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A few questions:

First - About the father, Rafael Sr and his selective service card. I’ve read elsewhere that he officially emigrated to Canada in 1969. This article says the process might have begin as early as 1967. As you recall, the Vietnam War was RAGING in those years. It is odd that he went immediately to Canada upon receiving his ‘selective service card’.

The question: even though he was older, one has to wonder about draft numbers and green card holders. I know they were eligible to be drafted. However, what was Rafael Cruz’s draft number and what was his culpability to the draft?

Second - About the mother. I have heard that voter registration rolls were automatic, but were not based on registration but on simply having an address. However, if her husband had moved to Canada, and she had also, it would have made sense for her to join her husband in applying for Canadian citizenship. My understanding of the law was that dual citizenship was discouraged, so one might gain it by being a Canadian born overseas, but if one were applying for Canadian citizenship, then a renunciation of old citizenship would have been expected. This is hinted at in Senior’s giving up Canadian citizenship when he became a US citizen. He doesn’t mention also giving up Cuban citizenship. Why? Because he’d already had to give that up when obtaining Canadian citizenship.

So, for Eleanor Cruz, did she give up US citizenship at any point, or enter a process that would have resulted in that eventually?