CIT 0001 Section 9 Addendum: When You Need Extra Pages

Section 9 of the CIT 0001 form covers your great-grandparent's information. It applies specifically when your grandparent appears in your citizenship chain AND was born outside Canada AND never naturalized before your parent was born. In that situation, the claim runs one generation further back, and Section 9 is where that generation goes.

The CIT 0001 form has limited space in Section 9. When you need more room than the form provides, IRCC's official guidance is straightforward: continue on a separate sheet of paper, labeled with the section number. Those extra pages are what applicants call a "Section 9 addendum." There is no official IRCC addendum form to download, just blank paper formatted to include the fields the section requests.

The form's conditional logic works like this:

You needed to provide grandparent information (because your chain runs through a grandparent). Your grandparent was born outside Canada. Your grandparent did not naturalize as Canadian before your parent was born.

All three conditions must be true. If your grandparent was born in Canada, your chain anchors to that birth and Section 9 is not needed. If your grandparent was born abroad but naturalized before the birth of your parent, citizenship passed through naturalization, and Section 9 may not apply at that generation.

Grandparent born in Ontario: Chain anchors to the Ontario birth. Section 9 not required.

Grandparent born in New York, great-grandparent born in Quebec: The chain continues to the Quebec birth. Section 9 required. Document the Quebec great-grandparent there.

Great-grandparent born in Manitoba, great-great-grandparent born in England: The anchor is the Manitoba birth. Section 9 covers the great-grandparent. For a great-great-grandparent chain, IRCC's guidance says to provide that additional generation's information on an extra sheet using the same fields as Section 9.

The fields in Section 9 collect the same type of information as earlier sections. For each ancestor at this level, you will need:

• Full legal name at birth and any other names used (anglicizations, married names, spelling variants)
• Country or territory of birth
• Date of birth in YYYY-MM-DD format, or as complete as known
• How they obtained Canadian citizenship: born in Canada, naturalized, or other
• Canadian citizenship certificate number if known (not required)
• Date of death if applicable

If a piece of information is unknown, write "unknown." If a field does not apply, write "not applicable." Do not leave fields blank.

The form provides one block of fields in Section 9. When that space is insufficient for your chain, IRCC's guidance explicitly permits continuation on extra sheets. This is the "addendum" applicants reference online.

Format for continuation pages: Use plain white paper. At the top, write "CIT 0001: Section 9 (continued)" and include your full name and date of birth as identifying information. List each ancestor's information in the same sequence as the form: surname, given names, other names used, country of birth, date of birth, how they obtained citizenship, date of death.

Where to place the pages: IRCC does not specify exact placement within your application package. Placing continuation pages immediately after Section 9 in the CIT 0001 form is the clearest approach. If that is not practical, attaching all supplemental pages as a labeled block at the end of the completed form, before your supporting documents, also works. Label each extra sheet so it can be reconnected to your file if pages separate in handling.

Community templates: Several community resources have created fillable PDF templates that structure Section 9 fields in a consistent, organized layout. These are not official IRCC documents and carry no special weight with IRCC. They are useful because they ensure you include every required field. Verify that any template matches the current CIT 0001 form before submitting, since IRCC updates its forms periodically and community templates may not reflect recent changes.

IRCC's own guide states directly: the information in Section 9 allows a citizenship officer to determine exactly which provision of the Citizenship Act applies to your claim. Different ancestry paths correspond to different statutory provisions. Born in Canada, naturalized before a specific date, born abroad to a Canadian parent: each is governed by a different subsection. Section 9 is how the officer identifies yours.

You do not need to know which provision applies. Your job is to give the officer accurate, complete information about the chain so they can make that determination. An incomplete or ambiguous Section 9 means the officer has to flag the file for follow-up, which delays your application.

Tom's citizenship chain: Tom (born Vermont, 1987), his mother (born Vermont, 1962), his grandmother (born Vermont, 1936), his great-grandfather (born Nova Scotia, 1898).

Tom's grandmother appears in his chain. She was born outside Canada. She did not naturalize as Canadian before Tom's mother was born. Section 9 applies. Tom documents his Nova Scotia great-grandfather in Section 9: born 6 November 1898, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia; obtained citizenship by birth in Canada; died 1971.

Because Tom's great-grandfather is the only person at that generation in his direct line, the single block of fields in Section 9 is sufficient. No extra pages needed.

Compare Sarah, whose claim extends one generation further to a Canadian-born great-great-grandmother in New Brunswick. Her Section 9 documents her great-grandparents, and a labeled continuation page documents the great-great-grandmother using the same field sequence.

For a complete walkthrough of the CIT 0001 from the first page through the signature, see the CIT 0001 instruction guide. If any generation in your chain lacks a birth certificate, the alternative evidence guide explains what IRCC accepts in place of one.

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