This is my good deed for the day, the week or the month, depending on how you want to look at it. I need a new passport and I had to go to the CDN embassy in BKK for something else, so I asked the woman there what I need for a new passport.
I don't have a guarantor who is a cop or a doctor who has known me for a couple of years, and I presume this might be the case for others. If this is the case, you need to go to a lawyer to process your paperwork. Here's a list of what you need to bring with you:
1) Your current passport (that's obvious)
2) The application
3) A photo with a white background - the size is shown on the application and on their web site. You might need to send 2 or 3, I can't remember, but I would do overkill, just to be safe
4) Your birth certificate - the original
5) Another piece of ID, which can be your SIN card, a driver's license - it can be from your province, a Thai one or an international one, as long as it's current
6) Of course, the $$$$$. I only asked about the 48-page passport, as it's only a bit higher in cost than the 24-page version. The 48-page passport is $105 CDN. If you're applying by mail, you need to get a bank draft in baht at the current exchange rate for that day.
7) You need to send in a copy of the lawyer's license. The lawyer has to do a couple of things before: he / she must fill in the bottom portion of the application
and sign the back of 1 photo
Please note that it takes THREE WEEKS for your new passport to arrive. I know other embassies do it in two, so you need to be aware of this. They send the paperwork to Canada and your new passport is machine readable.
You will receive your old passport back with your new one, and you will need to go to your local Immigration office with both passports for them to transfer your visas over.
What the hell, all an American needs is the photo, and the old passport. Load of hooey, if you ask me.
Plus we get the letter to immigration asking to change our visas for us. And the cost is less as well. God save the Queen.
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my thoughts exactly.Originally Posted by aging one
A good deed nonetheless.
Agreed, of all the countries my wife has been to the Canadian visa was the hardest as well.
Same story at the UK embassy AO.
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Wow, wonder whats up with those canucks?
Why the hell would they make their citizens jump through all those hoops. How much for the lawyer as well.
Welcome to the soviet canuckistan, maybe they should also ask a certificate from a local rabbi proving that you're not a Jew and establish Canadian heritage on each sides of the family at least 4 generations back
Nat...I don't think you need a guarantor, that's only for your initial passport. I was back in Canada a couple of years back and had a renewal done, definitely no guarantor required. Just the old passport and the money.
Why would you need a guarantor for a renewal. Was the lady Thai?
I think maybe you got misinformed.
Oh yes, same with the birth certificate. For the orignal yes. Renewal..no. That's pure nonsense.
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I think she meant that you need guarantor if you're doing it by mail, i.e. you can't send your original Driver's license, or birth certificate somebody needs to vertify that you're sending a copy of a real document.
Harem. I don't think that's what she meant. maybe she can clarify.
I renewed my passport and you need a guarantor. They also refused my passport photo because my both ears weren't visible (I had too much hair, or something like that). I did hear somewhere that this stupid policy will be changed soon.
I can guarantor a passport. Send $50 and the documents to me. PM me for the address. Must be cash.
Is that a reference to Sly Stones famous song. " I want to thank you for letting me be mice elf again."
Certainly wasn't my experience.
Maybe it depends on whether you're native born or naturalized.
I'm going to check the website.
Do and it may apply only to people who are applying for a passport out of Canada?
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