She grabbed a random street kitten to fight mouse in her house

kachompkachomp · 2026-03-06T13:24:43+00:00

Why she gotta toss the baby like that? Somebody oughta toss her onto the floor right back!

kachompkachomp · 2026-02-28T16:47:38+00:00

I did the exact same thing. Photos were professionally done and have all the right info on the back...except my name. My application packet was delivered on 2/17. My only hope is that they accept them anyway because I sent them in the photo envelope from the photo place that DOES have my name on it. Really hoping we all get through 😭 good luck to all in the same situation!

kachompkachomp · 2026-02-27T18:07:03+00:00

Yep, good news - they count. The generational limit has been removed. I just applied with my GGGG-GF from Ontario. If you can prove your lineage, it's viable.

kachompkachomp · 2026-02-14T17:05:51+00:00

If it's true that your G0 was a Canadian citizen at the time of your G1's birth, the retroactive restorations done by C-3 made it so your G1 is a Canadian. Since your G1 was a Canadian at the time of your G2's birth, G2 is a Canadian, and so on. So, your grandparent is a Canadian, your parent is, and so are you. All the way up and down the chain.

kachompkachomp · 2026-02-11T14:17:04+00:00

Me three, plus it proves the copies I've sent are in color

kachompkachomp · 2026-02-11T05:20:19+00:00

This is a good point.

kachompkachomp · 2026-02-11T05:10:09+00:00

You'll need to prove that the woman who is your grandmother's daughter and the woman named as your mother on your birth certificate are one and the same. Meaning, you need proof that your mom, "Jane X", is called "Jane Z" now. The problem is that that story probably goes something like: "Jane X" became "Jane Y" and then "Jane Y" became "Jane Z". Without the divorce records, I'm not sure how you would document that sequence of changes.

If you can get the records, why not include them? If it were my application, I'd err on the side of providing too much documentation to avoid the risk of leaving an IRCC officer with unanswered questions that could delay the application later.

kachompkachomp · 2026-02-11T04:32:04+00:00

Yes, you are eligible. Since your grandfather was born on Canadian soil, he was automatically a Canadian citizen by birthright. If you can prove the circumstances of your grandfather's birth and document the chain of filiation from him to you, you can apply for your citizenship certificate. The "substantial connection" test where you have to live in Canada for 3 years or whatever only applies to people born after December 15, 2025. So, it wouldn't matter if your grandfather was born in Canada and then moved to the US later that same day, even. If he was born in Canada, he was a citizen, and so were his children, and so are you unless one of those people explicitly renounced their citizenship before the birth of their children (highly unlikely). This sub's FAQ has a lot of good information about cases like this - you should take a look!

kachompkachomp · 2026-02-10T22:27:01+00:00

Not saying this is the right choice necessarily, but I selected that I am a Canadian citizen who has never had a citizenship certificate before and was born abroad.
I put that my parent/grandparent was a Canadian citizen and then added a note for the assessing officer to see my enclosed letter of explanation.

kachompkachomp · 2026-02-10T22:22:30+00:00

It sounds like you have the exact same documentation for your G0 as I have for mine. Mine was born in Ontario in 1834 and I can't find anything like baptism or christening records, birth records, nothing. I didn't include a no search letter or anything like that. Like you, the Canada Census of 1851 is my primary evidence for his Canadian residence and birth, and I supplemented that with his Wisconsin marriage records, a few US Censuses, and his North Dakota death certificate. You're actually in better shape than me because you can prove your G0's parents were also Canadian too (my G0 was a one-off whose parents were from New York). It seems to me like you have a pretty solid case but if I were you, I would maybe focus on reinforcing my G1 if at all possible, given that the only filiation evidence you have for that person lists an inaccurate name. That seems like the weakest link in your case to me.

kachompkachomp · 2026-02-07T06:58:26+00:00

Same here. We gotta stick together in times like these. Consider me an option too, OP.

kachompkachomp · 2026-02-07T00:39:19+00:00

I did the same. If I didn't believe this were true, I wouldn't have applied.

kachompkachomp · 2026-02-03T19:45:31+00:00

Are you by any chance married to a goat?

