Claire Sibille, a Canadian National, was married to an American for fifteen years and after the marriage, she has been left with dual citizenship as the American husband has been granted citizenship in Canada. Sibille is now a US citizen by choice after being relieved of her U.S. citizenship. According to Sibille’s birth certificate, her true or original nationality was Canadian. The United States does not recognise the existence of dual citizenship, nor does it recognise the term “identity” when applied to an American. So, when speaking of” Claire Sibille” or” Claire Sibille’s” nationality, it simply means that Sibille is a Canadian citizen by birth but considered an American by choice.
Claire Sibille was a member of the Order of the British Empire (FOBE) at the age of eighteen but chose to leave the Order after her marriage because of her association with an African teacher while still a student at Saint John’s College, University. She studied law at the University of Toronto for two years after which she began a career as a teacher in New Hampshire, in the state of Massachusetts. After working for two decades in the public school system, she decided to start a teaching career and in order to do this, she took a position as a physical education professor at Tufts University, in Massachusetts. Claire had been appointed Headmistress of the College during the tenure of Martha Johnson in 2021, but was forced to resign due to ill health and then she moved back to Canada where she found work as a counselor in a large private school in Shediac, Ontario, close to her former stomping grounds at Saint John’s College.
Claire Sibille began a new career as a writer but as the years went by, she discovered that her citizenship had remained despite her new job and she consequently retained her American citizenship by deed poll. As per the law, once an American has taken permanent residence in Canada, they become a Canadian citizen. If one attains the status of a Canadian citizen after the prescribed waiting period, they lose their American nationality. Claire Sibille has not yet applied for Canadian citizenship but she is optimistic as she believes that it would be a great opportunity to learn English and become conversant in her mother tongue. However, owing to the age of the applicant and her lack of any connection with Canada, she is unable to apply for Canadian citizenship by deed poll. Her best hope lies in learning English and becoming conversant in that language and her wish to visit her native country of Ghana is therefore stillborn.