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Letters shared on social media and signed by Peggy Sun, Registrar of Canadian Citizenship, say in part: “I am writing pursuant to subsection 26(1) of the Citizenship Regulations. This provision authorizes me to require the surrender of a certificate of citizenship where I have reasonable grounds to believe that the holder of the certificate may…
The immigration department says it has temporarily paused the finalization of some new citizenship by descent applications after “a few dozen” people were told their issued citizenship certificates must be surrendered pending a review. A statement issued late Wednesday says “the department is reviewing how this occurred” and is taking steps to ensure applications are…
An 81-year-old Lebanese man with dementia who obtained refugee status in Canada “on the basis of threats from terrorist organizations” in his homeland, then lost it for returning to Lebanon five times to visit his sick and dying siblings and to attend their funerals, has won another shot at staying in this country. Read More
The federal government has suddenly suspended a number of Canadian citizenship certificates issued to people around the world who became eligible for citizenship late last year. In a notice emailed Saturday to an unknown number of people who successfully applied for and obtained citizenship certificates based on having a Canadian ancestor, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship…
When Vice-Admiral Angus Topshee spoke Friday in Halifax at the keel-laying ceremony for Canada’s first River-class destroyer, his words could have been interpreted as describing one of the vessels HMCS Fraser is named after. “We have always been a destroyer navy, a navy that has small ships capable of doing big things anywhere that Canada…