Journal BarbaraHudson's Journal: Can't wait to see where they'll deport me to ... 13
Stupid tax department just sent me a notice re tax credits that I supposedly don't qualify for. The reason:
... on the 31 of December, 2015, you were not a Canadian citizen, nor a permanent resident or a protected person under the Immigration and protection of refugees act, nor a temporary resident living in Canada for the last 18 months
I was born here from Canadian parents, my old birth certificate says the same, and I sent them my certificate of change of name and designated sex (that's what we call it here), but somehow now I'm an undocumented illegal alien since, even with the paperwork, they can't connect the dots.
Maybe I'm dead to them. How much would you pay to have your existence to the government wiped clean? I also wonder:
- just how did I supposedly illegally enter the country?
- what is my country of origin?
- what is my citizenship?
- can I apply for refugee status????
- will they try to deport me?
- what happens to my medical coverage?
Bureaucratic errors tend to propagate. Kind of like cockroaches. But the tax man knows better than me, even though I sent them a copy of my certificate of change of name and sex. In the same envelope as the application for the tax credit. And that somehow their notice to me was delayed because the post office returned the notice because "they - the post office - couldn't find me so they had to do research to find my current address. Even though it was on the form. Even though the post office manages to send other stuff addressed to me.
This is not the first time that the tax man claims that the post office returned mail they sent. Nobody else seems to have that problem. Not other government departments. Not my bank. Not anyone else
I suspect someone in the department doesn't like transsexuals and destroyed the name change cert.
Hmm
What's that saying? Hanlon's razor ... (Score:2)
Hanlon's Razor [wikipedia.org]
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"
Hope everything works out for you.
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Too funny. (Score:2)
LOL The lady won't bitch. I've got a spare room and I'm right across the border, albeit way over in the east.
Just for shits and giggles, we can probably find a way to fire random projectiles into Canada - right from my property. It's Canada... They've gotta be nice to me, I passed my exam and am a citizen. (Dual-citizenship is unrecognized, but I can be a citizen of both countries. I'm pretty sure I've mentioned this before.)
So, if they give you the boot, come on down and we'll figure out some sort of canno
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The US does not. I'd have to renounce citizenship and I am foolish enough to have some sentimental attachment. Besides, my stuff is here.
I am in a strange limbo, but Canada doesn't assess any taxes except on the property in Halifax. And, if shit gets real, I can cross the border with no problems and I have a passport issued by Canada. I am pretty sure this is the only advantage for being Micmac.
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The US does not
Perhaps you know something that I don't, but I know people with US-Canada dual citizenship. I have Canadian-born relatives who live in the US with dual citizenship, and I had a boss once with US-Canada-Guatemala triple citizenship. I just recently met someone else with dual US-Australian citizenship.
It's not always the most straightforward thing, of course, and sometimes you need to declare your income to all of the countries you claim citizenship in, but as best I know the US does recognize it.
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It hardly matters. I consider US citizenship to be a quite undesirable state to be in. I don't think I
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They still consider you a US citizen for tax purposes. But there are tax treaties in place where, for example, people who hold dual citizenship can reduce their Canadian tax payable by the amount they paid to the US.
Every country that you have citizenship with considers you a citizen of that country. One of my friends found out the hard way that dual Canadian-Italian citizenship means that if he ever visits Italy, he'd be required to make up the compulsory military service every Italian citizen had to do (
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Straight from the horse's a... er, mouth [state.gov]
"The U.S. Government recognizes that dual nationality exists but does not encourage it as a matter of policy because of the problems it may cause. Claims of other countries on dual national U.S. nationals may conflict with U.S. law, and dual nationality may limit U.S. Government efforts to assist nationals abroad. The country where a dual national is located generally has a stronger claim to that person's allegiance."
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Thanks. As mentioned above, I may have misunderstood the attorney or it may have changed. I have to wonder about conflicting laws. Hmm... I should ask a lawyer, but definitely not the one who helped with applications/paperwork.
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Someone down-thread linked it, and it looks like I either misunderstood the attorney or they have changed the regulations? I am not certain, but it probably the former.
File Number Systems (Score:2)
I suspect this has a lot to do with file number systems.
In many countries that I have lived in, the initial number in any ID number is often used to indicate sex. Fraudsters often use this to create fake ID/Passports that create valid checksums by changing the initial number.
My guess is this is a database lookup error, or that they have automatically changed the number without notifying you, or the system is not yet built to deal with this.
Bureaucracy will always be a pain in the ass.
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Another tax return was accepted after the change of name and designated sex. I could look it up to see what the past number was, but this one is obviously NOT a normal one. XX0001, where XX is two letters that I'm not going to post because having a valid tax file with no tax history is something a lot of fraudsters would love to have to hide behind.
Too bad I didn't engage in massive tax fraud like the rich ...