# How Can We Both Get Citizenship?
**URL:** https://discourse.settlement.org/t/how-can-we-both-get-citizenship/8945
**Category:** Citizenship
**Created:** [February 15, 2018, 4:01pm UTC](https://discourse.settlement.org/t/how-can-we-both-get-citizenship/8945 "2018-02-15T16:01:40Z")
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### Author:  [@ForumUser](https://discourse.settlement.org/u/ForumUser)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2018, 4:01pm UTC](https://discourse.settlement.org/t/how-can-we-both-get-citizenship/8945/1 "2018-02-15T16:01:40Z")
I live in Mesa Arizona USA and my husband and mother in law are both Canadian citizens does that mean my daughter may already be a citizen or do I need to do the paper work to make her a citizen.
Also do I have to be living there to make sure she gets citizenship?
And for me do I get citizenship by marriage?
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### Author:  [@PMM](https://discourse.settlement.org/u/PMM)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2018, 1:36pm UTC](https://discourse.settlement.org/t/how-can-we-both-get-citizenship/8945/2 "2018-02-16T13:36:35Z")
Hi
> [@ForumUser](#):
>
> I live in Mesa Arizona USA and my husband and mother in law are both Canadian citizens does that mean my daughter may already be a citizen or do I need to do the paper work to make her a citizen.
>
> Also do I have to be living there to make sure she gets citizenship?
>
> And for me do I get citizenship by marriage?
1. If the daughter’s father was a Canadian citizen at the time of her birth, then she is a Canadian citizen. (Assuming her father received his citizenship through birth or naturalization) She applies for proof of citizenship see: **[http://tinyurl.com/y78h8ndb](http://tinyurl.com/y78h8ndb)**
2. No, there is no citizenship through marriage. Your spouse would have to sponsor you for permanent residence (and show that once a visa is issued, he would be returning to Canada). Once you received Permanent Residence in Canada, you would have to reside in Canada for 3 years in a 5 year period before you could apply for citizenship.