IMPR 101-6
IMPR 101-6
9 null terms
- Citizenship
- Citizenship Act: s.2(1) "means Canadian citizenship"
s.3 Right to Citizenship
s.5 Grant of Citizenship
IRCC: "State-recognized nationality and the duties, rights, responsibilities and privileges that come with it.
- Citizenship Judge
- IRCC: "An independent, quasi-judicial decision maker who makes legal decisions on residency requirements for some adult citizenship applications, administers the oath of Canadian citizenship, and resides over citizenship ceremonies.
Citizenship Act s.2(1) "a citizenship judge appointed under s.26"
- Jus Sanguinis
- Latin. "law relating to blood"
Citizenship based on blood ties. The principle that the nationality of a child is the same as that of their parents, irrespective of their place of birth.
Citizenship Act: s.5(5) Statelessness - Bloodline Connection
- Jus Soli
- Latin: Law relating to the soil (of one's country)
Citizenship based on the land of birth. Principle by which birth in a state is sufficient to confer nationality, irrespective of the nationality of one's parents.
- Multiple Citizenships
- A situation in which a person holds more than one citizenship.
- Naturalization
- IRCC: "the formal process by which a person who is not a Canadian citizen can become a Canadian citizen. The person must usually become a permanent resident first."
Text: the process by which a foreign national, after being admitted to Canada as a permanent resident, applies for and obtains Canadian citizenship.
- Residence in Canada
- The act of living in Canada.
Merriam-Webster: Residence: "the act or fact of dwelling/living in a place for some time"
- Residency Calculator
- CIC: Physical Presence Calculator
Citizenship Act: s.5(1.001): Length of Physical Presence Calculation:
a) for every day during which the person was physically present in Canada as a temporary resident or protected person under IRPA before becoming a permanent resident, the person accumulates half of a day of physical presence, up to a maximum of 365 days; and
b) for every day during which the person has been physically present in Canada since becoming a permanent resident, the person accumulates one day of physical presence.
- Stateless Person
- TEXT: A person who is not recognized by any nation as a citizen and has no residency rights in any country.
UNHCR: "The international legal definition of a stateless person is a person who is not considered as a national by any state under the operation of its law."
- 1954 UN Convention on the Status of Stateless Persons
- 1961 UN Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness