{"id":30606,"date":"2026-07-22T15:25:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immigrationglobalspace.com\/blog\/?p=30606"},"modified":"2026-07-22T15:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T15:29:10","slug":"canada-issued-nearly-29000-proof-of-citizenship-certificates-in-five-months-with-82000-still-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicnews.com\/2026\/07\/canada-issued-nearly-29000-proof-of-citizenship-certificates-in-five-months-with-82000-still-waiting-0778386.html","title":{"rendered":"Canada issued nearly 29,000 proof of citizenship certificates in five months, with 82,000 still waiting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) issued 28,940 citizenship certificates to proof of citizenship applicants between January 1 and May 31, 2026, according to new data the department published on July 21. A proof of citizenship application is for people who are already Canadian citizens \u2014 whether by birth, descent, or a prior grant \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicnews.com\/2026\/07\/canada-issued-nearly-29000-proof-of-citizenship-certificates-in-five-months-with-82000-still-waiting-0778386.html\">Canada issued nearly 29,000 proof of citizenship certificates in five months, with 82,000 still waiting<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicnews.com\">CIC News<\/a>.<\/p><p>This <a target='_blank'  href=\"https:\/\/www.cicnews.com\/2026\/07\/canada-issued-nearly-29000-proof-of-citizenship-certificates-in-five-months-with-82000-still-waiting-0778386.html\">post<\/a> was originally published on <a target='_blank'  href=\"https:\/\/www.cicnews.com\/\">this site<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) issued 28,940 citizenship certificates to proof of citizenship applicants between January 1 and May 31, 2026, according to new data the department published on July 21. A proof of citizenship application is for people who are already Canadian citizens \u2014 whether by birth, descent, or a prior grant \u2014 [\u2026] The post Canada issued nearly 29,000 proof of citizenship certificates in five months, with 82,000 still waiting first appeared on CIC News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigrationglobalspace.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigrationglobalspace.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigrationglobalspace.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigrationglobalspace.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigrationglobalspace.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/immigrationglobalspace.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30608,"href":"https:\/\/immigrationglobalspace.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30606\/revisions\/30608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigrationglobalspace.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigrationglobalspace.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigrationglobalspace.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigrationglobalspace.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}