Article Summary - Canada’s new citizenship law, Bill C-3, scraps the “second-generation cut-off” that blocked many Canadians born abroad from passing citizenship to their own overseas-born children.

The Trump administration has been routinely targeting legal pathways to citizenship, including giving officials broader discretion to deny naturalization on vague grounds such as “anti-American” views ...

Canada welcomes more than 430,000 new permanent residents every year, and many of them eventually go on to become citizens after completing the required period of residency.