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Indian passport renewal on sponsorship application

FletcherHubbard

Star Member
Nov 20, 2023
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Happy new year everyone. My common-law partner is indian citizen. She is currently out of status and we have a sponsorship application in process. Her Indian passport is expiring in couple months. There is a possibility that her sponsorship application would get approved before the passport expires but in case the application takes longer, is there anyway to file renewal application for indian passport?
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Thank you.
I don't recall any applicant before specifying they'd had to provide up-to-date passport information (when previous expired) for inland applications.
 
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popoye

Star Member
Sep 7, 2014
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Montreal
Hi,
You can apply for PCC even if you are out of status. They ask for a copy of your expired WP and fee receipt for the PR application that you have applied for under whatever program you qualify for.
 

Shehjad

Newbie
May 3, 2017
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Anybody who is in similar situation, we were able to apply for passport renewal while being out of status. We had to write an email to the Indian consulate requesting for permission to apply for passport renewal. We had to attach AIP(Approval in Principle) with the Principal Applicant name. When filing for the application, we had to print the email reply from the Consulate giving us an approval to apply.

At this time, IRCC does require a valid passport with 12 month validity. We were requested to update the passport just 2 weeks from today.
Hi...
I have a similar sotuation. I applied in January for my spouse and i was in thought that I might not need passport.Turns out I needed to renew. I renewed the passport but could not get on time and my spouse is out of status. Do you know if they were to finalize our application for sponsorship how long do they take once I submit new passport.9