Originally Posted by
GUWonder
With regard to the US, there is the $150 file search approach when needing to apply for another US passport but not having current evidence of US citizenship on hand to do so. Canada has something akin to that, but a Canadian passport-seeking applicant may still at times need to get a Canadian citizenship certificate following that and prior to passport application. And the Canadian government has a website that says it takes approximately 15 months from application to get that certificate when applying in the US or Canada.
About potential consequences for reporting a passport as lost/stolen, if it happens multiple times, additional restrictions could hit when applying again; and even if it only happens once, it could result in being subject to slowdowns at passport control over identity verification concerns because of the possible misuse of the reported passport or other identity documents for a person with that name or even a relatively close name to that in the reported passport. For example, one of my relatives has never had a lost/stolen passport; however, because someone else — of a different nationality at that — with much the same name had reported a passport as lost/stolen, arrivals at some Schengen ports of entry when coming on trips from the US and Canada thereafter meant some slowdowns for a couple of months because of the common name elements.
Appreciate the insight. I suppose that makes sense with reporting the passport....just never thought that beyond having the passport in question essentially 'canceled', that it could have other effects.
And correct with Canada - you can now renew your passport as an adult, which makes it way easier than it has been in the past (for the record, until about 5 or so years ago, even adults could not 'renew' a passport - it was like applying for it from scratch everytime), but with a child's passport, there isn't that option. You have to send in the original copy of proof of citizenship - either birth certificate issued in Canada, which we don't have since our daughter was born in Ohio, or the Citizenship certificate. Why we can't send in a notarized copy is beyond me (and why they can't look it up in their system - it's all the gov't, after all - is beyond me). I'm glad it's been located. 15 months is a long time to get the proof of citizenship, and since you are supposed to send in previous travel doc (ie, passport), I assume there is no option to not report it lost if it was. I was told by the US consulate phone number that I could put a letter in with a replacement citizenship certificate application requesting prioritized status, but apparently that is all up to IRCC if they will/won't accept it, and even at that, I'm not clear what the 'prioritized' wait time is - IIRC, even pre-COVID the processing times for citizenship certificates was long - we would have applied for my younger daughter sometime in 2018, and I think it was still 6 or 8 months at that point.
Originally Posted by
Section 107
thx, missed that. If the NEXUS card was issued as a US citizen then it wont help in this situation. If it was issued as a Canadian citizen then it could help.
I forget what her Nexus card says - she had both passports at application time, but not sure what it says. I believe mine says 'US' - I'm also dual-citizen though living in Canada at the initial time of application way back when NEXUS started (and even had CanPass prior - I think that was back in 2004 or so).