Q: In your previous answer, you said ‘what American’s would call’? Are you not American?

This answer changed recently. I was born in Canada, and my parents are both British, but I’ve been working in the USA for quite a number of years now, and I’ve been married an American citizen for over ten years.

I just finished the rather strange process of ‘Naturalization’ as they like to call it. So yes, I’m now an American. However, I’m still Canadian and thanks to my parents my accent has a tendency to wander all over if I don’t pay attention to it. I’ve been accused of being Welsh on occasion, which baffles me as that’s one of the accents I feel I *can’t* do properly.

Which reminds me, there still some paperwork I have to take care of. I have to figure out how to apply for a new passport. Which is what really prompted this whole Naturalization process. Because I haven’t lived in Canada for such a long time, it’s getting increasingly difficult to renew my Canadian passport. There’s all sorts of hoops you have to jump through with things with having Canadian doctors and whatnot validate I am who I say I am, and given I don’t live there it was getting rather tricky.