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Another passport application from the US, new (not a renewal / PPTC 153) (sibling) Sent via UPS Worldwide Express 1st May 2024 Delivered to Gaitneau 9th May 2024 Credit Card Charged 21st May 2024 (+8 business days) Approved/Mailed 28th May 2024 (+8 business days) Delivery via FedEex scheduled...

Sent from New York State (USA): Friday 26 April 2024 Delivered in Gaitneau (UPS Worldwide Express): Monday 29 April 2024 (+1 business day) Credit card charged: Friday 10th May 2024 (+9 business days) Approved/Mailed (via FedEx express) on online status tracker: Friday 24th May 2024 (+10 business...

If you apply in person to pick up the passport in Canada, it's $100 cheaper (assuming you go for a 10 year passport, $160 applying within Canada, $260 if applying from/mailed to the USA). Expediting for urgent pickup (by end of the next business day) is $110... so would cost you $10 more to...

The data page is similar to the US NextGen passport and the New York Driver License/State ID - it's laser etched polycarbonate. Some lament the lack of color, but it's extremely secure, tamper proof (you can't mess with existing identification to alter it), and incorporates advanced security...

My pic of the new design is just front and back of the cover together. It's still the classic passport size. Most of the objection to the new design comes with the reduction of the size of the coat of arms and the reduction of color especially the photo on the bio page being black & white.

New: Old:

One thing that is forgotten is to never forget the speed of bureaucracy. Canada was supposed to have online passport renewal by now, it's still missing in action with no updated time of arrival. (Not a jab at Canada - online passport renewal was 5+ years in the US, and even in the US it was a...

Father's passport application (take two after photo rejection): Sent from New York State (USA): Friday 26 April 2024 Delivered in Gaitneau (UPS Worldwide Express): Monday 29 April 2024 (+1 business day) Credit card charged: Friday 10th May 2024 (+9 business days) No email from the Canadian...

Do you have a CVS nearby? CVS uses the KODAK Moments biometric system which automatically sizes and verifies for the photo for compliance before printing (no glare if eyeglasses are present, uniform background, etc.) based on the destination country. It's $17 for two photos, and two extras for...

So with no status tracker after more than 10 business days I waited through the phone queue (twice...after a disconnect) 160+ people deep with my father conferenced in (the passport program will only talk to the person the passport is being issued for)... A rep asked him some basic information...

Still no update on my father's application. Status tracker turns up zilch, no emails, credit card not charged. Filled out the form to inquire about status yesterday, will update when I hear back...

None yet. Technically their standard for mail-in applications is 10 business days and this past Friday 2/16 is 9 business days. If I don't have anything in my email by Monday morning I'll reach out to inquire about the status of my father's application. (He's first generation Canadian, I'm the...

Mailed from NY: 27 Jan 2024 Delivered (Gatineau, QC passport program mailing address, actual delivery to Ottawa ON): 5 Feb 2024 Rest TBD Checking reddit, this is apparently incredibly common, passport applications are marked as being delivered to Ottawa and then taken to Gaitneau (which is...

Pretty similar for my brother, except he applied from the US (thus no embassy) Mailed: 5 July 2018 from the US to Sydney NS Received by IRCC: 12 July 2018 AOR: August 8th, 2018 (19 business days/27 days later) And no further updates since (28 business days/18 days later).

I don't know what the exact display is for the US CBP officers at land crossings, but I do know that both citizenships show up when it's loaded up at a NEXUS office on the CBP computer. At YYZ Terminal 1 NEXUS office the officers have a US CBP computer to the left and a Canadian CBSA computer to...