--- title: Ted Cruz Renounces Canadian Citizenship description: The Republican senator gave up his dual citizenship months after first learning he was a Canadian citizen canonical: https://time.com/2854513/ted-cruz-canadian-citizenship/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-10T23:02:25.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:05:38.942Z article:section: Politics og:title: Ted Cruz Renounces Canadian Citizenship og:description: The Republican senator gave up his dual citizenship months after first learning he was a Canadian citizen og:url: https://time.com/2854513/ted-cruz-canadian-citizenship/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdc2ef2067a776559/6986970b3bc9996c0c1a4053/c1507a1d5edc4d849b396608191b3359-0.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1500 og:image:height: 844 og:image:alt: Ted Cruz og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ted Cruz Renounces Canadian Citizenship twitter:description: The Republican senator gave up his dual citizenship months after first learning he was a Canadian citizen twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdc2ef2067a776559/6986970b3bc9996c0c1a4053/c1507a1d5edc4d849b396608191b3359-0.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Ted Cruz Renounces Newly Discovered Canadian Citizenship > Sponsored content. 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TIME looks at the most provocative and influential moments of Ted Cruz's year in the Senate_  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Jun 10, 2014 11:02 PM UTC  U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz address delegates at the Texas GOP Convention in Fort Worth, Texas, June 6, 2014. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz address delegates at the Texas GOP Convention in Fort Worth, Texas, June 6, 2014. Rex C. Curry—AP  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Jun 10, 2014 11:02 PM UTC Texas Senator (and possible 2016 presidential hopeful) Ted Cruz [has formally given up his Canadian citizenship](http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2014/06/no-canada-sen-ted-cruz-has-formally-shed-his-dual-citizenship.html/), about nine months after learning he had it. While at home in Houston on Tuesday, Cruz was notified by mail that the renunciation became official on May 14, _The Dallas Morning News_ reports. “He’s pleased to receive the notification and glad to have this process finalized,” spokeswoman Catherine Frazier said. Cruz intended to give up his Canadian citizenship, which was not a secret, after _The Dallas Morning News_ first brought it to his attention — to the surprise of him and his family — last August. “Nothing against Canada, but I’m an American by birth and as a U.S. senator, I believe I should be only an American,” said Cruz, who was born in the Canadian province of Alberta, [at the time](http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/headlines/20130819-cruz-i-should-be-only-an-american-will-renounce-canadian-citizenship.ece). Like U.S. law, Canadian law dictates that anyone born in Canada becomes a Canadian citizen automatically. Babies born in non-U.S. countries to at least one American parent are entitled to American citizenship as well. The U.S. Constitution requires presidents to be “natural born” citizens, which is commonly believed to include Americans born with the right to citizenship, even if they were not born on American soil specifically. \[[_The Dallas Morning News_](http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2014/06/no-canada-sen-ted-cruz-has-formally-shed-his-dual-citizenship.html/)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2854513/ted-cruz-canadian-citizenship/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2854513/ted-cruz-canadian-citizenship/"},"headline":"Ted Cruz Renounces Newly Discovered Canadian Citizenship","datePublished":"2014-06-10T23:02:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T08:05:38.942Z","description":"The Republican senator gave up his dual citizenship months after first learning he was a Canadian citizen","url":"https://time.com/2854513/ted-cruz-canadian-citizenship/","keywords":["2016 Campaign","ted cruz"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdc2ef2067a776559/6986970b3bc9996c0c1a4053/c1507a1d5edc4d849b396608191b3359-0.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdc2ef2067a776559/6986970b3bc9996c0c1a4053/c1507a1d5edc4d849b396608191b3359-0.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Ted Cruz","caption":"Ted Cruz","creditText":"Rex C. 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