship certificate, see http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/citizenship/proof.asp to prove your citizenship.  When you get it, you can use it to apply for a Canadian passport.  As a dual citizen, you should always use your US passport to travel to and from the US and your Canadian passport to travel to and from Canada but do not waive both of them around at the same time as it will confuse the customs officers.

[jamie168227]

Hi my  name is Jamie M. Brandt and I use to live in Canada 6 years ago and I want to move back there is year, my family lives there and I miss them very much. I had dual Citizenship of both places and I lost the paper that I got from the Courthouse when my family and I moved there in 1997. So what I want to now is how can I get a new Immigration paper to move back home. Please write back soon because I want to move back in the next couple of months. Thanks again Jamie

[links18]

You are automatically a Canadian citizen because your mother is.  You have to apply for a citizenship certificate, see http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/citizenship/proof.asp to prove your citizenship.  When you get it, you can use it to apply for a Canadian passport.  As a dual citizen, you should always use your US passport to travel to and from the US and your Canadian passport to travel to and from Canada but do not waive both of them around at the same time as it will confuse the customs officers.

Any customs officer who doesn't understand the possibility that someone may be a citizen of more than one country at a time should be fired. Your right though, always use the passport of the country you are entering......

[Leon]

Hi my  name is Jamie M. Brandt and I use to live in Canada 6 years ago and I want to move back there is year, my family lives there and I miss them very much. I had dual Citizenship of both places and I lost the paper that I got from the Courthouse when my family and I moved there in 1997. So what I want to now is how can I get a new Immigration paper to move back home. Please write back soon because I want to move back in the next couple of months. Thanks again Jamie

Read my answer above and follow the instructions.

[rupeshhari]

You are automatically a Canadian citizen because your mother is.  You have to apply for a citizenship certificate, see http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/citizenship/proof.asp to prove your citizenship.  When you get it, you can use it to apply for a Canadian passport.  As a dual citizen, you should always use your US passport to travel to and from the US and your Canadian passport to travel to and from Canada but do not waive both of them around at the same time as it will confuse the customs officers.

Any customs officer who doesn't understand the possibility that someone may be a citizen of more than one country at a time should be fired. Your right though, always use the passport of the country you are entering......

not just entering. If you are leaving or entering a country and you hold that passport, use that passport to leave or enter the country respectively. If you leave US and enter Canada, use US passport to leave US and Canadian passport to enter Canada. Thats my understanding anyway. I am a dual citizen and it is law in one of the countries that I have to leave or enter using their passport. They don't care how I left the country I was in just before entering my country.

[rupeshhari]

You are automatically a Canadian citizen because your mother is.  You have to apply for a citizenship certificate, see http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/citizenship/proof.asp to prove your citizenship.  When you get it, you can use it to apply for a Canadian passport.  As a dual citizen, you should always use your US passport to travel to and from the US and your Canadian passport to travel to and from Canada but do not waive both of them around at the same time as it will confuse the customs officers.

Any customs officer who doesn't understand the possibility that someone may be a citizen of more than one country at a time should be fired. Your right though, always use the passport of the country you are entering......

Yes, all customs officer know about dual passports but it can still create confusion. When I traveled to UK from my home country and then return to US (where I am living now), the embassy guy from the UK who was at the airport insisted that the Americans would not let me know into their country. He was prepared to let me into the UK but he was worried about my subsequent trip (out of concern not out of being difficult). I had to convince him that he should let me deal with the Americans. As for the Americans, they never seem to care as long as you are legally entering their country.

[mgonzalez]

I have a question I got married to an american citizen and moved to the states and and trying to apply for permanent residency in the US ..but i dont want to lose my Canadian Citizenship.. do i have to do somthing to make sure I dont lose it? And how do i renew my passport living abroad? can it be sent to me in the US?

[Leon]

You don't lose Canadian citizenship even though you get PR and citizen of the US.  You can renew your passport at http://www.ppt.gc.ca/cdn/form.aspx?lang=eng&region=USA

[tme]

Greetings all, I thought I would add on to this as my query is somewhat similar.  I currently have dual citizenship - holding both a Canadian and American passport.  I have been living in the UK for 7+ years and am looking to possibly return home to Canada soon.  Before this I thought it would be worth applying for a british passport in order to keep the possibility of returning to Europe for work open in the future.  Is anyone aware of any issues that this may cause - holding 3 passports from these countries.  My initial inquiries thus far have been positive in that the canadian high commission in london didn't think it was a problem.

thanks

[Leon]

There is no problem.  The US doesn't care as long as you don't tell them and don't walk in there waiving all your passports at the same time.  They just want to see your US passport when you enter or leave the US.  Canada cares even less.  The UK, allows you to have other citizenships too so same there.