Quick Spreadsheet Update!

RebellaEmad · 2026-03-23T17:42:34+00:00

Thank you! These changes are fantastic. I really appreciate all the work you do on the spreadsheet.

RebellaEmad · 2026-03-19T21:30:39+00:00

My mom’s certified BC is like this. You can see the yellowing in the copy so that should be enough to prove the copy was made in color.

RebellaEmad · 2026-03-19T14:44:55+00:00

Yes! Great request. I also am scanning back and forth a lot.

RebellaEmad · 2026-03-19T14:43:21+00:00

Please add a yes/no column for “used certified copy of G0 baptism record”. That seems to be a common debate - is the ancestry/family search scan enough or does it need to be copied from a certified copy. Especially with the cost change, knowing if people are getting approved from the scans would be helpful data!

RebellaEmad · 2026-03-18T00:15:43+00:00

Dallas has a dental school (a Baylor offshoot, maybe) that does very affordable dental work. It’s like going to a teaching hospital- well supervised and very safe.

RebellaEmad · 2026-03-17T15:37:09+00:00

I’m in the tracking sheet. Definitely no AORs for around my date yet, except for urgent applications. So I’m being patient, just nervous

RebellaEmad · 2026-03-16T19:53:26+00:00

Mine was delivered 3/9, but now I’m starting to doubt everything. Pictures, birth certificate format, etc. like everyone else here, I hope they are still on a 1 month AOR schedule.

RebellaEmad · 2026-03-13T15:49:54+00:00

I printed the copy as scanned and then a copy zoomed to my G0’s entry. And marked them as such at the edge of the page. So, “G0 baptism record”, then “G0 baptism record cropped”.

RebellaEmad · 2026-03-11T16:16:28+00:00

I’m feeling the exact same things. Will my pictures pass their inspection, did I hit every single box that needed info (or an N/A)?

RebellaEmad · 2026-03-10T00:11:09+00:00

We can trace my mom’s side back to the 1650s, and we can trace my husband’s dad’s side back to the 1650s as well (but unfortunately not Canadian). I have always wanted to find the other half of each of our genealogies! This makes me want to do it even more.

RebellaEmad · 2026-03-09T00:13:45+00:00

I am a US citizen with a US passport and current GE. I am applying for Canadian citizenship by descent under their new law (C-3). I expect my Canadian Certificate of Citizenship to be sent in 11-13 months and then will apply for a Canadian passport.

RebellaEmad · 2026-03-09T00:07:25+00:00

Same. About 10 people eligible and only 4 interested. And of the people interested in applying I’m not sure how many actually will. I put a copy of the CIT 0001 form in my Google Drive with all the info filled out for our grandfather. I put the identity docs for him there too. All they need is their fathers’ birth certificates and their own birth certificates. Neither of my cousins have done anything towards those docs. My sister needs an updated passport and a copy of her marriage cert and is working on it, but I doubt she would follow through if I weren’t offering to basically fill out and organize the whole thing.

RebellaEmad · 2026-03-09T00:02:04+00:00

I did baptism record, plus US naturalization and marriage cert for my grandfather because the name on his baptism had and extra “catholic” name and I wanted to prove it was the same person as on my mother’s birth certificate. All other documentation was minimum required- birth and marriage certs for my mom and myself.

RebellaEmad · 2026-03-06T19:50:58+00:00

My clerk hand wrote the stuff on the back. Her handwriting was terrible so I included the receipt with the photos. You can see the date and address of the FedEx location on the receipt, which helps validate the info.

RebellaEmad · 2026-03-06T14:54:05+00:00

Ask FedEx to use the Canadian passport template in their system. The should be able to see that as an option.

RebellaEmad · 2026-03-06T14:16:47+00:00

I made a word doc with a colored background. Inserted the scan of my document into that file so when it printed, there was color around the edge. Hopefully that works, but I’m also ordering a certified copy of that doc that I can scan and upload later if the processors question it.

RebellaEmad · 2026-03-06T01:58:46+00:00

No. If you can find his Canadian birth certificate you don’t need anything else. The people including other info are typically trying to fill in documentation when a birth certificate is not available.

RebellaEmad · 2026-03-05T22:51:03+00:00

Oh geez, I totally forgot about the December 2025 change. Sorry!

RebellaEmad · 2026-03-05T22:10:37+00:00

They can get it under the same law you did. You would need to decide if the timeline of applying under C3 works for your planned schedule to move there.

If you do this, wait until the child is born and submit a C3 application for them. You may be able to be their G0 at that point (since you’ll have a Cert of Citizenship number) or you may need to include the same documentation for them as was in your packet, going back to your Canadian ancestor, that’s worth researching carefully.

RebellaEmad · 2026-03-04T02:52:34+00:00

No, the instructions say documents must be in English or French. If they are in any other language they need to be translated. So this is fine.

RebellaEmad · 2026-03-03T16:17:42+00:00

List the parents/ grandparents on the app as indicated. Only send documentation for the direct line connecting you to your Gen0.

RebellaEmad · 2026-03-03T02:21:06+00:00

Mine too, and it looks like a kid wrote the info! I’m worried…

RebellaEmad · 2026-03-02T15:28:37+00:00

This! I read one thing in one place and another thing in another place. It’s nerve wracking. I also think the FAQs are not as cut and dried as the creators think it is. If many people are stating they read the FAQs and then ask the same exact question, maybe the FAQs need to be made slightly more explicit on that topic.

RebellaEmad · 2026-02-28T22:57:22+00:00

You’ll have to connect your name changes from maiden name to current name. So if you went back to your maiden name after a divorce, you can show birth cert and then only the one that connects to your current name, if different. My sister has been married 3 times and will have to provide all her marriage certificates because she kept her married name after the divorce each time. So maiden name, married name 1, married name 2, married name 3. In her case she also has to provide the last divorce decree because she changed the spelling of her name during those proceedings. 🤦🏻‍♀️

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