Not necessarily. It depends on how you yourself got Canadian citizenship. How did you get citizenship? Were you born in Canada, or did you immigrate here and subsequently get citizenship, or did you get citizenship by descent from a parent?
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Not necessarily. It depends on how you yourself got Canadian citizenship. How did you get citizenship? Were you born in Canada, or did you immigrate here and subsequently get citizenship, or did you get citizenship by descent from a parent?
I was not born in Canada. I got it after living for 4 years in Canada. I have gone through the path ceremony and test
Then your child will be eligible for Canadian citizenship through you.
https://www.cic.gc.ca/english/helpcentre/answer.asp?qnum=365&top=5
Hi, I hope that others can confirm this, but as a Canadian citizen your delivery of a child outside of Canada will still entitle the baby to Canadian citizenship after registry with the High Commission. Many apologies if I am wrong about this, citizenship was never much of an interest compared to the murk of immigration.
You have mentioned that the child's citizenship and your partner's presence for the pregnancy are your chief concerns, so voila - don't do anything other than carry on and take care of yourself.
Yes, it's confirmed - citizens by birth and citizens by naturalization can 'pass on' citizenship to their children born abroad.* Citizens by descent - those born abroad who received it due to their parents - cannot.
*For naturalized citizens, only children born after they become citizens.
Citizens by descent - all citizens really - can, of course, sponsor their children to become PRs, and PR-minors who are children of citizens can apply for a grant of citizenship without meeting the 1095 days of residency required. (Also true for naturalized citizens and their PR-children if still minors).
I don't want to make this any longer, because there are lots of specific cases - anyone interested should ask in the citizenship forum here.
You also have to also consider the important issue of you and your baby needing to meet the residency requirements to qualify for healthcare in Canada. There are residency requirements in each province to qualify for healthcare you must meet the residency requirement and also have a valid health card to qualify to use public healthcare or else you could be asked to repay and healthcare you use. You may also face an up to 3 month wait to qualify for healthcare again depending on how much time you spend out of Canada before returning. If you don’t meet the residency requirement you must reapply for a new health card even if you have a valid one. For a baby you typically have to spend at least 6 months in the province before leaving but it depends on the province. There are residency requirements to prevent people from coming to Canada and using pubic healthcare and then leaving. The residency requirements also attempts to make sure those using the Canadian healthcare system are taxpayers. you sign up for your child’s first health card it typically specifies, at least in Ontario it does, that you will be meeting the residency requirements to receive healthcare in the province. Assume you realize to qualify for any EI maternity payments you must work a certain amount of hours before you have your baby. Unclear how much finances are playing into any decisions you make and whether you are being supported financially or whether you are living off of savings.
So rather waiting for one year to be called common law partner can I just go for conjugal partner and apply for that application it doesn’t seem right to me for waiting one whole year
No, you don't qualify for conjugal. Conjugal is for circumstances where due to immigration barriers, it is impossible for you to get married and also impossible for you to live together for one year continuously to become common law. There is nothing preventing you from living together for a year to become common law. If you apply under conjugal, it will result in a refusal. You must either live together for one year continuously to become common law or he needs to get officially divorced so that the two of you can get married.
Yes, you can get married right away. Make sure he is 100% legally divorced before you get married otherwise Canada will not recognize the marriage.
None as far as Canada is concerned, no. There may be in other countries, don't know.
Key thing is that you must get legally married in the country in question and fully legally divorced before marriage (caution about countries that may allow polygamy, but I assume that doesn't apply in this case).