<div dir="ltr">Amazing, all this, while other people have to wait for years and years for the same citizenship</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:geoffreymendelson@gmail.com" target="_blank">geoffreymendelson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On 7/23/2013 6:07 AM, Tom Balazs wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Q: What is the minimum investment that I would need to apply for a<br>
start-up visa?<br>
<br>
A: You must secure a minimum investment of $200,000 if the investment<br>
comes from a designated Canadian venture capital fund.<br>
<br>
You must secure a minimum investment of $75,000 if the investment comes<br>
from a designated Canadian angel investor group.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/business/start-up/index.asp" target="_blank">http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/<u></u>immigrate/business/start-up/<u></u>index.asp</a><br>
</blockquote>
<br>
<br></div></div>
Or if it turns out that you were born in Canada, or have a relative that was born in Canada, you are a Canadian citizen.<br>
<br>
I was born in Canada, my parents were dual US/Canadian citizens. I moved to the US when I was 5, and never went back, so I lost my citizenship.<br>
<br>
About two years ago, the law was changed, and I am now a Canadian citizen, so is my wife, my children (who have never been to Canada), and their spouses and their children*.<br>
<br>
I think it goes farther than that.<br>
<br>
In order to claim your free citizenship, you fill out a form and send them $75, which gets you a citizen's ID card (similar to a tehudat zehut). Once you have one of those you can apply for a passport.<br>
<br>
Since the citizenship was bestowed upon you, and not requested it does not affect your other (e.g. US or Israeli citizenship) you may have, nor does it incur any tax liability.<br>
<br>
Geoff.<br>
<br>
* My oldest son is the only one who is married and it turns out his wife's father was born in Canada, so he would also be a citizen, and so would his children because his wife is now a citizen.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<br>
<br>
-- <br>
Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM/KBUH7245/KBUW5379<br>
<br>
______________________________<u></u>_________________<br>
Linux-il mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il" target="_blank">Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il</a><br>
<a href="http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il" target="_blank">http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/<u></u>mailman/listinfo/linux-il</a><br>
</font></span></blockquote></div><br></div>