🇨🇦 U.S. applications for Canadian citizenship surge, causing delays

Americans are flooding the citizenship queue—14,000 new applicants and counting—exploiting freshly liberalized ancestry rules that let anyone with a Canadian great-grandparent claim citizenship. Wait times have ballooned to a year. Three million New Englanders alone may now qualify based on emigration patterns from a century ago. Ottawa changed the law in late 2025, and suddenly dual citizenship became a backdoor entry ticket for Americans hedging their bets or hunting cheaper healthcare.

This isn't nation-building. It's bureaucratic giveaway dressed as ancestry recognition. Genuine applicants already in Canada get shoved aside while distant descendants with zero connection to this country waltz in on genealogy websites and a passport application. Sovereignty sold for sentimentality and processing fees.

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