Citizenship: Piper Gilles

Piper Gilles: The American-born ice dancer will get her Canadian citizenship at a Tuesday ceremony in Scarborough, not far from where shes been training with Canadian-born partner Paul Poirier, 22, since the two paired up two years ago, according to The Star. Gilles had her citizenship expedited under whats known as the five-four section of the Citizenship Act, which allows the Minister of Immigration to grant citizenship to alleviate cases of special and unusual hardship or to reward services of an exceptional value to Canada and Less than two months before the Sochi Games , Piper Gilles got the chance she had been waiting nearly two years for and it came in the form of a passport. Its like a lot of weight has been taken off my shoulder, said Gilles, 21. Like an elephant. Thats how heavy it felt. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.