{"id":78513,"date":"2020-07-10T14:59:51","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T18:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immigrationca.staging.wpengine.com\/canada-changes-rules-on-who-qualifies-for-citizenship-at-birth"},"modified":"2020-07-10T14:59:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T18:59:51","slug":"canada-changes-rules-on-who-qualifies-for-citizenship-at-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/canada-changes-rules-on-who-qualifies-for-citizenship-at-birth\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Changes Rules on Who Qualifies for Citizenship at Birth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canada has changed the rules on qualifying for Canadian citizenship<\/a> to help non-biological parents with children born abroad.<\/span><\/p>\n

The change in interpretation of the Citizenship Act allows non-biological parents to pass down citizenship to their first-generation children born abroad.<\/span><\/p>\n

Announced by Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino on Thursday, the change helps Canadian parents who have relied on assisted human reproduction to start a family, including members of the LGBTQ2+ community and couples with fertility issues. <\/span><\/p>\n

Previously, children born abroad were only automatically recognized as a citizen if they shared a genetic link to a Canadian parent, or if born to a Canadian parent in the first generation.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The change comes after a legal fight launched by Laurence Caron and her Dutch-born wife Elsie van der Ven. Van der Ven bore their first child, Benjamin, while living in the Netherlands. But when they tried to obtain citizenship, they ran into problems.<\/span><\/p>\n

With no biological link to Caron, Benjamin was not entitled to citizenship. Denied a passport, the only option for the family was an immigration application.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, a lengthy battle has resulted in a change in interpretation of what constitutes a \u2018parent\u2019 under the Citizenship Act, in a declaration made by the Quebec Superior Court.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI am very happy to announce this historic and positive declaration made by Quebec\u2019s Superior Court,\u201d Mendicino said. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis change by Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada means that non-biological legal parents at birth and biological parents are now viewed equally as a child\u2019s parent for the purposes of citizenship by descent. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCanadian LGBTQ2+ families and parents experiencing fertility issues have waited too long for this important day. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI know this was a difficult and stressful time for the Caron\/van der Ven family, and Canada is grateful to them for the courage and strength they have shown in righting this wrong.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

A statement from the family said: \u201cWe are extremely happy and relieved that the court corrected this discriminating policy, not only for our family but also for many same-sex and non-traditional families around the world who could not get Canadian citizenship for their children.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Canada has changed the rules on qualifying for Canadian citizenship to help non-biological parents with children born abroad. The change in interpretation of the Citizenship Act allows non-biological parents to pass down citizenship to their first-generation children born abroad. Announced by Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino on Thursday, the change helps Canadian parents who have relied…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":78508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4859],"tags":[69723,67698,69724],"class_list":["post-78513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lactualite-canadienne","tag-citizenship-act-fr","tag-marco-mendicino-fr","tag-qualifying-for-canadian-citizenship-fr","category-4859","description-off"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}