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Frequently Asked Questions
General Information
Applicant (16 years of age and older)
Registration under the Indian Act
What defines the eligibility for Indian Status?
Frequently Asked Questions
General Information
Applicant (16 years of age and older)
Registration under the Indian Act
What defines the eligibility for Indian Status?
We are educating the members on the effects of compliance of Bill S-3 and Bill C-31 by hosting forums to present information to the leadership and members of the member First Nations.
Frequently Asked Questions
Response:
- What is required to apply to become a registered Indian?
- Am I eligible?
Response:
- Complete an Adult Application for Registration as an Indian form along with providing an Original Birth Certificate (listing parents' name)
General Information
- You will be required to provide information about yourself, your parents and your grandparents including legal names, date of birth, band name and registration numbers, contact information and adoption information (if relevant)
Applicant (16 years of age and older)
- Parental/Guardian Signatures when applying on behalf of a minor child (15 years of age or younger) or dependent adult.
Registration under the Indian Act
- The following describes who is eligible for registration as an Indian under the Indian Act. Registration as an Indian does not happen automatically; you must apply.
- And, if applicable
- Legal change of name document or marriage certificate, if the name you are applying under is different from your Birth Certificate.
What defines the eligibility for Indian Status?
- The Indian Act defines eligibility for Indian Status (i.e. Registered Indians). The Indian Register is the official record identifying all Status Indians in Canada.
You are eligible for registration if:
- You were entitled to registration prior to the changing of the Indian Act on April 17, 1985;
- You lost your Indian Status as a result of your marriage to a non-Indian man (s. 12(1)(b)), including enfranchisement upon your marriage to a non-Indian man (s. 109(2));
- Your mother and father's mother did not have status under the Indian Act, before their marriage and you lost your status at the age of 21 (s.12 (1)(a)(iv) – (referred to commonly as the double-mother rule);
- Your registration was successfully protested on the grounds that your father did not have status under the Indian Act, however your mother had status;
- You lost your registration because you or your parents applied to give up registration and First Nation membership through the process known as "enfranchisement"; or
- You are a child of persons listed in 1 to 5 above.
- You may also be eligible for registration if only one of your parents is eligible to be registered under Section 6(1) of the Indian Act.
- Recently, the issuance of Indian Status Cards has changed, and now different cards are being issued, called the Secure Certificate of Indian Status (SCIS). The SCIS cards cannot be issued locally and are mailed out from Ottawa to the applicant’s home address or mailed care of the Indian registration office. The SCIS cards must be applied for using the SCIS Card application form supported by a photocopy of the applicant’s birth certificate, applicant’s passport photograph, together with the other requested information and payment of the required fee. The link to the federal department’s websites for status cards is as follows: The general section for how to apply for Indian Status and a status card can be found here:
Date modified:
2020-04-19
2020-04-19
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Contact Information
Tammy Gadwa 4901 47 Street St. Paul, Alberta T0A 3A3 |
Days of Operation
Mondays & Wednesdays |
Hours of Operations
1:00 PM till 4:00 PM |
