DH was born in 1947 to a British mother and a Canadian sailor. In Britain.
After about 55 years, and voting in every election, and even running for office a couple of times, he learned he was not a citizen.
It took over a year including letters from his parents, who fortunately were still alive, copies of not just his birth papers, but of his father's birth certificate and copies of his great -grandfather's papers to prove that he was not some toffee nosed immigrant, but from United Empire Loyalist stock in Canada since 1784.
He swears the only saving grace in the whole saga was that his case in Quebec was being handled by a public servant who was himself an immigrant from Algeria and able to understand that important papers get lost all the time, especially if families are moving every two years.
Then there is my QC-born girlfriend who keeps being told she has to produce her baptismal certificate to deal with that government. She's Jewish.
