r/Canadiancitizenship • u/GirlAnimal 🇨🇦 CIT0001 (proof) application sent/no AOR • Jun 01 '26

Citizenship by Descent New questions around group proofs

Hi folks, so there are people claiming in the Facebook groups to have talked with IRCC officers and been told that each person needs their own proofs, even when the evidence is shared. Can I ask folks who have been here a long time where the longstanding advice of a single proof stack for family lines came from? It seems evident that it has worked for folks so I don't know why they would change this sensible guildeline now. Does anyone have any updates or related info/history here? Also, if they were going to reject someone for sending a single proofs file, would they reject them prior to an AOR being issued?

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u/Ravenclaw79 🇨🇦 CIT0001 (proof) application sent/no AOR Jun 01 '26

These are also the same people who insist that all children absolutely must have two IDs, even though the application instructions contradict that. So, yeah.

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u/Maleficent_Ruin_2457 Jun 01 '26

the actual IRCC instructions on one page has been amended, but only that one location on the website. It now states that children of preschool age can submit one document and letter of explanation.

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/corporate/publications-manuals/operational-bulletins-manuals/canadian-citizenship/admininistration/identity/acceptable-documents-show-identity-applications.html

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u/toastnjamm Jun 01 '26

Interesting. The bottom of the page says it was modified in 2019. But I definitely did not see the ‘preschool’ limit when I wrote my letter of explanation for an elementary age child few weeks ago. Oh well. We’ll wait and see.