NRC: Iedereen met een Canadese voorouder kan nu staatsburgerschap aanvragen – vooral Amerikanen doen dat
July 6, 2026

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A shift in Canadian citizenship rules is drawing significant interest from people tracing their ancestry. In an article published in NRC, Partner Rick Lamanna discussed how the change could impact hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of potential applicants and noted that Canada is moving against a broader global trend of tightening citizenship laws. He also pointed to how this creates an alternative route outside Canada’s standard immigration system.
Read more here (please note the article is published in Dutch).

