Cruz got the news by mail at his Houston home, the Dallas Morning News reports. Cruz ceases to be a Canadian

It’s official: Sen. Ted Cruz is no longer a dual citizen of Canada.

The Texas senator “has formally renounced his Canadian citizenship and pursuant to the Citizenship Act will cease to be a citizen,” according to the renunciation certificate provided to The Dallas Morning News. The switch became official May 14, per the certificate.


He got the news by mail at his Houston home Tuesday, the newspaper reported.

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Cruz had been pursuing the renunciation ever since he released his birth certificate to the paper last August. The release intensified scrutiny of a potential 2016 run.

He was born in Calgary, Alberta, on May 22, 1970, to an American-born mother and a Cuban-born father who became a U.S. citizen in 2005.