Canada to amend citizenship law; likely to benefit Indian-origin families

OTTAWA: Canada has taken a significant step toward modernising its citizenship-by-descent framework, with Bill C-3 receiving royal assent and moving closer to implementation.

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The amendment to the Citizenship Act, announced by the federal government recently, is expected to impact thousands of Indian-origin families as well as others affected by earlier limits.

The bill, formally titled An Act to amend the Citizenship Act (2025), marks what the government described in its release as “an important milestone in making the Citizenship Act more inclusive, while maintaining the value of Canadian citizenship.” Once it comes into effect, the legislation will retroactively grant citizenship to individuals born before the bill takes force who would have been eligible if not for the first-generation limit or other parts of earlier legislation.