Canadian Passport - Mail-In Application Timelines

[xieyixy1231]

Good they send the passports Xpresspost. The certificates came with the same envelopes as the passports, or different? As far as I know they send them separately.

I received them in the same envelope.

 

[xieyixy1231]

It doesn't get delivered to your mailbox?

Nah, left a notice in my mailbox.

 

[yaacoub89]

Thanks for sharing. I think that the whole application process is ridiculously long und unjustified. How in the world it can take more than 40 days just to verify docs and print a passport? Gross inefficiency and blunt incompetency from passport office. Some walkins got they passport in couple of days. No system, no fairness, no nothing.

yep yep i was not thinking the passport Canada have such slow bad service, i was in urgent processing my application took more than 25 days and no passport from them called transferred the file to a local office went and paid fees the lady said come tomorrow well what??? you can print it now it takes 2 min, i returned again the next day for her and she said they did not printed the passport yet let me check in the back she went inside and printed my passport and returned within like 5 min like for god sake why you did not do this yesterday it took you 5 min to do it, and instead you told me to waist my time and come again next day, finally i am away from them for the next 10 years. i forgot to tell they kept my certificate with them for 2 weeks i panicked they may lose it or misplace it or the agent who worked on my file messed up the whole thing i called them many times and filed complaint finally after lot of wait time and stress they return it to me and i am 300% sure if i did not ask about it i will wait for 3 months without certificate and they will lose it.

 

[Tihompra01]

Still waiting for my child's passport since application delivered in Gatineau on December 30th 2021

Wow

 

[Tihompra01]

Hi guys, finally my waiting journey is over. Today I received my passport and citizenship certificate both together in the same envelope.

My timeline is

Application sent Jan 10, 2022 from Mississauga to Gatineau

Application received Jan 12, 2022

E status requested Jan 26, application received in process

E status requested Feb 11 , application still in process

status requested by call Feb 16 , application approved, in printing

E status requested Feb 21, application approved will be mailed shortly

Passport and citizenship certificate received- Feb 23, 2022

Exact 43 days

Good luck to all.

Don’t panic if you forgot to write your name on the back side of photo where guarantor signed as I also forgot the same. No Enquiry made to my guarantor or references.

Always make sure that guarantor sign each page of the photocopy.

All the best once again. Just Be patient

 

[CaBeaver]

Hi guys, finally my waiting journey is over. Today I received my passport and citizenship certificate both together in the same envelope.

My timeline is

Application sent Jan 10, 2022

Application received Jan 12, 2022

E status requested Jan 26, application received in process

E status requested Feb 11 , application still in process

status requested by call Feb 16 , application approved, in printing

E status requested Jan 21, application approved will be mailed shortly

Passport and citizenship certificate received- Feb 23, 2022

Exact 43 days

It's VERY long. They say 25 business days, which is roughly 30 calendar days. Also noticed that they started to send the passport and certificate together. Maybe they changed their strategy since they send them using Xpresspost. I guess this is better than waiting for the certificate for another 2 weeks.

 

[Tihompra01]

It's VERY long. They say 25 business days, which is roughly 30 calendar days. Also noticed that they started to send the passport and certificate together. Maybe they changed their strategy since they send them using Xpresspost. I guess this is better than waiting for the certificate for another 2 weeks.

Yes certainly not 25 business days, frankly I was mentally prepared for a month in the beginning but then I realized that it’s taking extra 10-15 days. Not sure why? May be protests or shortage of staff or backlog.

 

[CaBeaver]

Yes certainly not 25 business days, frankly I was mentally prepared for a month in the beginning but then I realized that it’s taking extra 10-15 days. Not sure why? May be protests or shortage of staff or backlog.

I thought when I was done with the oath I won't have to wait. I was wrong. The wait is in all stages even after the oath

 

[tgman]

I thought when I was done with the oath I won't have to wait. I was wrong. The wait is in all stages even after the oath

This is a ridiculous system of sucking our hard earned money without providing any slight resemblance of service.

 

[shazahsan]

Bureaucracy at its finest. You wait weeks for one branch of the government to mail you your citizenship certificate, only to mail it back to another branch of the government and wait another few weeks. I get that having these redundancies helps in verification and security, but at some point it's at the cost of inefficiency and inconvenience. They already have our citizenship status in their systems, it should suffice as proof of citizenship to generate a passport. Also, an option to receive the first passport automatically when granted citizenship should exist if you choose the option, they could request the passport application form be submitted when invited for oath. I'm pretty sure a lot of the process can be optimized without compromising security and integrity of the status of Canadian Citizenship. The private sector is able to do so.

 

[abdisarockstar]

Thanks for sharing. I'm pretty sure it's not only passport services are so lousy, the whole government bureaucracy is an inefficient, hypocritical, racist, inept system. Period. They are so lazy and with a sense of entitlement and superiority like they know how hard is it to come here and work your way up. They are acting like they do us (immigrants) favor. F...ks. I can't wait to get my passport and just like you said try not to deal with them for another 10 years.

lol who hurt you brah? Lots of immigrants too work for the government.

 

[rushabh.patel208]

The only way the guarantor to know your exact height is by you telling them. Passport Canada should know this. I think as long as the height your guarantor gave is close, that should be OK. As for the eyes colors, again if they gave close description that's OK. This requirement is silly to be honest to expect someone else to know you that well. Even couples living together sometimes don't know this much details about each others.

Very true said. I don't know why the heck they ask for these silly details.

 

[xieyixy1231]

yep yep i was not thinking the passport Canada have such slow bad service, i was in urgent processing my application took more than 25 days and no passport from them called transferred the file to a local office went and paid fees the lady said come tomorrow well what??? you can print it now it takes 2 min, i returned again the next day for her and she said they did not printed the passport yet let me check in the back she went inside and printed my passport and returned within like 5 min like for god sake why you did not do this yesterday it took you 5 min to do it, and instead you told me to waist my time and come again next day, finally i am away from them for the next 10 years. i forgot to tell they kept my certificate with them for 2 weeks i panicked they may lose it or misplace it or the agent who worked on my file messed up the whole thing i called them many times and filed complaint finally after lot of wait time and stress they return it to me and i am 300% sure if i did not ask about it i will wait for 3 months without certificate and they will lose it.

yup, why not just charge a bit more from the citizenship application, and just send us citizenship certificate and the passport together once we take the oath. No point of applying multiple times for different stuff basically meaning the same thing.

 

[UnBip]

yup, why not just charge a bit more from the citizenship application, and just send us citizenship certificate and the passport together once we take the oath. No point of applying multiple times for different stuff basically meaning the same thing.

IRCC already struggles enough with not much. I don't think adding the passport creation in the queue would be wise.
I think most of us is tired and exhausted after the years waiting for the entire citizenship process to finish but the passport process doesn't seem that bad.

 

[c.cruz91]

I'll be mailing my application soon. quick question: Do I need to send IRCC a return envelope with a tracking number for them to send me my passport and my documents back?