Can anyone recommend a lawyer well-versed in helping applicants with adopted children?
Dear all,
Thank you for sharing your wisdom here! Our ancestors, including my great-grandparents, are from Quebec. They migrated to the US, where subsequent generations have been born/lived.
We have assembled documents to substantiate our ancestral link to Canada.
Please help me understand the rules for adoptees.
I have four children--two biological and two adopted in the US/from the US. For our adopted children, their birth certificates were changed upon adoption finalization, with my husband and I listed as their parents. (This is the normal process where we are...)
Today, our immigration lawyer told me that our adopted children ARE NOT ELIGIBLE for citizenship, simply because they are adopted.
This seems to conflict with what I have read in this forum.
As I read the "rules" (as a layperson), I understand that
I am assumed to be Canadian from birth and am working to demonstrate and certify Canadian citizenship
Our children are eligible, as long as we can document an "uninterrupted" ancestral line.
There is a different set of documents needed for our adopted daughters, and the process may take longer than the typical citizenship by descent process.
Can anyone recommend a lawyer who has been helpful with cases like this--where the applicant family has clearly documented ancestral links to Canada AND at least one member of the applicant family is adopted (in and from the US)?
Thank you. I am so grateful.