When the amendment to the Canadian Citizenship Act went into effect in December 2025, the expected wait time for processing citizenship applications was about 9 months. Now it’s 33 months.

Before submitting your Canadian citizenship application, double-check your documents. Ensure you're using the latest checklist, arrange your forms correctly, and include necessary passport copies.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Canadian government removed the "first-generation" limit on citizenship by descent, meaning those with Canadian parents, ...

Canada released citizenship waiver guidelines, outlining compassionate grounds for exemptions from test, language, and oath ...

Less than nine months after Parliament allowed those with Canadian ancestors to be recognized as Canadian citizens, the backlog of applications has soared to a new high.

Millions more Americans might qualify for dual Canadian citizenship under a recent change to Canada's requirements that has led to a surge in applications from its southern neighbor. For people like ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ellen Robillard, who lives outside Rochester, New York, visited Nova Scotia in 2025 with her partner, Arthur Wilcox. She's seeking ...

Canada’s citizenship fee schedule reveals CAD 653 for adults, CAD 100 for minors and CAD 123 for stateless adults born to ...

A new law in Canada means that millions of Americans might qualify for dual citizenship as a "Lost Canadian." And that's led to a surge in applications. Immigration lawyers on both sides of the border ...

Canada’s citizenship fees revealed: adults pay CAD 653, while minors and stateless adults born to Canadian parents qualify ...

A new law in Canada means that millions of Americans might qualify for dual citizenship as a "Lost Canadian." And that's led to a surge in applications. Immigration lawyers on both sides of the border ...