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igotthisguitar
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Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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 Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 10:32 pm Post subject: Passport Applicants Find They're Not Canadian |
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Passport Applicants Find They're Not Canadian
Tue Jan 23, 6:04 PM
CALGARY (CBC) - Hundreds of people are suddenly discovering that they are not Canadians as new laws requiring travellers to have a passport to fly to the U.S. go into effect Tuesday, CBC's investigative unit has learned.
Many applying for a Canadian passport have been informed their chance to remain a citizen expired years ago because of an obscure provision in the Citizenship Act, a little-known law that applied between 1947 and 1977.
The law states that if you lived outside Canada on your 24th birthday and failed to sign the "right" form, you automatically lost your citizenship ... 
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http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/23012007/3/canada-passport-applicants-find-re-canadian.html |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 5:44 am Post subject: |
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| C'est vraiment incroyable et stupide. It reminds me when a former prime minister disenfranchised certain Euro-Canadians because they would have voted for the other fellow. I just remember he was pro-British and he felt that those would be voters would oppose certain war plans. This citizenship law that the article act is very stupid, cruel, and makes no sense. |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 6:19 am Post subject: Re: Passport Applicants Find They're Not Canadian |
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| igotthisguitar wrote: |
Passport Applicants Find They're Not Canadian
Tue Jan 23, 6:04 PM
CALGARY (CBC) - Hundreds of people are suddenly discovering that they are not Canadians as new laws requiring travellers to have a passport to fly to the U.S. go into effect Tuesday, CBC's investigative unit has learned.
Many applying for a Canadian passport have been informed their chance to remain a citizen expired years ago because of an obscure provision in the Citizenship Act, a little-known law that applied between 1947 and 1977.
The law states that if you lived outside Canada on your 24th birthday and failed to sign the "right" form, you automatically lost your citizenship ...
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http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/23012007/3/canada-passport-applicants-find-re-canadian.html |
Ha ha, you're slow:
http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?t=76615
For that I'm revoking your citizenship. |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 6:20 am Post subject: Re: Passport Applicants Find They're Not Canadian |
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 Touche. |
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sundubuman
Joined: 04 Feb 2003
Location: seoul
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| Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 6:57 am Post subject: |
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When I applied for my passport, I found out that I too was not Canadian..
didn't bother me too much though.... |
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Kimchi Cowboy
Joined: 17 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 7:18 am Post subject: |
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| Would these people not, then, be owed a shit-load of refunded tax money? |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Kimchi Cowboy wrote: |
| Would these people not, then, be owed a *beep*-load of refunded tax money? |
Hell yeah. Id sue the government for my tax money plus other things and move to a better country.
Infact Im sure there must be a lawyer who would get these people together for one hell of a huge class action suit. I hope they win too. |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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| Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 11:31 pm Post subject: |
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Relax.
Read the last few paragraphs.
These people are going to get special fast-track treatment when it comes to submitting a claim for citizenship...something the OP convienently forgot to mention. |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 7:03 am Post subject: |
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| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
Relax.
Read the last few paragraphs.
These people are going to get special fast-track treatment when it comes to submitting a claim for citizenship...something the OP convienently forgot to mention. |
Yes, it was fast tracked from three years to "just" eight months if I remember correctly. That's pretty fast. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 11:01 pm Post subject: |
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| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
Relax.
Read the last few paragraphs.
These people are going to get special fast-track treatment when it comes to submitting a claim for citizenship...something the OP convienently forgot to mention. |
Yeah, but what if they would rather have their taxes back? 30 years of taxes could easily amount to over 500 000$. |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 12:14 am Post subject: |
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| mithridates wrote: |
| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
Relax.
Read the last few paragraphs.
These people are going to get special fast-track treatment when it comes to submitting a claim for citizenship...something the OP convienently forgot to mention. |
Yes, it was fast tracked from three years to "just" eight months if I remember correctly. That's pretty fast. |
As anyone who has had experience with Canadian bureaucracy can tell you that is not only pretty fast but blindingly fast. |
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