So you think someone should somehow just get citizenship just because they’ve stayed there for long enough? Many countries do not approve of dual citizenship, and so most people would have to give up on their original citizenship to become a Canadian citizen. That’s not something to be taken lightly of. People have relationships in their home country, and they might lose easy access to their home country by forfeiting their citizenship and getting a Canadian one. How they get taxed in their original country also changes, and might also be detrimental to their finances depending on how much business and investment they’re conducting. What about having to take care of family?
And even if they don’t have any of those, you may live in a foreign country for 25 years, but you might not have thought of the new country as home, and that could be the case for various reasons, some of which may be bad ones, but there are good reasons as well.
So, like the other comment said, you’re showing a great lack of empathy, but tbf, you might not be aware of these considerations someone has to think about while deciding whether getting that citizenship is worth it.
as a uk citizen she can have dual citizenship with Canada
she does consider Canada her home
she’s a uk citizen in the uk with a national health service (a slightly more comprehensive health service than Canada as prescription meds are heavily subsidized), any hospital or family doctor would have helped her for free.
I do sympathize for her situation, having anything stolen is bad enough without it happening in a foreign country. But I don’t understand why this is a dire enough story to make it newsworthy. A British citizen, in Britain ran out of meds.
Yes and they are making seem more urgent/desperate because she has run out of her diabetes meds. I’m sure there are a lot of people struggling to deal with government processes each day, this isn’t really news. It all seems to come down to a button on a web page not working as expected.
If she’s not a Canadian citizen yet, then she would had to fly using her British passport, there’s no mention of that being stolen, I’m sure that means she can fly back to Canada. If she can’t for some reason, then the meds issue is easily resolved in Britain.
So you think someone should somehow just get citizenship just because they’ve stayed there for long enough? Many countries do not approve of dual citizenship, and so most people would have to give up on their original citizenship to become a Canadian citizen. That’s not something to be taken lightly of. People have relationships in their home country, and they might lose easy access to their home country by forfeiting their citizenship and getting a Canadian one. How they get taxed in their original country also changes, and might also be detrimental to their finances depending on how much business and investment they’re conducting. What about having to take care of family?
And even if they don’t have any of those, you may live in a foreign country for 25 years, but you might not have thought of the new country as home, and that could be the case for various reasons, some of which may be bad ones, but there are good reasons as well.
So, like the other comment said, you’re showing a great lack of empathy, but tbf, you might not be aware of these considerations someone has to think about while deciding whether getting that citizenship is worth it.
You should also be aware that:
I do sympathize for her situation, having anything stolen is bad enough without it happening in a foreign country. But I don’t understand why this is a dire enough story to make it newsworthy. A British citizen, in Britain ran out of meds.
Isn’t the issue here that she can’t re-enter Canada, and IRCC seems to refuse helping her?
Yes and they are making seem more urgent/desperate because she has run out of her diabetes meds. I’m sure there are a lot of people struggling to deal with government processes each day, this isn’t really news. It all seems to come down to a button on a web page not working as expected.
If she’s not a Canadian citizen yet, then she would had to fly using her British passport, there’s no mention of that being stolen, I’m sure that means she can fly back to Canada. If she can’t for some reason, then the meds issue is easily resolved in Britain.