passport request Bogota

[will0624]

hello I am sponsoring my wife from Colombia and we received the email for the request of her passport we have planned a trip to the USA in december and the plan was to stay for about a month, now that we received the request we thought we could mail the passport from the USA to the Bogota VO and prepay the return mail, so she can come straight to canada from the USA, but some people are now telling us that she personally needs to go pick up the passport. If someone could please help me with this I would really appreciate it.

P.S. she did not get asked for an interview.

 

[Alurra71]

I don't have any personal experience on whether she would need to pick up her passport in person, but don't you think sending her passport to her home country while visiting another country for only a month kind of leaves her in a lurch?

What happens if they still have her passport 2 months later? She certainly can not return to Canada without it, and now she is in the US illegally with no passport.

I don't think it is a wise idea for you to send her passport to Bogota while on vacation. That is just inviting trouble.