“Protecting Canadian Citizenship” – Citizenship Fraud Update – Numbers Still Small
2014/10/22 2 Comments
Given the number of citizenship fraud investigations (some 3200), numbers are still relatively low (see my earlier Overstating “Fraud” – New Canadian Media – NCM).
While 300 Notices of Intent to Revoke Citizenship may seem a lot, in the context of an average 140,000 new citizens per year – 2009-13, or the 200,000 plus this year, appears that the rhetoric has exceeded the reality):
Since the beginning of 2014, the Government has revoked the citizenship of 22 people who obtained their Canadian citizenship through fraud or misrepresentation
… Since 1988, the government has revoked citizenship from 119 individuals who were found to have obtained their citizenship fraudulently.
The Government is revoking citizenship on a scale that has never been done before with 300 Notices of Intent to Revoke Citizenship since July 2011.
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It would have been nice to get a notice when my citizenship and that of my brother’s was revoked in 2003. I do think the numbers officially given for revocation are extremely low, as there were thousands who got theirs restored in 2009 and there are still lost of us left out. Perhaps it the reason for our revocation had been fraud, we would have at least been given some sort of warning or notice.
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