Do I only copy my current passport or old ones too?

[Lemondrop78]

I have a new passport and haven't gone on a trip with it yet. Do I just copy the page w/my photo and info or all the pages and also old passports? And same question for my husband who is the permanent resident applicant.

 

[Fencesitter]

That's what I would like to know, too. Nothing is specified in the China region guide...it just states to provide a "complete copy of sponsor's passport". I don't even know why they need that?? It's such a waste of paper and ink!

Anyone know?? Is it only the current passport? And if you know this info, how do you know??? Where did you find out?

FS

 

[Isometry]

That's what I would like to know, too. Nothing is specified in the China region guide...it just states to provide a "complete copy of sponsor's passport". I don't even know why they need that?? It's such a waste of paper and ink!

Anyone know?? Is it only the current passport? And if you know this info, how do you know??? Where did you find out?

FS

PROOF OF RELATIONSHIP TO SPONSOR
If you are being sponsored by your spouse, common-law partner or conjugal partner, you must
send evidence of the relationship between you and your sponsor such as:
• wedding/engagement photos and/or photos of outings;
• letters between you and your sponsor (including postmarked envelopes);
• printed e-mails, chat records or telephone bills;
• proof of your sponsor's visits such as airline ticket coupons, used boarding passes, complete
photocopy of all pages of your sponsor's passport;
• proof of financial support from your sponsor; and
• any other documents that you feel would demonstrate your relationship to your sponsor

Looks like it's optional if you're using it as proof of relationship, but not optional if you're using it as an identity document proving that you qualify to sponsor your wife. Since you're living with your wife currently, proof that you visited before you lived with her becomes less important.

Remember that everything listed there is examples. You do not have to include every item on that list, and may include things that are not listed.

 

[missmini]

that's Buffalo's checklist which is the one Lemondrop's using....but Fencesitter will b using the Hong-Kong / China one :-X

 

[Isometry]

That came from http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/pdf/kits/guides/3903e.pdf , which I think is the China regional guide?


I should add, if you're talking about the passport as an identity document, they require

A photocopy of the bio-data page of your passport with a validity of at least 18 months.

Not every page.

 

[Fencesitter]

Thanks.

Actually, the China region guide (document checklist) states the following:

PROOF OF RELATIONSHIP TO SPONSOR
If you are being sponsored by your spouse, common-law partner or conjugal partner, you must
send evidence of the relationship between you and your sponsor such as:
•wedding/engagement photos and/or photos of outings;
•letters between you and your sponsor (including postmarked envelopes);
•printed e-mails, chat records or telephone bills;
•proof of your sponsor's visits such as airline ticket coupons, used boarding passes, complete photocopy of all pages of your sponsor's passport;
•proof of financial support from your sponsor; and
•any other documents that you feel would demonstrate your relationship to your sponsor.

I've already copied all pages of my current passport...so I'm sending it...as well as the bio-date page of my last passport with visas and stamps...that's all I'm sending...this is costing a lot in printer ink!!!

FS

 

[awor]

For Buffalo, it's just the bio-data page. When you get PPR, you will likely have to send a copy of every page (blank ones too) to the VO (in place of the passport).

 

[mobeyk]

Or you just copy the pages that have stamps on it and your bio data and add a statement that you assure the other pages are empty and you sign it.

 

[Isometry]

Yep.

Proof of relationship such as proof of visitssuch as passport photocopies... it won't hurt to send it, but everything on that list is just examples of good proofs of relationship.

Also, both of you (Fencesitter and Lemondrop) need to stop worrying so much!

 

[Fencesitter]

I'll stop worrying when I'm dead...even then...I'll probably worry... ;D

Thanks, though...appreciated!

FS

 

[missmini]

Also, both of you (Fencesitter and Lemondrop) need to stop worrying so much!

best advice ever!!!!! but Fencesitter, loooooooool ;D ;D

 

[Lemondrop78]

So if you're not doing it as a proof of relationship then you only need to send the bio data page? I'm still a bit confused...my current passport has no stamps or anything...should I make a copy of my old one? I only have about an hour before I leave and send my application! lol. Thanks for putting up w/my questions! I'm going to be paranoid until I send it...maybe even after, but hopefully not. ???

 

[canadianwoman]

I don't think, given your long relationship and how much evidence you have already, that you need to add copies of your old passports. You have lots of other proof in the application that you two were living together in the USA, right?
I would only include pages with matching entry and exit stamps if you two went on a trip somewhere together.

 

[Lemondrop78]

I ended up copying our old passports w/ pages of only the ones that are stamped.