Paragraph 3(2) of the Citizenship Act states that Canadian citizenship by birth in Canada is not granted to a child born in Canada if neither parent is a Canadian citizen or permanent resident, and either parent had the following occupation at the time of the child's birth:[10]
an employee of a foreign government in Canada,
a servant of an employee of the foreign government, and,
an employee of a foreign organization which enjoys diplomatic immunity in Canada, including the United Nations.
In a high-profile 2015 case, Deepan Budlakoti, a stateless man born in Ottawa, Ontario, was declared not to be a Canadian citizen because his parents were employed as domestic staffs by the High Commissioner of India in Canada and their contracts legally ended two months after his birth, despite the fact that they started to work for a non-diplomat well before their contracts ended and before Budlakoti was born.[11]