Passport certified true copy

[Shadow8982]

Hello all,

I’m posting again since no one seems to have seen my other thread. I’m sponsoring my partner through inland common law sponsorship. He’s from Panama so they require government certified true copies of documents issued from there. This appears to include his passport.

Does anyone have any experience with this either from Panama or another country with this requirement in terms of what we need to do to get this. Do we need to get it to Panama to get this certified or apostilled or something? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks

 

[ERCAN]

Hello all,

I’m posting again since no one seems to have seen my other thread. I’m sponsoring my partner through inland common law sponsorship. He’s from Panama so they require government certified true copies of documents issued from there. This appears to include his passport.

Does anyone have any experience with this either from Panama or another country with this requirement in terms of what we need to do to get this. Do we need to get it to Panama to get this certified or apostilled or something? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks

Normally IRCC do not require certified true copies unless specifically requested. Are you sure about it? Can you provide exact wording in the documentation or checklist you are referring to?

I suspect you are referring to certified translations... this simply means that the translation is made by a commercial translator. This can be any commercial translator located in any country. The certification in that case means that this translator appends his credentials and contact info at the end of translation.

 

[Shadow8982]

Normally IRCC do not require certified true copies unless specifically requested. Are you sure about it? Can you provide exact wording in the documentation or checklist you are referring to?

I suspect you are referring to certified translations... this simply means that the translation is made by a commercial translator. This can be any commercial translator located in any country. The certification in that case means that this translator appends his credentials and contact info at the end of translation.

Thanks for your reply!

I don’t think I can post a screenshot in here, but the exact wording is: “official documents issued by this country must be government-certified true copies (copies certified as authentic by the government office that issued them, signed and stamped with a seal).”

On the list of country specific includes passports, birth/marriage certificates, identification cards, etc. We have his birth certificate that was apostilled in Panama. I just don’t know what to do about his passport. I thought the embassy in Canada could do it but they are confusing me. I’m not even certain is an apostille is what it’s asking for since it seems they just want to make sure the copy is accurate

 

[ERCAN]

Hmm, interesting. I checked the requirements for Panama and it's different from what I've seen before.

I normally would treat any uncertainty against me, so I would recommend to go to the embassy and certify any government document you must submit.

However, my guess is that the passport used for international travel should most likely be accepted without additional certification. It's already an internationally recognised document after all... thus I would not have it certified.

 

[armoured]

Hmm, interesting. I checked the requirements for Panama and it's different from what I've seen before.

I normally would treat any uncertainty against me, so I would recommend to go to the embassy and certify any government document you must submit.

However, my guess is that the passport used for international travel should most likely be accepted without additional certification. It's already an internationally recognised document after all... thus I would not have it certified.

I agree with this. Since passports must have (I think) one of English or French in original , certified copies generally not required of the bio page. If Panama has a different requirement, I'm not aware of it. YMMV.

 

[Shadow8982]

I agree with this. Since passports must have (I think) one of English or French in original , certified copies generally not required of the bio page. If Panama has a different requirement, I'm not aware of it. YMMV.

Okay thank you both for giving opinions. I finally got a hold of someone from the IRCC and I guess it’s up to the officer who reviews the case. She said to submit what we have though so I think that I will make the copy at the consulate and hopefully everything will be okay. Thank you both for helping me feel a bit better about this lol