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How does adoption affect my child’s relationship with her or his biological parents?

For both the immigration and citizenship process, an adoption is valid only if it ends the child’s legal relationship with the biological parents, and a new legal relationship is established between the adopting parents and the adopted child.

This means the child cannot later sponsor his/her biological relatives to come to Canada.

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