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03-12-2007, 09:31 PM
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Canadian Passport
So the Canadian Govt has really dropped the ball on this one. The normal wait time is 20 business days and it is now over 45.
Anyone *still* waiting for their passport?
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03-13-2007, 01:35 AM
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I just receieved mine last thursday after waiting 6 weeks. I was kind of a different case though because i applied for it back in may '06 from Latvia after losing my passport there. Now, I had sent my temporary and waited for my new permanent. It was actually issued last may in stockholm, the regionaly hub for CAN passports in the baltics. pretty excited though, can finally go about applying for my NZ work visa and figuring out a flight. Hope yours comes soon.
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03-13-2007, 06:26 AM
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Its kinda hard to complain if you've been doing it within the last handful of months. It has probably been the busiest time in Canada's history for getting your passport. Unless you did lose your or it just happened to expire then you can't really complain. Everyone knew they should go get them before the deadline but people don't, and then they get angry at other people for them not having one!
I got mine updated last fall. I went to the Calgary office and it was really busy so I just threw it in the mail. It only took two maybe three weeks. Might have just been luck but it wasn't that bad.
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03-13-2007, 06:38 AM
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Same with down here in the States. I know the wait is now like 5 months in some cases. My friend went to get one the other day and they told her to prepare that it could be up to that long.
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03-13-2007, 06:45 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SuDz
Same with down here in the States. I know the wait is now like 5 months in some cases. My friend went to get one the other day and they told her to prepare that it could be up to that long.
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Haha yeah, I was told 6 weeks to EXPEDITE. And, because mine isn't really expired, they could still reject it and I'm traveling in 10 weeks. Does Canada (or other places for that matter) have passport businesses that do the work for you? I was told I can get mine in 5 days. And the expense compared to the overnight shipping and return shipping fees you would have to add onto the government direct fees is negligible.
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03-13-2007, 10:39 AM
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hahaha, carmella, i wasn't brave enough to book my flight without a passport. hope yours makes it there in time. now i just gotta find a good flight. damn i hate living in buttfuck nowhere.
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04-13-2007, 12:19 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SuDz
Same with down here in the States. I know the wait is now like 5 months in some cases. My friend went to get one the other day and they told her to prepare that it could be up to that long.
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I know the US passport office is backlogged like at least 2 months in mail... that could be a reason why.
People if you renew your passport in Canada, PRINT OUT THE FORMS ONLINE, DO IT AT HOME, AND DROP IT OFF AT THE PASSPORT OFFICE. It saves a loooooot of time!
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04-19-2007, 02:46 PM
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Last time I got my passport was in Brazil. We had travelled to Brazil using our Brazilian passports, but needed out American to get back in. But our parents didn't know that the law had changed after September 11th. Before, if you were getting a passport for a minor, the minor didn't have to be present.
So we had to go to the American Embassy in Salvador, do all the paper work, pay three times the normal price so that the Embassy could send the paperwork to Rio so that Rio could send it to DC so that DC could send the passports to Rio then back to Salvador.
But by the time it got to Salvador, we had moved on to Minas Gerais, so it had to be shipped there.
It was insane. And I look fat in my picture.
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03-13-2007, 06:40 AM
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Mine expired. I went to the Edmonton office on January 8 and the line up was already full at 9am. People were waiting 1.5 days in line. I threw it in the mail. Supposed to take 20 business days. Then I ready its now taking up to 45. If it takes 45 I should have it by this Friday. Cross your fingers. My flight leaves on Wednesday.
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