Fiancée lost her Citizenship and Passport in Dominican

[Hyru]

My Fiancee, who is a Canadian citizen, was in Dominican visiting her family when she lost her Canadian passport and citizenship, and all other important documents.
She went to the Canadian Embassy over there, and they're telling her it will take 3 months (!!!!!!!!!!) to get her citizenship back, and afterwards, another 3 weeks to get her passport. All in all, about 4 months!

This is ridiculous.

What can be done? If she was in Canada, this would be an easy step... simply go to the Passport office. But because she is abroad, this seems rather difficult.

Ideas/Suggestions?

Thanks

 

[DAN11]

My Fiancee, who is a Canadian citizen, was in Dominican visiting her family when she lost her Canadian passport and citizenship, and all other important documents.
She went to the Canadian Embassy over there, and they're telling her it will take 3 months (!!!!!!!!!!) to get her citizenship back, and afterwards, another 3 weeks to get her passport. All in all, about 4 months!

This is ridiculous.

What can be done? If she was in Canada, this would be an easy step... simply go to the Passport office. But because she is abroad, this seems rather difficult.

Ideas/Suggestions?

Thanks

If she was in Canada it could have taken around the same time based on how CIC operating these days. You can check the website to see whats the processing times to obtained proof of citizenship. The passport has its options such as express as well as regular services, yet you would need to obtain the citizenship certificate to get that passport.

She lost 2 of the important documents and as such it will take time to go through her status thoroughly. If she remembers her client ID. and have a Canadian ID. that could have speed up the process.

 

[Hyru]

Is there any way of getting her into Canada at all?

 

[paw339]

Can she get a local passport in Dominican to travel and then try and use some other document eg landing papers etc to get into canada?

 

[janoo]

Hi.. My son lost the passport and citizenship card. Is you or your wife have
passport copy or citizenship card copy if so than it is easy Canadian
Embassy will issue the paper for travel and than when she reached Canada she
can apply for complete new documents.

 

[Hyru]

Can she get a local passport in Dominican to travel and then try and use some other document eg landing papers etc to get into canada?

She can probably get a passport in Dominican (shes born there), but how does everything else work?
She gets on a plane with a dominican passport, stops in the U.S (no direct flights to Canada), and then arrives in Canada. When she gets here with a Dominican passport, what will they say at the airport? Can she just say "Im a Canadian citizen" and thats it?

What are "landing papers" ?

 

[Hyru]

Hi.. My son lost the passport and citizenship card. Is you or your wife have
passport copy or citizenship card copy if so than it is easy Canadian
Embassy will issue the paper for travel and than when she reached Canada she
can apply for complete new documents.

Can you explain this a bit more please.
I have a copy of her old passport (she renewed just last week).
Where does she take this? The Canadian Embassy in Dominican?

They said 3 months without the document, but will it make any difference at all?

 

[DAN11]

Is there any way of getting her into Canada at all?

The embassy over there should be able to issue a temporary travel document - Its strange how that process will take that long, did you submit anything to the embassy for them to start the process?

 

[Hyru]

The embassy over there should be able to issue a temporary travel document - Its strange how that process will take that long, did you submit anything to the embassy for them to start the process?

They've provided her with the necessary documents to fill out in order to obtain her Citizenship card. They said this will take 3 months. After she gets that, she can apply to get her Passport, which will take 3 weeks.
I dont think anyone has brought up a temporary travel document at all.

She can request that and use that to get back into Canada?

 

[Hyru]

Quick update on this

Apparently the embassy is saying you can apply for a temporary passport, but only after you apply to get your citizenship back.

The timeframe they gave is this:

1 month after application for citizenship you can apply for temporary passport with proof of ticket purchase

3 weeks after showing proof of purchase, you'll be given temporary passport

This doesn't make sense to me. You don't even get the citizenship after 1 month, so why would u have to wait 1 month to apply for temporary passport? And 3 weeks to wait for a temporary passport? Really?

 

[h3a3j6]

My Fiancee, who is a Canadian citizen, was in Dominican visiting her family when she lost her Canadian passport and citizenship, and all other important documents.
She went to the Canadian Embassy over there, and they're telling her it will take 3 months (!!!!!!!!!!) to get her citizenship back, and afterwards, another 3 weeks to get her passport. All in all, about 4 months!

This is ridiculous.

What can be done? If she was in Canada, this would be an easy step... simply go to the Passport office. But because she is abroad, this seems rather difficult.

Ideas/Suggestions?

Thanks

Something doesn't sound right. You can't lose your "citizenship" in a country. Do you mean "proof" or citizenship?

I'd suggest you apply for an emergency passport, provide them with a copy of the old passport, a certificate from the police if the old one was stolen and reported in addition to any proof you can provide (Driver's license, healthcare card, etc...)

 

[DAN11]

Quick update on this

Apparently the embassy is saying you can apply for a temporary passport, but only after you apply to get your citizenship back.

The timeframe they gave is this:

1 month after application for citizenship you can apply for temporary passport with proof of ticket purchase

3 weeks after showing proof of purchase, you'll be given temporary passport

This doesn't make sense to me. You don't even get the citizenship after 1 month, so why would u have to wait 1 month to apply for temporary passport? And 3 weeks to wait for a temporary passport? Really?

Thats the temporary travel document i was referring to. Remember their computer system is all linked up so if the embassy say so, thats how it is once its someone there who knows what they talking about. In future tell her theres no need to travel with passport and citizenship card, theres no need to. If she had left her citizenship card at her canada home it would have been much easier for the embassy. I dont see why she was travelling with the citizenship card.

 

[Hyru]

Something doesn't sound right. You can't lose your "citizenship" in a country. Do you mean "proof" or citizenship?

I'd suggest you apply for an emergency passport, provide them with a copy of the old passport, a certificate from the police if the old one was stolen and reported in addition to any proof you can provide (Driver's license, healthcare card, etc...)

Yes, her proof of citizenship... not actual

I'll have to mail out her old passport asap... She has a report from the police over there. Hopefully with these 2, she'll be able to come home sooner.

 

[wd1]

I'm sorry but looks like your girlfriend is planing for longer holidays.

 

[Pda]

After hearing the whole story and different people feedback i dont understand why one has to prove his identity as a citizen of certain country. Technically you cant be nationality less. Especially country like india where you surrender your citizenship to acquire canadian citizenship. What if you are stuck at airport and lost passport where will you go if not your country of citizenship. I feel this is unfair to judge a persons identity with a piece of document. A citizen is a citizen for life not on adoc basis and on mercy of citizenship papers. Everything should be taken care real time as mentioned all the data should be in system and fetched by passport office immediately