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Updating Canada’s citizenship laws : issues to be addressed : report of the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration

Updating Canada’s citizenship laws : it’s time : report of the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration

This summer (around the 4th of July) my bf and I will be visiting his family in Vermont. They live about 20 minutes from the US/Canada border, and so of course my bf will be taking me up to Canada for a couple hours to go sight seeing.

What kind of documents will I need? I know a couple months ago all you needed was your drivers ID, but will that still be enough this summer?

Any websites you can recommend to give me more information about crossing the border from the US to Canada, and vice versa?

Thanks in advance ^_^

throught out these four years: 1910, 1947, 1967, 1992. Does anyone know the answer? Plzz help me ! thxx

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What criteria does Canada use when accepting immigrants and refugees?

How do the individual and collective rights of Canadians influence immigration laws and policies?

How do provinces influence immigration laws and policies?

This is for my grade 9 social class. We are studying government and have to write an essay on this?

My husband is a Canadian citizen, but not natural born (he was born in El Salvador). He’s lived in the U.S. since he was 16 (yes, legally, ALWAYS). He’s just about to get permanent residency here, and after that comes though he will be able to apply for his citizenship.

However, he doesn’t want to get his citizenship for the U.S. unless he knows for sure that he will be able to keep his Canadian citizenship as well. He is VERY proud to be a Canadian (as well he should be:0)) To quote him, “The only reason I’m still in this damn country is because of you. I want to go home!”

We may end up in Canada one day in the long run, bu if we are going to be here a while it might be worth our while to get him his citizenship. We ask because the rule used to be you couldn’t have dual citizenship unless you were born in one of the countries, which he wasn’t. But, he thinks he heard that the rule changed, and maybe he can. Does anyone know? Thanks.
He’s not worried about the U.S. recognizing his citizenship, he just wants to make sure Canada will always welcome him with open arms. He got there when he was 8 years old (leaving a war-torn El Salvador), got citizenship with his family, and loves Canada… I’d like to say only slightly less than me, but I’m afraid to ask because I don’t want him to confirm that Canada means more to him than his wife.

CAUTION: Before answering, please think for at least 90 seconds. I don’t want sound bites and I don’t want sourceless claims (ie, “More immigrants means more poor people which means more taxpayer dollars going toward welfare. Our economy can’t take that!” — how MANY more taxpayer dollars? In numbers, how BIG of an impact would that have on our economy?).

According to Canada’s statistics database, it takes approx. 180 days to immigrate to Canada. According to England’s counterpart database, it takes on average 6 months to immigrate there. According to New Zealand’s Immigration Services webpage, immigration to NZ takes 6-9 months.

The US doesn’t publish straightforward immigration statistics. But according to the website, the waiting list for Mexico, India and the Philippines is 21-25 years. After that, a prospective immigrant must learn English, pay thousands of dollars in lawyers’ fees, wait at least 7 more years, and pass a US history test that most natural-born US high schoolers can’t pass. His/her application is then at the discretion of immigration officers.

There are plenty of very good people in very bad situations who simply can’t afford that kind of investment (and by can’t afford, I mean they’d literally DIE while waiting to be legally naturalized). Maybe, just maybe, if we made this process a bit more realistic instead of building more walls, we’d be able to aid many needy people without criminalizing them.

And yes, there are some arguments against making immigration laws in the US more humane:

1) Those people should work to change their own governments and improve the quality of life in their own countries.

This argument is naive because it assumes that poor, oppressed individuals who live in absolutely desolate conditions can put together a militia and overthrow their often wealthy, corrupt government without starving to death or being shot down by a more powerful government army. Sure, this is not ALWAYS the exact case in third world nations, but there are always SOME factors stopping the oppressed from having any political influence in their respective nations.

2) We already have too many people in the US.

This is not true. According to the CIA World Factbook, the US has the 180th largest population density out of 241 countries.

3) Many Mexican immigrants are just criminals.

According to the Minnesota Human Rights Group, whose data is used in public middle school curricula, less than one percent of illegal Mexican immigrants will go on to commit any other crime in the US.

A translated quote from the song Frijolero by Mexican band Molotov:

“From the outside, it’s easy to imagine being a Mexican crossing the border, thinking of your family while you cross, and leaving everything you know behind. If YOU had to escape from under the heals of a few elite gringo ranchers, would you keep calling me a good-for-nothing wetback? If it was YOU who had to start from zero.”

i have met a man born and raised in canada i live in the us would like to know if we were to get married how would this work out for us on living in the us would he be able to draw his disability still or retirement from canada