Has anyone successfully obtained Canadian Citizenship?
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Anonymous
Only if you don't want to hang onto your own money. |
Anonymous
This is not correct. Im US born and got dual Australian citizenship when I was 27. |
Anonymous
| Don't you have to pay taxes to both countries? |
Anonymous
Was this recently? Because I am trying to get dual citizenship from the country of my spouse, I was born in US and the state dept rep warned me a few months ago that applying to another country could render me stateless. She scared the crap out of me. |
Anonymous
I believe (correct me if I'm wrong someone), US is the only country which requires their citizen to pay tax even though the citizen resides elsewhere outside of US. In another words, if you are a citizen of, say, Canada, but live in US, you don't have to pay tax to Canada because you don't have the established residency in Canada. kind of thing. (I'm just using Canada as an example) |
Anonymous
Yup. You either have easy access to the papers you need, or you don't. The instructions on the canadian immigration page are very clear. A lawyer isn't going to help you track down the paperwork, unless you just have money to burn. So either way, a lawyer isn't adding much value to this. |
Anonymous
Ah, classic american line to justify why you live in a second world country. If you're middle class or a "rich" wage earner (as in, someone whose income comes primarily from earned wages, and not from investments), your effective tax rate in the US is like 2-3% less than in Canada. Now add up everything you pay for healthcare out of pocket, private preschool, private schools (if your kids go - much less common in canada where almost all public schools are pretty good paths to university), college for you and/or your kids, grad school for you and/or your kids.... throw in the general stress of wondering how you're going to pay for all those things, and then tell me if you'd just rather have them all covered by your extra 2-3% taxes. If you're warrant buffett, you're much better off in the US. |
Anonymous
If you're born in the US, you ALWAYS have a tax obligation to the US. You only have a tax obligation in Canada if you physically live there. So if you're living in canada, and born in the US, you are required to file a tax return in the US every year reporting your worldwide income, and you get a credit for all the taxes you pay in canada. So you won't owe anything in the US. |
AmyForever
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| One thing is for sure you have to brace yourself for a looong process. All you need is a immigration lawyer and money to pay the fees Good Luck!! |
Anonymous
| I have obtained Canadian Citizenship ( https://mylawyer.ca/ helped me a lot in the process). It was a tough and time-consuming process. Though my position is that as an independent country, Canada has every right to set the rules about exactly who can become a citizen here and the length of time that it takes to get that status, too. |
Anonymous
I've met people who have fled Canada to come and work and live in the U.S. because our healthcare is so much better. The Canadian healthcare system is not good. |
Anonymous
These are wives tails. I grew up in canada. My family and all my childhood friends are in canada. No one flees canada for US healthcare. People end up coming to the US for a variety of reasons and some like to bitch about healthcare when they leave. It's not why they left canada. |
Anonymous
For the OP's situation, it is NOT a long process. Super quick process since her mom is already a canadian citizen and is just asking for the certificate to prove it. |
Anonymous
| It will be an easy process and I can't imagine why you'd need a lawyer. My DH is Canadian and I am filling out my kids' paperwork myself. It is no more complicated than a passport application. |
Anonymous
They always say that, which is why you have to be prepared. I got mine in 1997 and have renewed my US passport twice, the last time in 2015. The first time I renewed (2001) was a nightmare because the passport officer was not familiar with the Supreme Court rulings that established my right to dual citizenship. Luckily, I had copies of the rulings. But even after she read them, it took her an uncomfortably long time to hand me my new US passport. Google Supreme Court and US dual citizenship for info about the cases. It's nearly impossible to lose your natural-born citizenship unless you yourself renounce it officially and specifically, and an oath to another country, which is what you take when you get dual citizenship, does not constitute a public renouncement of your birth country. BUT, check with a lawyer, just in case something has changed in the last few years and b/c it's kind of complicated and if they give you hell, you need to know what to say. The second time I renewed, no problem at all. PS The State Department knows about the rulings, but, for reasons I don't understand, they insist on being jerks about it. |