Founding cohort · Ireland & Canada · October 2026
Nobody in your family has done this before. A small, live cohort for family leads ready to claim Irish or Canadian citizenship by descent — without losing a year, overpaying, or making the mistakes that get applications sent back.
Can't make October? Cohorts 2 and 3 are on the books. Reserve a seat at the $400. See later dates
The four-part method
Each live session moves your claim one step closer — from what your family remembers to what a government will accept.
Build your citizenship tree. Map the people and events that prove your claim — births, marriages, deaths, naturalizations — from you back to your qualifying ancestor.
Get the right documents in the right form. Find what's in the family and what's in the archives, and order exactly what's required: certified, long-form, apostilled — or not.
Master your program's hardest step. Ireland: the witnessing process. Canada: Quebec records. The country-specific moves that decide whether you succeed on the first try.
Complete the application. Ireland: submit your Foreign Births Register application online. Canada: your citizenship certificate application prepared and ready the moment your records land.
“You'll stop being the person in your family who's ‘going to look into it’ — and become the one who filed.”
The real outcome of the cohort
What you'll walk away with
Is this your room?
Inside the cohort
Interactive, 60-minute group sessions on Google Meet. Recorded, so your family can follow along.
Your application, tree, and document plan reviewed personally.
Every session, on your schedule — and shareable with family.
WitnessKit for Ireland. PetitionKit for New York records. The kits that make the hardest steps coordinatable.
24 family leads on the same path, in a private cohort space. It stays open after the last session.
Founding cohort dates
All sessions run live 7:00–8:00pm ET on Google Meet and are recorded. Weeks 5–6 are the filing window: Wednesday office hours (6:00pm ET) and the cohort space stay open while your records land.
Witnessing requirements, long-form certificate rules, and the FBR sequence.
Proof of the anchor ancestor's status, the certificate types IRCC accepts, and what Bill C-3 changed.
Founding cohort investment
$250
Founding price. Standard price $400 from Cohort 2 on.
Includes Heritage Passport for life.Applications close once a track is full.
Each track capped at 25 family leads.
Every application is reviewed by the founder to make sure you're not just eligible but highly viable — so the room is full of people who will actually file. We'll ask how well you know your tree, what documents you have, and what you're missing. You don't need everything in hand. You do need to know who your qualifying ancestor is, and roughly when and where they were born. You'll hear back within 2 business days if accepted, with your payment link and next steps to enroll.
Apply for the founding cohortApplications close once a track is full.
If, during the cohort, we can't help you locate and order your qualifying ancestor's birth record, you get a full refund. One honest limit: if the only remaining path is a paid genealogist or a court petition and you choose not to pursue it, that's your call — and the guarantee doesn't apply.
Live seat counts for the Ireland track will appear when accepted places are recorded.
After the filing window
A six-week program you finish alone is a course. Twenty-five family leads in the same queue for the year that follows is something else — and it's the reason this costs what it costs.
Written examples, not member quotes — the founding cohort hasn't started yet.
One seat per family. Seats fill in the order claimed.
Nobody does this twice. There is no second attempt to learn from.
Why we built this
We've worked in global citizenship and immigration. In that time we've watched thousands of families with a legitimate claim lose a year to a wrong form, a photocopy where a certified copy was required, or a birth record nobody knew how to unlock. None of it was hard once you knew the path. All of it was expensive to learn alone.
Heritage Circle is the path, taught live, to 25 family leads at a time — with the tools we wish had existed: a tree that knows what the government needs, kits for the steps that trip everyone, and a room full of people filing the same forms you are.
We can't promise what a government does with your file, or how fast. We can promise you'll leave with a complete tree, the right documents on order, and — on the Ireland track — your application already submitted.
The founding round
This is the most personal, high-touch version of Heritage Circle there will ever be.
Reserved for graduates
One Ireland-track graduate wins a round-trip flight to Ireland and two nights in Dublin. Awarded to a graduate who completes the program.
One Canada-track graduate wins a round-trip flight to Canada and two nights in Montréal. Awarded to a graduate who completes the program.
On the books · the rest of 2026
Heritage Circle runs on a rolling calendar. If October doesn't work, reserve a seat in a later cohort at the standard price. Seats are held on payment.
Cohort 2
25 seats per track
Wed Nov 11 · Nov 18 · Nov 25 · Dec 2 · filing window to Dec 16
Thu Nov 12 · Nov 19 · Dec 3 (Thanksgiving break) · Dec 10 · filing window to Dec 24
Cohort 3
25 seats per track
Tue Dec 1 · Dec 8 · Dec 15 · Jan 5 (holiday break) · filing window to Jan 19
Thu Dec 3 · Dec 10 · Dec 17 · Jan 7 (holiday break) · filing window to Jan 21
Every cohort includes Heritage Passport for life and the Birth Record Guarantee. Founding pricing ends when the October tracks fill.
A few questions
No. You need to know who your qualifying ancestor is and roughly when and where they were born. Getting the documents is what the cohort is for. The application asks what you have and what's missing so your retrieval plan starts on day one.
Every session is recorded and posted the same night. Bring your questions to the cohort space or Wednesday office hours. Missing one session is fine; missing two makes the filing commitment hard to keep.
Ireland: yes. The Foreign Births Register application is submitted online, and you'll submit it by Session 4. Your supporting documents follow by mail as they arrive — that's what the filing window is for. Canada: your citizenship certificate application will be prepared and ready; it goes in the moment your last record lands.
No. New York State and New York City restrict birth records that aren't old enough to be public, but descendants can obtain them by court order. PetitionKit walks you through preparing and filing that petition. It's the most common wall for Irish claims through New York, and the cohort was built around it.
Quebec's Directeur de l'état civil only releases records to people with a proven relationship, and the request has to be made a specific way. Session 3 of the Canada track is built around exactly that. We do it together.
One seat per family — the person driving the claim. If you're eligible, your siblings are too. Once you graduate you can bring them in at your founding price, and every session is recorded so they can follow along now.
The full Heritage Passport platform — your Citizenship Tree, Document Vault, prefilled record-request forms, and the cohort space — for as long as your case runs, and after.
If we can't help you locate and order your qualifying ancestor's birth record during the cohort, you get a full refund. If the only remaining path is a paid genealogist or a court petition and you decline it, the guarantee doesn't apply.
Reserve a seat in Cohort 2 (November) or Cohort 3 (December) at the standard price. Your seat is held on payment, the same guarantee applies, and you'll fill in the same short intake so your founder review is ready before Session 1. Founding pricing is October only.
You can. Firms charge thousands and still need you to supply the family facts and chase the records. Heritage Circle teaches you to do it right once, with the tools, and you keep the platform.
