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  • Irenes (many)ireneista@irenes.space
    May 12, 2026, 8:16 AM

    @AnotherJen we're crying. this is going to save lives. we didn't seriously expect this kind of help.

    (it doesn't affect us personally but it will affect our community, you know?)

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  • Skeery, ikr?╭ರ_ಠianrogers@mstdn.social
    May 12, 2026, 11:31 AM

    @AnotherJen I don't know how I feel about my country being a "backup plan" but I am super glad that the feds are processing trans folks as urgent because, well, it is.

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  • Alicjaoddtail@meow.social
    May 12, 2026, 12:36 PM

    @AnotherJen

    A government actually doing something to help transgender people?

    Holy crap I'm actually tearing up.

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  • Billw_b@mastodon.world
    May 12, 2026, 12:45 PM

    @AnotherJen

    My uncle had been into genealogy and there's no Canadian ancestors in my past.

    Bummer. I'd be willing to learn O Canada in French and English. I already can say aboot and eh. :)

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  • WesDymwesdym@mastodon.social
    May 12, 2026, 1:43 PM

    @AnotherJen Sadly, I apparently have zero Canadian ancestry. We have NON-ancestral relatives who became Canadian, but none who are ancestors.

    Canada needs to revise its asylum rules, because the ones they have now were adopted in 2002, before the current dangerous insanity going on in the US.

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  • ThatGenieProblemThatGenieProblem@dragon.style
    May 12, 2026, 4:09 PM

    @AnotherJen

    Just noting that in order to benefit for expedited treatment you have to ask for it expressly by explaining your situation.

    Just in case it can help someone!

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  • Mystery Babylonvalentine@flickering.style
    May 12, 2026, 4:31 PM

    @AnotherJen This is factual, one of my friends here in Virginia is finalizing arrangements of this for his trans son right now. It's such a relief to everybody. He is heading up there this summer and starting college.

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  • John Mark OckerbloomJMarkOckerbloom@mastodon.social
    May 12, 2026, 5:55 PM

    @Perrin42 @AnotherJen AFAIK, great-great-grandparent Canadian citizenship also qualifies you (there's no three-generation limit) but it may be more of a challenge to demonstrate eligibility through longer ancestry lines.

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  • Michael Buschmichael_w_busch@mastodon.online
    May 12, 2026, 6:24 PM

    @JMarkOckerbloom @Perrin42 @AnotherJen

    I am aware of someone who has put in an application to get her Canadian citizenship recognized via her great-greats.

    This required finding scans of handwritten mid-1800s birth, marriage, and death records from small towns along the border.

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  • ferricoxide@blahaj.zone
    May 12, 2026, 6:13 PM

    @AnotherJen@mindly.social

    Sadly, my non-US lineage is German, Scottish and Welsh (in decending order) and my most-recent non-US relatives were in the second half of the 1800s. So, no blood-granted escape-hatches for me.

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  • AstroMancer5G (she/her)AstroMancer5G@spore.social
    May 12, 2026, 8:14 PM

    @AnotherJen
    I have an ancestor who ran away and joined the Canadian military during WWI before the US entered. He wasn't a Canadian citizen, though, and he was a minor at the time.

    I obviously don't agree with his decision, but I still kind of hope that Canada will extend citizenship to descendants of military members.

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  • BeachbumBeachbum@mastodon.sdf.org
    May 12, 2026, 9:17 PM

    @AnotherJen We are going to get our UK citizenship because my husband’s mother came from Wales as a war bride. Then we can go to one of the British islands closer to where we hail from.

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  • Jyrgen Njyrgenn@mas.to
    May 12, 2026, 9:34 PM

    @AnotherJen This is not the first move Canada has made in this direction, and I must say, Canada is really starting to grow on me. Chapeau! We (likeminded people, not me in particular) bow in respect and gratitude. I have to admit I am getting a bit misty-eyed about this.

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  • Allpointsallpoints@mstdn.social
    May 13, 2026, 1:01 PM

    @AnotherJen I've lived a reasonable amount of time and I would have never expected it fall to Canada to help folks from the south escape a repressive regime.

    #USpol

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  • QuARC v0.21quarc@booping.synth.download
    May 14, 2026, 12:51 AM

    @AnotherJen@mindly.social v21
    (edit (statement "okay, according to the other replies, IRCC is actually doing it, so ignore what I said below lol")
    (opinion "consider me surprised though"))
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    (opinion "the CIC news article's headline is quite misleading, it seems to be reading between the lines in the stuff IRCC publishes rather than an actual official policy")
    (opinion "given the federal government's sudden anti-immigration pivot a few years ago, and the fact that the government continues to consider the US a safe third country (iirc), I have no reason to believe that IRCC would actually expedite processing for Americans")

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  • Carina C. Zonacczona@hachyderm.io
    May 14, 2026, 8:15 AM

    @AnotherJen

    > Canada is moving citizenship applications from transgender USians to the top of the queue.

    That is...a distorted understanding.

    Canada allows applicants for citizenship by descent to optionally apply for urgent processing. Persecution for being trans is one of several bases of eligibility for urgent processing. But there is no evidence, in the article or elsewhere, that Canada puts trans applicants -- let alone the trans applicants who are specifically from the US -- at the top of the queue, which would be ahead of other applicants globally who meet one of the other criteria for urgency.

    Canada is being very inclusive here, and I'm proud of them. Any trans person with Canadian ancestry who is unsafe in their own country should be looking into Canadian citizenship by descent. I just don't want a false narrative to promulgate. There is no priority queue for _American trans_ people, there is however a priority queue for all the people who document urgent need for Canadian citizenship recognition due to any of these specific eligible reasons:

    ircc.canada.ca/english/helpcen

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