Am I Canadian/Can I claim citizenship if my Father was Canadian but...

[masmdu]

he moved to the US in the 1950s and became a US citizen? I was born in the mid 1960s in the US but can I claim Canadian citizenship?

Anybody with info about this situation please share it!
TIA

[Callmecrazy]

1. You can claim your Martian if you want.

Why do you feel you are a Canadian citizen if you were born in USA?

[Heddi]

2. go here

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/citizenship/become.asp

[orleans]

3. my guess would be no -- but i don't know for sure n/t

[DFW]

4. Each country has different rules

One of our assistants found out her grandfather left Luxembourg as an infant in March of 1900. This qualifier her to apply for Luxemboug citizenship, and sure enough, she got her Luxembourg passport after about a year of archive searching and paperwork (ALWAYS paperwork). Not that Luxembourg has any great attraction, but it IS part of the EU, which means she can live and work in the EU, which she now does. The paperwork is still punishing, as she has to file a US tax return as well as a tax return in the country where she is now living, but she wants to live here, and as she is not married to an EU citizen like I am, she had no other ticket to stay here until she went through the process. I know that one Irish grandparent used to be enough to get an Irish passport, too. I don't know if this is still the case, although smaller countries tend to be looser about this than bigger ones.