450 ‘Canadians’ find out they’re not
January 25, 2007
Little-known 1977 law requires some born abroad to reregister as citizens
January 25, 2007
Thulasi Srikanthan
Staff Reporter
A little-known legal loophole has left hundreds of Canadians without their citizenship.
Citizenship and Immigration Canada yesterday identified 450 recent cases where people have come to apply for a new passport or renewal of an expired one and found out their citizenship is not valid.
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8 months in terminal limbo
January 25, 2007
Lacking papers, a family fleeing persecution can’t be forced back to Iran, but now finds that there’s nowhere to go
January 25, 2007
Nicholas Keung
IMMIGRATION/DIVERSITY REPORTER
An Iranian woman and her two children have been stranded in a Moscow airport for more than eight months while en route to seek asylum in Canada to be united with her brother, her only overseas relative.
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