Parent: Canadian Citizenship

parent: Now, the government announced Thursday, the government will allow non-biological Canadian parents who are a child's legal parent at birth to pass down their citizenship, according to CTV. Laurence Caron, who is Canadian, and her partner Elsje van der Ven, who is Dutch, are responsible for the change after a long legal battle. Previously, children born to Canadians abroad automatically received citizenship only if there was a genetic link between the parent and the child or the parent gave birth to the child. When van der Van gave birth to their son four years ago while they were living in the Netherlands, the couple went to apply for his Canadian citizenship and found out he didn't get it automatically. We were shocked, disappointed and very hurt, Caron said during a virtual news conference Thursday. The reason Caron's biological material was not used for his conception. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.