A 92-year-old Ontario woman, who immigrated to Canada in 1947, наконец became a citizen в этом месяце, the Глобус & Почта сообщил:

Для более 64 лет, British-born Cynthia England has called Canada home: Она работала здесь, raised children, paid taxes and now collects a pension.

But thanks to a bureaucratic quirk, she was never a citizen.

The 92-year-old crossed the pond with her husband, a Canadian army officer, в 1947, but arrived a few days late to qualify for the automatic citizenship conferred on war brides.

She took the citizenship oath in her home, in a special ceremony that Гражданства и иммиграции Канады расположены.

По делам гражданства и иммиграции Канады (CIC) сайт, Ð’Ñ‹ должны быть по крайней мере 18 to apply for citizenship, but no maximum age is given. Сайт CIC также говорится, что prospective new Canadians must take the citizenship test if you’re between the ages of 18 и 54.

(So does that mean that if you’re 55 or older when your citizenship application is approved, you don’t have to write the test? Can anyone confirm?)

Ð’ любом случае, if you’re thinking about applying for Canadian citizenship, it’s never too late!

И как Ms. Англия сказал, "…where else are you going to have a better life than in Canada?"

Canadian passport photo by Jason Spaceman (Flickr)