Your citizenship certificate is no longer valid," it said. "Townsend's status in Canada is now a foreign national," the department said in a further letter to her lawyers.
Applying for citizenship when you've been a citizen, or you thought you were a citizen your entire life is really jarring," said Townsend. "This is putting me in a very difficult position."
Townsend and her lawyers say they provided the government with all the facts, arguing Townsend's mother was a citizen when Townsend was born.
"IRCC acknowledges there was a clear error in the issuance of Arielle Townsend's Canadian citizenship certificate," the department sa
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