Here are some key links

• Document Checklist: Application for a Citizenship Certificate (Proof of Citizenship) [CIT 0014] (PDF, 314 KB) - Start here

• Guide for Paper Applications for a Citizenship Certificate for Adults and Minors... - You'll need this to follow along with that 👆🏼

• Citizenship Photo Specifications - They're known to be a little "fussy" about it.

• FamilySearch.org - Figuring out when and where your grandparents were born can be hard work. Why not let the Mormons do it?? (Oh, and have fun!)

• eHealth Saskatchewan  - If your progenitors called Saskatchewan home (particularly if they were born there) this is where you would go to request birth records to help substantiate your lineage. Don't be afraid to give them a call if you have any questions about what flavor of certificate might be required for your application.

• You'll Eventually Need a Canadian Passport - Canada says (and Canada doesn't lie) that if you're a Canadian citizen residing outside of Canada, you need a Canadian passport to travel to or through Canada. So do that.

• AI sucks, but don't be afraid to use your favorite agentic overlord to help you find the various departments of provincial records you'll need to be requesting birth and citizenship records from. This is something that AI is reasonably helpful at assisting with.

An outline of assembling your submission

An earnest and thankful to friend and baritone brother, Rick, for providing the following guidance to me. Note for nuthin: while far too young to be a PROPER boomer, Rick still does employ the vintage practice of inserting two spaces after a period. Thanks for keeping the dream alive, Rick!

The Checklist shows you what you need to submit.  You'll need to use Adobe Acrobat to edit the Checklist and the Application, and then mail in printed copies.  They want you to put the following documents in this order:

1. Checklist on top

2. Application for a Citizenship Certificate (CIT 0001), completed, signed, and dated

3. Your two neutral, correctly proportioned, glasses-free, digitally-unedited photographs with your name, the photographer's name, the photographer's business name, the  photographer's business address, and the date the photos were taken written on the back of both.  The rules for the photographs are stringent, so make sure your photographer understands them and follows them.

4. Two pieces of ID, one of which must include your photo, preferably a clean color copy of your driver's license and your passport

5. The proof of payment (you prepay $75 CAD per person online, and the Canadian government sends you an official confirmation that your payment was processed)

6. Your birth certificate

7. The birth certificate of your parent(s) who were children of Canadians

8. The birth certificate of your Canadian grandparents

Double-check everything because if there's anything wrong with any of it, it all

gets returned to you and you have to start over, including paying the fee again.