Cdn Citizenship the LatestChanges/Updates Rules/Regulations

[Harpreet]

I briefly read online somewhere that there were some new changes made to the Canadian citizenship rules and regulations. Could you please tell me what the new updates are?

[Rajpal (Admin)]

In alignment with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and in recognition of the diversity of Canadians, an update was made to the definition/interpretation of a ‘parent’ in the context of Canadian citizenship. The new update allows non-biological Canadian parents who were their child’s legal parent at birth to pass down their Canadian citizenship to their children born abroad in the first generation.

This new update especially benefits Canadian parents who identify themselves under the LGBTQ2+ community. This is because until now, a child born abroad was automatically recognized as a citizen at birth only if the child shared a genetic link (biological parents) to the Canadian parent or if the child was born to a Canadian parent in the first generation.