on September 28, 2015 in World News
Woman, 99, denied citizenship despite living in Canada since 1933
Woman, 99, denied citizenship despite living in Canada since 1933 Citizenship and Immigration doesn’t know or understand its own rules, says critic By Rosa Marchitelli, CBC News A 99-year-old woman is going public after she was denied Canadian citizenship and a health card despite living in Canada for more than 80 years. CBC News investigates Joan Stirling’s application was rejected by Citizenship and Immigration Canada because she couldn’t produce a specific piece of identification — her birth certificate from almost a century ago. Her friend, Diana Watson, has been fighting since 2012 to get Stirling recognized as a Canadian citizen, in… View Article
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