Hello All,
I am not sure if this is the correct place to post my question, so apologize if it it's not. In a nutshell, I have been a Canadian citizen for 6 years now, have applied for my first Canadian passport more than 5 years ago and the passport has expired 3 months ago.
I was filling out my renewal passport application a few days ago and going through all my immigration and citizenship documents when I suddenly realized that there might be mistake with the place of birth (i.e. the city) on my expired passport, something I had not realized until then! This is because I was born in a tiny country of which I am not a citizen. The country is so small that people usually refer to the country as their place of birth (never to the city since a city by their standard is more of a neighbourhood). Moreover, all birth certificates issued from this country (and my country of origin) including my international passport just refer to the country (not the city).
Because of that, I inadvertently referred to the capital of the country as the place of birth in my first Canadian passport application. Nevertheless, when I checked my confirmation of permanent residence (COPR) a few days ago, I was shocked to find out that I had been wrong about my city of birth! This made me remember how in my immigration application 11 years ago, I had asked my dad (now deceased) about my city of birth (since none of my documents referred to it), and he gave me that weird name which I included in the immigration application (and which is on COPR) only to forget about it afterwards!
I am not sure now what to do about my new passport. Should I bring this up and try to change the city of birth to the correct one (and take my COPR as evidence) in my new passport? Or do I just ignore it and continue to refer to the capital city? The latter option is probably the easiest but I am uncomfortable doing this since I now know this is not correct. To make matters worse, I called CIC to double check what they had for place of birth and was surprised to learn they had the capital city not the weird one there!!! I am not sure how this can be when my COPR has the weird city on it!
So basically now, if I change my place of birth on my passport, I will need to first change it with CIC (which is a long drawn out process). I realize this all sounds bizarre but it's exactly how this has unfolded. I have never been asked about the city of birth (nor had to document it) until I came to Canada which has created this whole mess! I am also worried that if I do change my city of birth on the new passport, that this may raise questions/ suspicions when I travel (in airports and such)!
So what do I do? Any suggestions/ advice would be mostly appreciated.
Thanks,
Seldom
I am not sure if this is the correct place to post my question, so apologize if it it's not. In a nutshell, I have been a Canadian citizen for 6 years now, have applied for my first Canadian passport more than 5 years ago and the passport has expired 3 months ago.
I was filling out my renewal passport application a few days ago and going through all my immigration and citizenship documents when I suddenly realized that there might be mistake with the place of birth (i.e. the city) on my expired passport, something I had not realized until then! This is because I was born in a tiny country of which I am not a citizen. The country is so small that people usually refer to the country as their place of birth (never to the city since a city by their standard is more of a neighbourhood). Moreover, all birth certificates issued from this country (and my country of origin) including my international passport just refer to the country (not the city).
Because of that, I inadvertently referred to the capital of the country as the place of birth in my first Canadian passport application. Nevertheless, when I checked my confirmation of permanent residence (COPR) a few days ago, I was shocked to find out that I had been wrong about my city of birth! This made me remember how in my immigration application 11 years ago, I had asked my dad (now deceased) about my city of birth (since none of my documents referred to it), and he gave me that weird name which I included in the immigration application (and which is on COPR) only to forget about it afterwards!
I am not sure now what to do about my new passport. Should I bring this up and try to change the city of birth to the correct one (and take my COPR as evidence) in my new passport? Or do I just ignore it and continue to refer to the capital city? The latter option is probably the easiest but I am uncomfortable doing this since I now know this is not correct. To make matters worse, I called CIC to double check what they had for place of birth and was surprised to learn they had the capital city not the weird one there!!! I am not sure how this can be when my COPR has the weird city on it!
So basically now, if I change my place of birth on my passport, I will need to first change it with CIC (which is a long drawn out process). I realize this all sounds bizarre but it's exactly how this has unfolded. I have never been asked about the city of birth (nor had to document it) until I came to Canada which has created this whole mess! I am also worried that if I do change my city of birth on the new passport, that this may raise questions/ suspicions when I travel (in airports and such)!
So what do I do? Any suggestions/ advice would be mostly appreciated.
Thanks,
Seldom