How do I unlink or separate family or group citizenship applications?
How you unlink applications within a family or group depends on your application. We review and decide on requests to unlink applications on a case-by-case basis.
Citizenship applications (grants of citizenship)
You applied for citizenship online
If you haven't submitted your group's applications yet
Follow our instructions to leave or remove someone from the group.
If you already submitted your group's applications
You applied for citizenship on paper
If you want to unlink or separate your family's applications
Send us a request through our web form.
This includes people who applied to become Canadian citizens and are:
- Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) members
- adopted children born outside Canada
- stateless people born to Canadian parents
If there's a problem with one of the applications in your family or group
We may separate your family's applications if one of the applications in your group gets delayed.
If we do separate the applications, we'll continue to process the other family members' applications. This might mean the person whose application is delayed will attend a different citizenship ceremony and become a citizen on a different day from the rest of the group.
We'll tell you before we separate your family's applications. We'll also send you a form you can use to ask us to process the applications together.
If you want the applications processed together, we'll pause the other applications until all applications are ready to be finalized. If citizenship is then granted, all family members will attend the same ceremony.
All other citizenship-related applications
This includes:
- proof of citizenship (citizenship certificates)
- search of citizenship records
- renouncing your Canadian citizenship
- resuming your Canadian citizenship
- becoming a Canadian citizen (citizenship grant) for:
- Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) members
- adopted children born outside Canada
- stateless people born to Canadian parents
To unlink an application from the group, send us a request through our web form.
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