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Americans With Acadian Roots Seek Canadian Citizenship, But Some Face Unexpected Hurdles
A Nova Scotia genealogy centre says it has fielded dozens of citizenship-by-descent requests from U.S. Acadians, but one Louisiana applicant had her approval reversed over a document sourced from an American archive
Published: July 28, 2026
Dozens of Acadians living in the United States are hoping to become Canadian citizens under a new citizenship-by-descent law, with a documentation specialist at the Universite de Moncton's Anselme-Chiasson Centre saying she has received genealogy requests from at least 30 people since January tracing family lines back to the 1755 expulsion.
The process has proven complicated. A Louisiana woman who traced her ancestry to a 1730 baptismal record from a church now part of the Grand Pre National Historic Site was approved for citizenship in February, only to be asked in June to surrender her certificate after immigration officials said the approval was an administrative error, since U.S.-sourced documents alone cannot confirm citizenship claims.
Nova Scotia Senator Allister Surette said he wants immigration officials to look at these cases carefully, calling the cultural and emotional connection between Acadian communities on both sides of the border significant. The applicant, who hopes to move to Canada, said her family would likely have been born there if not for the expulsion.
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