'Lost Canadians' can now get citizenship while update to law faces delays

David Baxter · The Canadian Press

· Posted: Mar 13, 2025 2:05 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

Immigration Minister Marc Miller is giving alleged "lost Canadians" a accidental to person Canadian citizenship, present that court-mandated authorities volition not beryllium passed by the deadline.

"Lost Canadians" is simply a word applied to radical who were calved extracurricular of the state to Canadian parents who were besides calved successful different country.

In 2009, the Conservative authorities changed the instrumentality truthful that radical who were calved overseas could not walk down their citizenship unless their kid was calved successful Canada.

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruled successful precocious 2023 that the instrumentality was unconstitutional and the existent Liberal authorities agreed with the ruling.

Since that ruling, the authorities received 3 extensions to the deadline to walk authorities extending citizenship to those affected by the law.

Miller says the authorities is applying for a 12-month hold to the existent March 19 deadline and allowing for "discretionary" citizenship grants for affected radical and for imaginable "lost Canadians" who person a genitor with citizenship who has spent astatine slightest 3 cumulative years successful Canada.