Citizenship application - first generation limit

[amye2024]

Hi all,
I'm a Canadian citizen by descent, born outside Canada, and had my own children outside of Canada as well. Since they were born after 2009, they were not entitled to receive Canadian citizenship, but I was able to sponsor them and move to Canada with them and my partner as PR's several months ago.
I have applied for their citizenship from here, and that application is in process. In the meantime I see that Bill 3 has received royal assent and my kids may automatically become citizens. I am not sure if I should apply for citizenship certificates for them, or just wait it out and see what IRCC says. Would their application be rejected? Or is the application supposed to result in a certificate either way? I'm sure there's a lot of uncertainties about this, but hoping for some clarity.

 

[Seym]

This is not really an answer to your post but something worth considering :
If you've already applied for their citizenship, they will probably get it very soon (a few months max probably). It won't really make a difference to them whether the certificate of citizenship lists the day they get their oath ceremony or the day they were born as the effective start date of the citizenship.
But, and this is mostly my opinion : they're already well on their way to get a citizenship very soon. Stopping this application to go with the new law will not change much in their lives for now, but 20 30 years from now, their own kids, if born outside Canada, would be the third generation born outside Canada if you get their citizenship through descent and not naturalization. There's already more paperwork involved in getting the citizenship through descent (proving the 1095 days of physical presence for the parent...), and your kids would potentially need to justify these 1095 days themselves instead of just needing their own certificate to transmit the canadian citizenship to their own kids, and this is assuming the law stays as is, but maybe it doesn't, and a third generation born outside may, by then, have a much harder time getting the citizenship VS a first generation born outside.
So, not a problem for today and not a problem for years, and maybe your kids won't care much by then, if if they do and end up living outside Canada, the logistics will very probably be easier down the line the day your own kids have kids if you just let their naturalization process continue and complete by February or March instead of claiming their citizenship by descent yourself.

 

[amye2024]

This is not really an answer to your post but something worth considering :
If you've already applied for their citizenship, they will probably get it very soon (a few months max probably). It won't really make a difference to them whether the certificate of citizenship lists the day they get their oath ceremony or the day they were born as the effective start date of the citizenship.
But, and this is mostly my opinion : they're already well on their way to get a citizenship very soon. Stopping this application to go with the new law will not change much in their lives for now, but 20 30 years from now, their own kids, if born outside Canada, would be the third generation born outside Canada if you get their citizenship through descent and not naturalization. There's already more paperwork involved in getting the citizenship through descent (proving the 1095 days of physical presence for the parent...), and your kids would potentially need to justify these 1095 days themselves instead of just needing their own certificate to transmit the canadian citizenship to their own kids, and this is assuming the law stays as is, but maybe it doesn't, and a third generation born outside may, by then, have a much harder time getting the citizenship VS a first generation born outside.
So, not a problem for today and not a problem for years, and maybe your kids won't care much by then, if if they do and end up living outside Canada, the logistics will very probably be easier down the line the day your own kids have kids if you just let their naturalization process continue and complete by February or March instead of claiming their citizenship by descent yourself.

Hi thank you, that's a very good point.
Just a qq, where do you see these timelines?

 

[Seym]

Hi thank you, that's a very good point.
Just a qq, where do you see these timelines?

You can only see your own timeline, or in your case your kids' timelines through the tracker, but many people who apply and don't have to go through extensive security checks and physical presence issues routinely get their citizenship in 4 or 5 months (including me and most of my family). As both security and physical presence are a moot point for minor applicants with a Canadian parent, there's a very high chance their applications fall within the shorter timeframe of "easy applications".