Donald Trump’s Presidency Has Not Increased the Number of Americans Applying for Canadian Citizenship
Despite claims by furious Trump opponents that they would leave the country if he won the presidency, Canada hasn’t proved as many citizenship applications as might be expected.
The country’s did receive an uptick of 66 per cent in applications from January-April 2017, but that only meant an average of 400 people per month rather than the previous year’s 264.
And those figures are still down from highs of 2011 – the middle of the Obama administration – when 564 Americans a month were trying to become Canadian, the National Post reported.
The paper looked at figures from from 2007 to April of this year, obtained from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.
The figures don’t include Americans who have moved to the country in the hope of becoming permanent residents, or those who already live there. (Read more from “Donald Trump’s Presidency Has Not Increased the Number of Americans Applying for Canadian Citizenship” HERE)
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