Human Resources committee  Those cases are treated on a priority basis by the department.

Human Resources committee  No. The Bill C-37 under review will not change the equitable treatment between children adopted abroad who take the direct route to citizenship and children born to Canadians abroad.

Human Resources committee  They cannot transfer it because they are both treated equally.

Human Resources committee  The parents have the option, if they're planning to return to Canada to live, of sponsoring the child for permanent residence in Canada. Once the child becomes a permanent resident in Canada there's no waiting period; they can immediately apply for citizenship.

Human Resources committee  There are a couple of other factors in the mix. One is that you can derive Canadian citizenship, from birth, from either of your parents. You have to consider the other parent in the mix. If the other parent in the mix was born or naturalized in Canada, then the child born abroad

Human Resources committee  On the more precise history of the first-generation limit, the intent was to ensure that citizenship couldn't be transmitted to endless generations of Canadians living abroad. In terms of what was behind it, under the previous legislation, before it was changed, there was a conne

Human Resources committee  There are maybe just a couple of points I would like to make. That's one perspective on the issue, certainly. Those are concerns we are aware of at CIC. The other thing to be aware of is that the law does provide for equal treatment, but it's an issue of who the comparator group

Human Resources committee  I'd like to make a couple of comments, and then I'll invite my colleague Mr. Gilbert to add. We're not necessarily aware that there's any particular problem in that regard, but there are a couple of points I'd like to make. One is that adoptees can come through two routes: they

Human Resources committee  I am sorry, what is your question?

Human Resources committee  If the child is born abroad to a Canadian parent who was born or naturalized in Canada, the child is born Canadian, yes.

Human Resources committee  It is under the Citizenship Act.

Human Resources committee  Good morning. I am Nicole Girard from the Department of Citizenship and Immigration. If I understand correctly, that question was raised by some witnesses about the potential future transmission of citizenship to children who are adopted abroad.

Human Resources committee  In fact, the current act gives equal treatment to children born abroad to Canadian parents and children who are adopted abroad by Canadians and acquire citizenship directly. As well, children born in Canada to Canadians and children who are born abroad to Canadian citizens and na

Human Resources committee  That's not quite right. What I was explaining was that the law changed, and when the first-generation limit on citizenship by descent was imposed on April 17, 2009, it continued to minimize the difference in treatment between children born abroad to Canadians and children adopted

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, when Bill C-14 and the first Bill C-37 were going through the process, the department was certainly in contact with different stakeholders, including groups such as the Adoption Council of Canada, to indicate that these pieces of legislation were being put forward for Parli