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Lost Canadians: IRCC reverses Bill C-3 citizenship certificate surrender orders

By Colin R. Singer ( June 25, 2026, 11:14 AM EDT) -- In one of the fastest reversals in recent memory, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has begun walking back the “surrender letters” it sent to Lost Canadians days earlier — telling many of the people ordered to hand back their Bill C-3 (An Act to amend the Citizenship Act (2025)) citizenship certificates that they can keep them after all....

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