Canada is already returning citizenship certificates it demanded days ago from lost Canadians
Some of the new Canadians asked to surrender their citizenship certificates last week have already been told they can keep them, in a quick reversal by Canada’s citizenship department.
Less than a week after the federal government asked flagged applicants to hand back their certificates for review, it has begun reversing those requests, issuing “revalidation letters” confirming the entitlement to and reactivation of the certificates.
Multiple Canadians who have been issued these revalidation letters report not submitting any additional evidence to the citizenship department since receiving their surrender letters—suggesting that the government moved to review their file with information already submitted.