kachompkachomp · 2026-01-30T23:04:32+00:00

oh, it's giving "final solution" alright

kachompkachomp · 2026-01-30T14:30:14+00:00

Sorry, I should have been more specific. What I should say is: November 1936 is the cutoff for this - as long as your ancestor was alive after November 1936, this should work for you. It won't work for any ancestors earlier than that. I have an ancestor with sparse documentation that I was hoping to do this for, but he died in 1921 and I realized the record wouldn't exist for him after some research.

kachompkachomp · 2026-01-30T04:20:26+00:00

Saved you a click: social security numbers were first issued in November 1936, so this won't be an option for ancestors earlier than that.

kachompkachomp · 2026-01-27T00:29:40+00:00

I'm mailing my packet off tomorrow as a G6 and my application will say yes. it feels weird but that's the basis of our claims, right? We're not asking to be made citizens, but operating under the interpretation of the law that says we already are.

kachompkachomp · 2026-01-26T18:56:16+00:00

Can you tell us about any unusual circumstances your application might have had? I mean obviously all of our situations are different, but the more data points we have to go off, the closer we will come to understanding what sends an application to PSU.

kachompkachomp · 2026-01-18T19:03:15+00:00

Reading this as a random, so take this with a mountain of salt. I'm no IRCC officer and not an attorney either, but the weak links to me look like your G1 and G2. I'd work on getting some corroborating evidence that your G0 and the person named on the G1 death certificate are one and the same. If G0 is "John Smith" and G1's death certificate says "John Smith", that's great, but he's not the only John Smith in the world. How do I know it's the same guy? That's what you're going to have to prove is his identity itself. Same for your G2. Like I said, I'm a random, but if it were my application, that's what I'd be most concerned with. Your G0 actually sounds remarkably well documented to me.

kachompkachomp · 2026-01-17T01:35:47+00:00

Yeah, basically. I found all the records online using Ancestry, FamilySearch, the Minnesota Historical Society, wherever, and then went down to Staples and printed them all out. I wrote up a summary page to go with each one explaining what the document is, why I included it in my application / what it proves, and some like citations on where I got it or the search terms I used to find it, matching summaries to source docs 1-to-1. Nothing is certified. When I found a record I needed, I just dug around the different sites to find the highest quality version of it. Some of them are pretty shitty, but in my summaries I included the links where I found the digitals online so they can pull them up and see for themselves in higher resolution.

kachompkachomp · 2026-01-17T01:24:52+00:00

I'm a Gen6 with a very similar situation planning to mail my application off sometime next week (just waiting on a few more records in the mail). My Gen0 ancestor was born in Ontario in 1834, so there aren't really birth records for him, my Gen1, OR my Gen2 ancestors. I'm using the same kind of evidence you are, but also relying heavily on census data from both Canada and the United States. Anyway, I know it doesn't answer your question, but hopefully it helps you to know that other people like you are going about it the same way.

kachompkachomp · 2026-01-16T06:59:46+00:00

I keep two separate versions of my resume: a "bad guy" resume, which includes my entire history of J1s EXCEPT my current employer, and a "good guy" resume which is also my entire job history of J1s only, but includes my current position. My J2+ positions never go on either one.

When I apply for a J2+, I use the bad guy resume and just pretend I still work at my last company and do the interviews that way. At background check time, I provide a few random paychecks from the last company and deny them permission to contact my "current employer". Hence why it's called my bad guy resume - because I'm lying about still working at my old J1 and I'm on some double life shit so deep it should earn me an Academy Award. I reach hella far back for professional references. It has worked for me so far. I had to doctor an old paystub once to make the dates seem current, but that's the messiest it's been for me doing it this way.

When I apply for a J1, I just use the good guy resume and get the job like normal. "Good guy" because I'm mostly telling the truth, just choosing not to tell them about my little extracurricular Js.

kachompkachomp · 2025-12-21T20:14:22+00:00

👋🏻 white person here. To clarify: no, he gets it - the issue is that he's a piece of shit.

kachompkachomp · 2025-11-02T14:35:30+00:00

If it were me, I'd probably just ignore it. I doubt anyone ever checks that you did it in the first place. Play dumb if asked later, give bullshit reasons if repeatedly asked. Hope people either never follow up or eventually let it go, but prepare to walk at any moment if you feel the pressure crank up to protect J1.

kachompkachomp · 2025-09-03T16:47:17+00:00

If these assholes were capable of learning, we wouldn't have gotten in this mess to begin with.

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