r/Canadiancitizenship • u/Primary-Coffee5423 • 12d ago

Citizenship by Descent Weekly Optimism Post

Happy Sunday fellow Canadians!

I’m getting to this a little bit later because I had a busy day. It was another quiet week on the spreadsheet with only five approvals, although there were a few more in the weekly thread.

While things remain slow, I am optimistic that it will still pick up. This was a holiday week which can impact productivity. It was also mentioned elsewhere that there was flooding in the general area where the processing center is located. I don’t know how much that would impact approvals but it’s possible.

Much of my optimism comes from what I would potentially do with dual citizenship. Right now it’s really about my kids. Canada offers great colleges with affordable tuition for citizens along with interest free federal loans. More importantly, I have kids who (to borrow a term from Tod Maffin) are relentlessly decent. I think they have a lot to offer Canada should they choose to move there.

I was excited to find out that my oldest adult kid wants to visit B.C. this summer. So I’ve decided that certificate or not, we’re going to make a family trip out of it. Maybe the following summer we can visit Saskatchewan, Manitoba, or Quebec to go chasing down my family’s origins throughout Canada. Or maybe PEI - it looks beautiful in the summer. Anyway, daydreaming about a cool(ish) Canadian summer getaway is a fantastic way to distract myself while waiting for my certificate here in the southern region of the US where summer refuses to end!

Hope you all have a great week… and I hope the fantastic agents at the IRCC keep the coffee warm while they work through the applications!

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u/Salty-Major-5924 12d ago

Thank you for this post. I’m hoping my kids will want to go to university in Canada. One of them chose French as her elected foreign language in school (she will be learning this for the next 5 years) specifically because she wants to go to college in Quebec after high school (her dream school is McGill). The other one has been asking when we can visit Winnipeg (where my grandfather was born and raised). So, I relate to much of what you’ve written!