My fathers mother (my paternal grandmother) was born in Scotland and game to Canada in the 1950s. Although she married a Canadian citizen around that time she only naturalized in the early 90s when she found she could no longer vote as a British citizen.
My father was born in 1958, long before women could pass citizenship by descent onto foreign born children. With the Citizenship, Borders and Immigration Bill being debated, I understand that if this passes my father will be permitted to register as a citizen by decent.
My parents divorced in the late 1990s after being married for 20 years.
My mother has never remarried and is a Canadian citizen. He has since remarried to a Canadian citizen.
My question is, will my father's citizenship be "retroactive"...so that my mother will have been married to a British citizen?
If so, how would this affect her? I gather she would not be a British citizen, but would she have right of abode?
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