Preliminary eligibility
A few questions about your family help you decide whether Bill C-3 likely makes pursuing this worthwhile — before you commit time or money.
The app
Everything you need, organized.
From the first "wait, am I eligible?" through a printed, ready-to-mail application package — guided, with checklists, validations, and document templates at every step.
Features
Five tools that take you end to end — from "wait, am I eligible?" to a complete, ready-to-mail application package.
Lineage documentation
Map your family chain to the Canadian ancestor, with validations that flag gaps or inconsistencies before IRCC does.
Evidence gathering
Know which birth, marriage, naturalization, and travel records you may need — and where to request them from.
Application package
Forms drafted from your tree, validated against IRCC's published requirements, with a checklist for the mail-in package you submit yourself.
After the certificate
If your application succeeds, we guide you through PPTC 153 — your first adult Canadian passport — including the PPTC 132 statutory declaration path for applicants outside Canada.
Free to start. Pay per journey.
Download, install, and start using Suddenly Canadian for free. The Eligibility Screener, Documentation Organizer, and the FAQs are always free — no account required, no time limits.
When you're ready to file, you unlock the journey you need. Each unlock is a one-time purchase per journey, scaled to your family — siblings, parents, and children claiming through the same ancestry are added as additional applicants. You can add more applicants any time; there are no subscriptions and no recurring fees. Or bundle both journeys up front for less than buying à la carte. See bundles, worked examples, and the FAQ →
- Citizenship Certificate
- $16 USD
- First applicant · +$4 each additional
- Passport Application
- $6 USD
- First applicant · +$2 each additional
One-time per journey. Add applicants any time.
Tailored to your case
Built to adapt, not generalize.
Bill C-3 isn't a single rule — it's a set of overlapping pathways with different evidence requirements depending on who you're claiming through and when. Rather than handing you a one-size-fits-all checklist, Suddenly Canadian adapts to what you tell it about your family.
Your scenario, your checklist
As you build your lineage, the app reads the facts — who was born where, who naturalized when, who's claiming through which parent — and identifies which Bill C-3 (or C-37) citizenship proof scenario fits your case. Then it generates the exact documentation IRCC expects for that scenario. No chasing documents that don't apply; no missing the ones that do.
One submission, multiple applicants
Siblings, parents, and children claiming through the same ancestry can share a single Suddenly Canadian project. Common evidence — your grandfather's birth certificate, your mother's marriage record — is captured once and reused. The app produces a separate CIT 0001 application for each applicant while keeping the shared evidence in lock-step.
Per-applicant passport prep
Once IRCC issues a citizenship certificate, the right passport form depends on each applicant's situation. The app asks a few simple questions per applicant — and from those answers picks the correct first-time passport application form, then determines whether a PPTC 132 Statutory Declaration in Lieu of Guarantor is additionally required.
Records & evidence
Every life event. Every document.
Canadian citizenship by descent runs on documentation. Suddenly Canadian models the full set of life events that matter to an application — and supports the evidence types that prove each one. Every document attaches to a person, to a specific life event, or to both, so nothing gets misfiled.
Life events
Each person in your tree can carry any combination of these life events:
- Birth
- Death
- Marriage
- Divorce
- Naturalization
- Loss of citizenship
- Immigration
- Emigration
- Residency
- Adoption
- Name change
- Military service
- Government service
- Gender reassignment
- Alias / pseudonym use
- Work history
Document types
Each document is evidence-tagged — it can identify a person, prove a specific life event, or do both at once.
Attaches to a person &/or a life event
- Government-issued ID
- Citizenship photo
- Passport photo
- Canadian Citizenship Certificate
- Canadian Naturalization Certificate
- Registration of Birth Abroad
- Certificate of Retention
- Passport
- Other
Attaches to a life event
- Birth Certificate
- Long-form Birth Certificate
- Death Certificate
- Marriage Certificate
- Adoption Order / Decree
- British Naturalization Certificate
- Naturalization Record (non-Canadian, non-British)
- Landed Immigrant / PR Record
- Residency proof
- CIT 0555 — Physical Presence form
- Census Record
- Military Record
- Immigration Record
- Social Security Record
- Application form
- Correspondence
Forms produced
Every form, filled and ready to mail.
Suddenly Canadian generates the IRCC and passport forms applicable to your specific case — pre-filled from your tree, validated against IRCC's requirements, and produced as PDFs you can print, sign, and submit. Two journeys, fully covered.
Canadian Citizenship Certificate
- CIT 0001
- CIT 0014
- CIT 0555
- IMM 5476
Canadian Passport
Our analysis engine asks each applicant a small number of qualifier questions — age, country of application, guarantor situation — and produces the right form from the catalog below.
- PPTC 153
- PPTC 155
- PPTC 140
- PPTC 142
- PPTC 040
- PPTC 042
- PPTC 132INTER 83-170SE
Want to see how the app keeps your data safe?
Everything described above runs locally on your device, AES-256-encrypted, with optional public/private-key sync only you control.