Citizenship and Immigration committee  I have worked with a member of Parliament. At this point, there is no resolution.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you very much.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, my children are not here. My daughter was born in Toronto but they are also in the States. We moved to the States because of my husband's work. It was a case of the jobs not being in British Columbia at the time, and he was offered a position with a former employer. So we're

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, I do. I had to do that for the requirement after 9/11. You needed to have a passport. I had never intended to take out U.S. citizenship. I had never intended to do that. Canada has always been my home of heart, and to me, until I was denied in 2005, I always considered mysel

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I do have a passport, but it's not one that I wish to use. It's a U.S. passport. I had to do something--

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I am not legally Canadian. I have been denied twice. My last one was under subsection 5(4), and I'm being told--

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It was in 2009.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It was March. My letter was dated February, and I received it in March.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's right. We see a lot down there. When I crossed the border this time, I was held up for two and a half hours at the border. And the last time I was sent into immigration also. They have me listed in their computer. They can tell me facts about what I have done with respec

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm being discriminated against because of the circumstances of my birth. Both letters I received stated that as the reason for the denial. It's discriminatory.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  If I had been born two years later, I would be covered by Bill C-37, but I was born in 1945.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We're snowbirds. We're half of the time in B.C. and we spend half the time, the winters, in Arizona.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I can tell you that it's not a convenience. It's my nationality. It represents the right to call Canada my home and to let everybody know that's where I'm from and that I'm proud to be a Canadian. When I'm asked what my citizenship is now, how can I answer? I don't know. I'm not

Citizenship and Immigration committee  That's correct.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you. My name is Jacqueline Ellis Scott, and I am still a lost Canadian. I have been fighting for five years to be able to legally say I'm a Canadian citizen. I was born in England in 1945 to a Canadian serviceman father and a British war bride mother. Mum and I joined m