Canadian Passport offices are independent operating agencies
governed by the Canadian government and controlled by its Foreign
Affairs department. It has been renamed as Passport Canada recently. The
office holds all the rights for issuing, withholding, recovering as
well as revoking passports.
According to the Canadian Passport new
policies, a simplified renewal process for passports and a guarantor
policy has been put into effect. According to the new guarantor policy,
Travel Visa holders living in Canada as well as the U.S would be allowed
to be named as guarantors in regards of other applications. According
to the new guarantor policy, the following requirements are required to
be fulfilled for gaining eligibility as a guarantor:
o You must have Canadian citizenship and your age should be at least 18 years old.
o
You must be a Canadian passport holder of the five-year term or if it
is expired, not more than 12 months should have passed since then.
o Your age should have been at least 16 years old when the application was made for your passport.
o You should have personally known the passport applicant for two years minimum.
With
the help of databases, verification of eligibility of the guarantor is
done for increasing efficiency and security of the process. According to
the new renewal process, guarantors and citizenship proofs are no more
required for renewal purposes. If you want to apply Canadian passport
renewal in India, application form, present visa, photographs and
immigration documents are required to be submitted.
An online
application can be obtained depending on your age as the application is
different for different ages. You are required to download and print the
application form, complete it with all the necessary information,
attach your photo and get it signed by your guarantor as well as
yourself. This application form can be submitted to various Travel Visa
service locations along with documents supporting your information.
Else, the form and documents can be mailed.
After submitting your application, you may be tempted to know that can you check progress of your Canadian passport application;
the answer is yes. You can anytime visit Passport Canada's website,
fill in the application details and get your passport status. If
considerable time has lapsed after you submitted your application, has
my passport been processed would be the question on your mind.
You can
satisfy this query at the same place where you tracked your application
status. Usually, no more than 7 weeks are required for normal
processing.
According to the Canadian Passport control land
travel, you do not require passport for traveling between Canada and the
U.S as of now but after June, 2009, it will be necessary to have a
passport. Currently, only a proof of identification and citizenship is
required. Canadian passport requirements via US to Trinidad currently
requires you to show up identification and citizenship proofs as well as
proof of passport application which was previously required. A passport
is compulsorily required for Canadians to enter Trinidad.
For this and more Canadian passport and travel information, visit TravelCheckList.info.
