Urgent Passport Woes...

[k411]

K, heres the deal...
Today, my brother is looking for his passport because of a vacation leaving thursday morning. After 6 hours of looking everywhere, contacting everyone, no such luck in finding it. Anybody know what the procedure is for a lost or stolen passport is? It was new last febuary, so its still valid, and all that. Is there any chance of getting a like supercourierred-rush-expedited-firstclassed-sentatthespeedoflight passport? Like I mean if we pay extra fee's can it be like expedited or whatever? or is he just SOL? I think he is going to Passport Canada right at opening and going to see what his options are, but does anybody know what happens/been in this situation before? Any help would be GREATLY appreaciated!

[BoostedNihilist]

your best bet is the passport office. I hope for your sake you live in a large centre. It takes two days to get a phone call answered.

That really sucks, your brother might be SOL.

furthermore.. ALWAYS Know where your passport is. If I go three days without SEEING mine I start to go effing nuts

[bmc]

We live abroad. Our daughter lost her passport about a week before returning to Canada. Went to the Canadian Embassy and they sorted it really quickly.

I've gone to the passport office, twice, requiring a passport for travel within 48 hours and had a passport issued within 3 hours. Bring the tickets as proof and they can turn it around very quickly for you. Bring passport photos, and other notarized documents that you need as well. Good luck.

[benoit.baril]

That's right.
Happened to a friend of mine here in Montreal. He went to the passport office & he got it overnight.
Let us know what happens in this case.

Here's what's on their website.
http://www.ppt.gc.ca/

Urgent applications
in Canada

To obtain urgent, express or pick-up services you must apply in person at a Passport Canada office and provide Passport Canada with the additional documentation listed below. Passport Canada will take appropriate action on a case-by-case basis.

Service Fee Details
Urgent CAN$70(1) You must provide proof of travel(2).
Express CAN$30(1) You must provide proof of travel(2).
Pick-up CAN$10(1)

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1 Does not include the passport fee.

2 The acceptable proofs of travel are:

An airline, bus or train ticket;
A travel itinerary, which shows proof of payment;
A written statement, if traveling by car (the validation of the statement is at the Passport Officer's discretion).

Additional services Processing times
Urgent 24 hours

[Just another canuck]

Have everything filled out with absolutely no mistakes. Have your photos and go to the passport office. You have to pay but I think you can get it next day.

[niss]

Actual letter to the Canadian Passport office

Dear Mr. Minister,

I'm in the process of renewing my passport, and still cannot believe this. How is it that Radio Shack has my address and telephone number and knows that I Bought a t.v. cable from them back in 1997, and yet, the Federal Government is still asking me where I was born and on what date. For Christ sakes, do you Guys do this by hand? My birth date you have on my social insurance card, and it is on all the income tax forms I've filed for the past 30 years.

It is on My health insurance card, my driver's license, on the last eight goddamn passports I've had, on all those stupid customs declaration forms I've had to fill Out before being allowed off the planes over the last 30 years, and all those insufferable census forms that are done at election times. Would somebody please Take note, once and for all, that my mother's name is Maryanne, my father's name is Robert and I'd be absolutely astounded if that ever changed between now and When I die!!!!!!

SHIT!

I apologize, Mr. Minister. I'm really pissed off this morning. Between you an' me, I've had enough of this bullshit! You send the application to my house,Then you ask me for my fuckin' address. What is going on? You have a gang of Neanderthal assholes workin' there! Look at my damn picture. Do I look like Bin Laden?

I don't want to dig up Yasser Arafat, for shit sakes. I just want to go and park my ass on a sandy beach. And would someone please tell me, why would you give A shit whether I plan on visiting a farm in the next 15 days? If I ever got the urge to do something weird to a chicken or a goat, believe you me, I'd sure as hell not Want to tell anyone!

Well, I have to go now, 'cause I have to go to the other end of the city and get another fuckin' copy of my birth certificate, to the tune of $60!!! Would it be So complicated to have all the services in the same spot to assist in the issuance of a new passport the same day?? Nooooo, that'd be too damn easy and maybe make sense.

You'd rather have us running all over the fuckin' place like chickens with our heads cut off, then find some asshole to confirm that it's really me on the goddamn Picture - you know, the one where we're not allowed to smile?! (fuckin' morons). Hey, you know why we can't smile? We're totally pissed off!

Signed - An Irate fucking Canadian Citizen.

P.S. Remember what I said above about the picture and getting someone to confirm that it's me? Well, my family has been in this country since 1776 when one of my Forefathers took up arms against the Americans. I have served in the military for something over 30 years and have had security clearances up the yingyang. I was aide de camp to the lieutenant governor of our province for ten years and I have been doing volunteer work for the RCMP for about five years.

However, I have to get someone important' to verify who I am - you know, someone like my doctor WHO WAS BORN AND RAISED IN COMMUNIST fucking CHINA


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[Just another canuck]