Most of us don’t think too hard about where our grandparents came from, but for millions of Americans and tens of thousands of Michiganders, that family history could be worth a second passport.
Last December, a major update to Canada’s citizenship law went into effect. A new bill tears down a wall that blocked citizenship from passing down through multiple generations.
If your grandparents were born in Canada, you could already be a Canadian citizen and not even know it. And this is not some loophole. This is a retroactive legal correction. Canada’s courts agreed that the old rules were unconstitutional. This new law fixes that. If you qualify, you are already a citizen -- you just need to apply for proof.
Drew Porter with Porter Migration Law, a firm based in Ontario that’s also licensed here in Michigan, focusing exclusively on U.S. and Canadian citizenship and immigration law, joined Local 4 Live to help break down the law and explain who qualifies.
You can watch the full interview in the video at the beginning of this article.