On December 15 2025, Bill C-3, an Act to Amend the Citizenship Act, came into effect. Prior to this change, Canadian citizenship by descent was limited to the first generation of people born or adopted abroad, a limit which was in place from 2009 to 2015. As a result of these recent changes to remove this limit, there has been a dramatic increase in related applications. Here are some answers to common questions we have come across lately.