Lost Citizenship??

[meta]

We are confused by the laws and random info online! Please help!
Person born in US in 1966 to one US parent and one Canadian. They move to Canada in 1970. They obtain Canadian citizenship for their son and have a certification of registration of birth abroad. He moves away in 1988 and lets his Canadian passport expire. He lives in the US only from then on. He has a Nexus pass if that means anything. Is there any reason to think that he is somehow no longer a Canadian citizen? Would a reapplication to get a new Canadian passport be successful? Some info online seems to suggest he might fall under the category of "lost Canadians" when the laws changed. Is there any truth to this? Thank you so much for any guidance.

 

[Riley Haas]

No, he's a Canadian citizen. From your description he's not a lost Canadian. He should be able to apply for passport if he has his citizenship card/certificate. If he's lost this, he'll have to apply for a replacement first. He should submit a letter explaining he needs the citizenship certificate for his passport application and show he needs to travel. If he can do this, the citizenship certificate replacement application may be rushed (though who knows during the pandemic).

 

[meta]

No, he's a Canadian citizen. From your description he's not a lost Canadian. He should be able to apply for passport if he has his citizenship card/certificate. If he's lost this, he'll have to apply for a replacement first. He should submit a letter explaining he needs the citizenship certificate for his passport application and show he needs to travel. If he can do this, the citizenship certificate replacement application may be rushed (though who knows during the pandemic).

Thank you. He has lost his citizenship card. He only has his expired Canadian passport and a birth abroad registration. Is your group seeing some citizenship cards and passport applications coming through at all? If we "rush" the process and use a consultant, do you have any sense of how long each step may take? I know you can't say exactly--I'm just wondering what you are seeing with other clients right now. Thanks so much! I really appreciate it.

 

[Riley Haas]

Let me ask a consultant.

 

[Riley Haas]

She says that she isn't getting acknowledgements of receipt from March, even. So that means IRCC is months behind schedule. She doesn't believe urgent requests are being processed right now.

Sorry for the bad information.