Citizenship

Immigration Minister Marc Miller is expected to table legislation today that would extend citizenship to some children born outside of the country.

Tom Kmiec criticized the sharp increase in temporary residents in Canada, as a large number of potential immigrants compete for few permanent resident opportunities. 

The Ontario Ministry of Education says it will not renew its contract with We Charity and will investigate any expenditures to date.

The federal government fast-tracked the Canadian citizenship process for a University of Manitoba professor, citing the "urgent need" to facilitate his planned research on COVID-19.

The parents of Jack Letts, a British-Canadian man imprisoned in northern Syria, are chastising Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer for saying he wouldn't lift a finger to help their son.

Ahmad Almahmoud has dedicated time every day to follow the news, wanting to be an informed citizen for this fall's federal election.

As the number of displaced people worldwide reaches modern highs, new figures show Canada resettled more refugees last year than any other country and had the second-highest number of refugees who gained citizenship.

A woman in Alberta says she feels like she's not Canadian enough after her daughters were denied citizenship.

For a long time after I came to Canada, I thought I would never feel at home again. I thought, “this must be what it means to be an immigrant — to never feel at home.”

Coalition Avenir Quebec Leader Francois Legault said on Sunday, September 16, 2018, he was on "solid ground" with his immigration proposals, despite having incorrectly answered a question on the subject.

International law does not require Canada to give citizenship to babies born on its soil, the federal government is telling the Supreme Court — an argument that could inadvertently bolster a recent Conservative party resolution aimed at stemming so-called birth tourism.

The federal government's rationale for trying to deny Canadian citizenship to the Toronto-born son of Russian spies leads down an "absurd and purposeless" path, the young man's lawyers argue.

More than a year after Maryam Monsef revealed she was not actually born in Afghanistan, as she had previously believed, the Liberal cabinet minister is still waiting for the government to update her documents.

A pledge by Andrew Scheer to yank federal funding from universities that fail to uphold free speech wouldn't apply to a decision by the University of Toronto to ban a nationalist rally from campus.

Byrdie Funk marked Canada Day by taking a citizenship oath, but unlike the 150 people around her who also raised their right arm to do the same, she is hardly a newcomer.