Citizenship Act Coming Into Force Provisions

From CIC’s newsletter, details of which provisions have come into force:

Provisions from Bill C-24 that came into force immediately upon Royal Assent included:

• fast-tracking citizenship applications for members of the Canadian Armed Forces;
• improving clarity on the first generation limit on citizenship for those born abroad;
• enabling children born abroad to serving Crown servants to pass citizenship on to their children born or adopted abroad;
• and streamlined decision-making for issuing discretionary grants  under section 54.

Provisions in the Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act that came into force on August 1, 2014, included:

• the new decision-making model for citizenship applications;
• various measures to improve efficiency of the application process;
• and a new judicial review and appeals process.

Other provisions will come into force on a date to be determined by the Governor in Council

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