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Originally Posted by kwoldtimer
Hardly the first time someone found out after years that they were not Canadian. Could be an error. Maybe came to attention through a passport application?
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If someone has lived nearly their entire life in Canada under the presumption that they are Canadian, and, with documentation stating as such, then surely there should be special consideration given. To deport this person at this point would be utter madness.
This was always a concern for my mother actually. She was born in the US, but, was sent back to PEI to be raised by her grandparents while she was still an infant after her own mother died in the 1917 flu pandemic. To the best of her knowledge, no formal application was ever made to confirm her Canadian citizenship (even though both her parents were Canadian). She was never red flagged however. She never applied for a passport, but, had no difficulty getting her CPP and OAS.
She is long since dead however, and, her pension applications would have been from the early 1980s. Maybe the rules were different then, or, less rigidly applied.