The Canadian government began notifying thousands of individuals this week that their recently approved citizenship status is being suspended and their certificates must be returned.
The recall focuses on applicants who used the 2025 "Lost Canadians" law, which allowed those born abroad to claim citizenship through long-lost ancestral ties. Immigration Minister Lena Diab stated that officials are reviewing cases where applicants relied on genealogy websites that may not satisfy the legal requirement to prove a direct link in every single generation. Legal experts and opposition MPs are calling the move unconstitutional, arguing that approved citizens are being left in legal limbo without due process.
The immigration department has frozen all new applications under this descent-based rule while it probes the validity of the data used in thousands of cases.
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