Last July 7th, I requested an index search from the Immigration department for my paternal grandfather’s naturalization records. Received a response, via e-mail, this morning.
So, at the time my father was born, his parents were not citizens. The letter says the naturalization document will be provided to me under separate cover. As the understanding of the law, at that time, was, if a person was born here, they are a citizen, my father was probably not naturalized. I’m frelled. If I become “inconvenient”, I can be stripped of assets and kicked across the river to Windsor.
Hang on a second. My dad was born in PA, in 1912. His parents were not naturalized USians until 1921. That means dad was a dual Canadian/USian citizen? If he was a dual citizen, does that make me a dual citizen, through him? There is a Canadian consulate in Detroit, in the RenCen, on the riverfront. It might be amusing to give them a call, see if I have a claim on Canadian citizenship.
Of course, I could be jumping from the frying pan into the fire.
Seems most of the resources are in Alberta, but I suspect most of the money is in Ontario. I wold tend to gravitate to Ontario, beside, it’s only a forty mile drive from casa del Steve. What would TIG want most, the oil, or the money?
If you were born here, then you are a citizen though, right?
My father was born in Mexico as were his parents (who were both Mexican citizens), but they lived, ranched, and owned property on both sides of the border. He was arrested as a teenager in El Paso in WWII on immigration charges but released on the condition that he swear allegiance to the US when he turned 18, which he did.
He become a rocket scientist with a top secret security clearance with no more proof of citizenship than that.
I looked it up, to see what you saw. I had forgotten that was where I picked it up.
The original BSG had an entire pantheon of alternate terms; “frack”, “felgercarb”, and, the mind boggles, what a “golmonging snitrad” is. BSG also had a base ten time system: “micron”, “centon”, “centar”, “secton”. Marriage was “sealed”, a term I have heard Mormons use. Series creator Glen Larson was a Mormon. I heard characters refer to “victuals”, referring to food and drink, which is a real word, used in the correct context. I can imagine how conflicted the censors were with that show. From the context, they knew what the characters were saying, but the words were not on the official banned list.
It was kind of uneven. There was a season it got pretty bad, and I quit watching it. Then it perked up a bit.
Farscape alums Claudia Black and Ben Browder were in the last couple seasons of “Stargate SG1”. There was some interesting chemistry between Black and long time series member Michael Shanks. They ended up working together a lot in that series.
The e-mail said I would receive my paternal grandfather’s naturalization documents under separate cover. What was on a naturalization certificate in 1921? Under the law in effect from 1906 to 1956:
