Friday, April 17, 2009

Americans are Canadian Too

Are you Canadian? I know people who have dual citizenship, and not everybody necessarily understands it. I don’t have it. Sometimes you choose between two countries. Sometimes you choose the United States and sometimes you really have no desire to change citizenship. It’s not about hating one country, but rather loving another. Why pledge your citizenship to one country if you don’t feel it.
But a new law in Canada is making it even easier. Some Americans are now also Canadian, and they don’t even know it! A new amendment to the Canadian citizenship law gives citizenship back to those people who renounced their Canadian citizenship in favor of American citizenship. It also gives that citizenship to their children.
They don’t know exactly how many people will be affected by this new ammendment, just that it may well be thousands. It will happen automatically, but if someone wants proof of it, they would have to apply to find out. In short, that means if a country they have moved to does not allow dual citizenship, they will not be alerted to this change.

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