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C-274 — An Act to amend the Citizenship Act and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act
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C-274
An Act to amend the Citizenship Act and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act
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BILL C-274
An Act to amend the Citizenship Act and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act
Last activity : Outside the Order of Precedence
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In progress
Commons · 1st2026-04-20Commons · 2ndCommons · 3rdSenate · 1stSenate · 2ndSenate · 3rdRoyal assent
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What it does, in plain language
- Creates a new path to Canadian citizenship for people who were not citizens when they aged out of child welfare care or foster care.
- Covers people who lived in an institution (including psychiatric or addiction treatment facilities), a group foster home, a foster parent's or guardian's home, or who received living-condition services from a provincial child protection agency.
- Requires the person to have been ordinarily resident in Canada when that care ended and not to have been returned to a parent's custody, unless the return happened within 365 days of turning 18.
- Sets these thresholds: at least 365 cumulative days in care, at least 1,095 days of physical presence in Canada before applying, and no more than 10 years living outside Canada since age 18.
- Accepts the applicant's written statement as proof they were in care, unless the Minister finds on a balance of probabilities that it was not the case.
- Allows the Minister to waive any of these requirements on compassionate grounds after reviewing the person's circumstances.
- Blocks enforcement of a removal order until a final decision is made on the application, and voids an unenforced removal order once citizenship is granted.
- Allows regulations setting out the factors to consider and when review of an application is suspended.
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