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File No. 569739 · Adjudicated
Nina Dobrev
Actor — The Vampire Diaries, Degrassi: The Next Generation, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Born
1989
Birthplace
SOFIA, BULGARIA
Citizenships
BULGARIA / CA
Canadianness Score
🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁
2.0/ 5
Weighted across 6 scored criteria
Designation
Gets Yearly Letters from the CRA 📬Not born or raised there — but the CRA always knows where to find them.
Scorecard
Path B — not born on Canadian soilI. Origin
Born on Canadian soil — no
SOFIA, BULGARIA
Canadian parentage — no
No Canadian parents on record
Citizenship on record — yes
Held — by descent or naturalisation
II. Residency
Formative years spent in Canada — no
Raised elsewhere
Lived in Canada by choice — yes
Residency on record as an adult
Worked or filmed in Canada — yes
Credits filed north of the 49th
III. Cultural evidence — not scored
Section III is recorded for the file only. It carries no weight under either path.
Publicly claims to be Canadian — not scored
Has never brought it up
Canada claims them back — not scored
No claim lodged
The verdict
Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, and moved to Toronto at age two, Nina Dobrev grew up entirely in Canada — attending J.B. Tyrrell Senior Public School in Degrassi Community in Toronto (not the show, the actual neighbourhood). She holds Canadian citizenship and is, by every meaningful measure, Canadian.
Adjudicated by
The Standings Committee
Status
Final — appealable
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