Read the actual CBC article before this hysterical blog post. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/maria-kartasheva-russia-citizenship-conviction-1.7074233 ht

Read the actual CBC article before this hysterical blog post. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/maria-kartasheva-russia-citizenship-conviction-1.7074233 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/maria-kartasheva-russi... This is just your average case of bureaucratic process, where they flag on technical truths (that the kind of conviction has similarities to any existing law in Canada, no matter how tenuous), and then the applicant explains the situation and it gets resolved. Yes, it sucks that it caused such a situation in this obvious case, and it's stressful as hell, but the whole point of the explanation part is to keep edge cases from falling through the cracks.