Recent content by Elysia

Thank you so much for your help! I had edited my post to make my birth year clear, so that wasn't you. I am feeling much, much better about all of this, and am so glad I found this forum. I realize that a border agent isn't an expert, but my grandfather was a Canadian border agent, and so I...

Thank you! I'll still be a bit nervous until I get the certificate, though.

Thank you. I was born in 1964. I had reasoned that my mother became a Canadian citizen in 1947 when she was 7, and the 2009 law made me a citizen based on being first generation. Part of my confusion was that a Canadian border agent told me that I was not. He said that because she was born...

My mother was born in New Brunswick in 1940, and lived in Canada until 1964, when she married a US citizen and moved to the U.S. and had me (also in 1964). She became a naturalized US citizen in the mid 1990's (I believe she is now a dual citizen). Am I a citizen? I know there are a lot of...