Cdn Passport Changes

[purelife]

Under "What's New" on the Passport Canada website:  [A href="vny!://www.ppt.gc.ca/newsroom/index.aspx?lang=e&type=news"]vny!://www.ppt.gc.ca/newsroom/index.aspx?lang=e&type=news[/A]

  I found that the Government is going to simplify procedures for renewing your passport.

  The Simplified Passport Renewal Program will be available as of August 15, 2007.   It will allow Canadian citizens who meet certain eligibility criteria to renew their passport using a shorter form and without submitting documentary evidence of citizenship, supplementary identification and a guarantor declaration. Under the renewal program, passport applicants will only be required to submit the shorter form along with two new photos, the application fee and their last passport.

 More info here: [A href="vny!://www.ppt.gc.ca/newsroom/news.aspx?lang=e&page=/newsroom/20070608c.aspx"]vny!://www.ppt.gc.ca/newsroom/news.aspx?lang=e&page=/newsroom/20070608c.aspx[/A]



New Guarantor Policy

On October 1, 2007, Passport Canada will introduce a simpler guarantor policy, which will allow most Canadian adult passport holders to act as guarantors for first time applicants.

Info here: [A href="vny!://www.ppt.gc.ca/newsroom/news.aspx?lang=e&page=/newsroom/20070608d.aspx"]vny!://www.ppt.gc.ca/newsroom/news.aspx?lang=e&page=/newsroom/20070608d.aspx[/A]      

[Sportsdude]

I bet this has something to do with the backlog of passport requests.  

[purelife]

Yep, I'm pretty sure that is the case ever since they announced the need for a passport to fly to US.  I think that most of us probably got confused and thought that we needed one to cross the border.  

  I hope that one day, they'll increase the expiry to 10 years instead of 5!  That is what I'm looking forward to.

[Michel]

lol more security = less "security" at the end.

[Sportsdude]

wait. Your passports run out every 5 years??? Ours are 10, at least mine is.  

[purelife]

Yep, every 5 years!  Sucks?!!!! I KNOW!  BLEH!

[Sportsdude]

that's CRAZY!
yup because my passport doesn't expire until 2017.
 

[Michel]

That little baby worth between 5 and 10 000 $ CAN on the black market, you have to help the economy by issuing a constant supply of hundred of thousands new passports every 5 years... lol

[Sportsdude]

sounds like a money grab to me to be honest. Then again I had to put down 300 bucks for my passport just to 'speed' the processing time up.  

[Michel]

yep, just some 10 years ago it was 25 $ for 5 years here.

[Sportsdude]

25? lol
regular passport here is like 80 to 120 or something, can't remember. Then to help the war effort I guess you pay a ton extra to Peter McKay's girlfriend at the State Department.
 

[Michel]

It's very expensive here too now, about the same price I think.

[purelife]

Sportsdude wrote:
25? lol
regular passport here is like 80 to 120 or something, can't remember. Then to help the war effort I guess you pay a ton extra to Peter McKay's girlfriend at the State Department.

 
  It was $25 a LONG TIME ago with Canada as mentioned by Michel.  No need to panic!  You misread.


 

[Sportsdude]

oh I see sort of like the 5 cent stamp.  

[Michel]

lol I'm talking about 10 years, not half a century.