Five Months Dept: But 40 years later, their effort to ensure their son s citizenship has resulted in their grandson being ineligible for his, according to The Star. It s ludicrous, said Compton. The most important thing for me to do for my children would be to give them my heritage of being Canadian. And I can t do that and when Paul Compton was born in Scotland, his parents rushed to register him as a Canadian born abroad. They were finishing university and were eager to cross the Atlantic to raise their son as a true Canuck. Compton s son Mateo was born in Lima, Peru, just five months after a revamp of the Citizenship Act last April brought a first-generation limit to citizenship by descent for Canadians born abroad. As
reported in the news.
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