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Canada: family sponsorship and citizenship by descent

Covers family sponsorship and citizenship by descent in Canada — from the super visa for parents and grandparents to spousal sponsorship refusals. Looks harder than most at where IRCC actually finds grounds to refuse: mismatched dates, a divorce buried in an applicant's history, a signature that doesn't quite line up. What readers get here isn't general advice but sequence: how to handle a procedural fairness letter, the real difference between inland and outland applications, why one signature on a form can trigger a fresh round of evidence requests. It also tracks why the parents and grandparents program shut down and what options remain, and why genealogy sites like Ancestry and FamilySearch don't count as vital records for descent claims. There's a narrower thread too — the Bill C-3 lawsuit and French-Canadian ancestry history behind it, plus recurring mistakes on the citizenship certificate form. What it doesn't do is offer legal representation or case review — just the reasoning behind the rules.

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