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From: Olive <>
Subject: Re: [WarBrides] Appearance before Citizenship Hearings in Canada
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 13:42:48 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
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I have never had any problems with passports.
I sent away for Citizenship proof in the 1950's.
They sent me a certificate to frame and a paper to use for passport
services.
It's my understanding we were all made Citizens on 1 January,1947.
Olive King

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Date: April 21, 2005 12:45:44 PM
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Subject: [WarBrides] Appearance before Citizenship Hearings in Canada

This just hot off the presses....
Melynda
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April 21, 2005 - 13:07

War brides spokeswoman complains to committee about citizenship status

FREDERICTON (CP) - Thousands of war brides and their children are
discovering they are not Canadian citizens even though some had assumed
otherwise while living in Canada for 60 years, a Commons committee was told
Thursday.

Melynda Jarratt, an author and researcher, told the committee that the
federal government created a bureaucratic nightmare in 1944 by declaring
them landed immigrants instead of citizens. She said many of these women and

their children were unaware of their status until now.


Some made the discovery when they applied for passports.

"You've paid your taxes, you have a social insurance number, you've worked
here and lived here all your life, but you're not a citizen," she told the
committee.

"Who made the decision that they were no longer citizens and suddenly became

landed immigrants, and how come they've never been told about what their
rights are?"

Liberal MP Andrew Telegdi, chairman the Standing Committee on Citizenship
and Immigration, said he understood the frustration of people who suddenly
find themselves without the rights and privileges of full citizenship
through no fault of their own.

"It's a real horror story," said Telegdi. "It's a horrific feeling because
all of a sudden you become stateless."

Telegdi said the committee will recommend the government should declare the
war brides and their children citizens, and he's hoping the issue can be
resolved by this fall.



Melynda Jarratt, BA, MA (History)
Diploma in Digital Media and Design
Webmaster: http://www.canadianwarbrides.com and http://www.project-roots.com
Voices of the Left Behind: Project Roots and the Canadian War Children of
World War Two is available in English at
http://www.project-roots.com/books.html and in Dutch at
http://www.uitgeverijpica.nl/index.html?page=achterbleven

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