We finally got a letter from CIC today, asking for information out whether either parent or any grandparents were working for Canada outside Canada at the time of our each child's birth. It seems like they might be trying to figure out whether the kids might already be citizens. I'm a citizen (first generation born outside Canada), and the kids were born before the 2009 changes to the citizenship law, but my father became a naturalized citizen in the US before my birth and so automatically lost his citizenship as that was the rule at the time, and then his citizenship was retroactively reinstated by the 2009 law, and on that basis my citizenship was granted retroactively to my birth because I was born in the first generation outside Canada, but there's a clause in the law that makes the retroactive citizenship not apply to the second generation born outside Canada, so we sponsored the kids for PR two years ago, and then when they landed as PRs here, they were immediately eligible for citizenship because they have a Canadian parent, and so we applied.
Simple, right? I can't imagine why they'd want more information...
Anyhow, at least I know they finally got around to looking at the application!
