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EdmondDantes_

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1. I will be applying for this sometime this year

Sun Mar 1, 2026, 04:54 PM

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My maternal grandmother was Canadian and my mom got citizenship a year ago retroactive so I should be good. Apparently it's about a year backlog and probably going to get longer due to this.

One quirk, my mom used her Canadian passport and when she was coming back had to use her American passport to avoid having some six month trigger because the US system couldn't handle a dual citizen.

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