Pls walk me thru the passport steps....I live in Ontario, born in Que.

[SandraC]

Hi all ~ Okay, what do I do and where do I go for passports?

I live in Mississauga, but I was born in Quebec. My kids, dh and I only have wallet-sized birth certs.

Blessings, Sandra

 

[Torontogal]

Sandra - how did the meeting go today? Wanted to be there but had a car apt.
I too was born in Que and told I needed a new birth certificate. Mine is a paper document and apparently I need to reapply for one from the Quebec gov. Now sure if you know anything about this.

 

[amw]

Hi all ~ Okay, what do I do and where do I go for passports?

I live in Mississauga, but I was born in Quebec. My kids, dh and I only have wallet-sized birth certs.

Blessings, Sandra

Go to Passport Canada's website:
http://www.ppt.gc.ca/index.aspx?lang=e

Print & fill out the forms. You'll need photos, and a guarantor. All the info is on the web.

Don't mail in your forms. Go directly to the office. This will make the process faster. Here is the office for Mississauga (from the website):

Passport Canada (English Only)
Suite 116, 2nd Floor
Central Parkway Mall
377 Burnhamthorpe Road East
Mississauga, ON
Mon-Fri: 8:00 - 16:30

It doesn't matter which province you were born as long as you have your documentation. I too was born in Quebec. You need the official Government birth certificate, not the old church baptismal ones (for anyone born prior to the 90s).

Very simple process. There's just a lot of backlog right now, and I would definitely tell anyone to go to an office even if you had to drive a couple hours.

 

[amw]

I too was born in Que and told I needed a new birth certificate. Mine is a paper document and apparently I need to reapply for one from the Quebec gov. Now sure if you know anything about this.

In the early 90s, the quebec government reissued birth certificates. Up to that point, religious documents were used in Quebec as birth certificates (ie. baptismal records). My "new" birth certificate is a little blue wallet-size piece of paper, very similar to the Ontario ones.

The Cdn gov't won't accept those old church documents anymore so if that is what you have, you do need an official gov't one. I remember crossing the border at Windsor as a student once (1990) with my Quebec baptismal record... boy the questioning looks I got from the American crossing guards. I much prefer to have the new ones... maybe that's why I've always had a passport. I was worried that Americans would look at a Quebec birth certificate and not realize I was Canadian

Just found this "official" information:
Baptismal certificates, birth certificates and marriage certificates issued by the government of Quebec before January 1, 1994 are no longer accepted for issuing a proof of Canadian citizenship. This applies to applications for replacement of your certificate as well as first time applications for certificates. New documents will be required from the government of Quebec for yourself, your child, your parent or your husband to establish proof of citizenship and you must include original or certified copies with your application. For more information on obtaining a valid document, you should contact the office of the Registrar of Civil Status of Quebec by visiting their Web site (www.etatcivil.gouv.qc.ca).

 

[SandraC]

Hi ~ I do have the little laminated wallet sized birth certificate from PQ. I hope that's all I need.

I'll get on it right away. THX S

 

[Torontogal]

Thanks AMW for that info. I wonder if I should get my old birth certificate from La Belle Province replaced.
By the way, since there are so many X-Quebecers on here - where are you from?? I am from the South Shore.

 

[SeanK]

Disney has made a little step by step program to help us Canadian's. Check the link below for infomation on getting a passport

http://adisneyparks.disney.go.com/m...s/EnglishPDFs/PassportInformationandOffer.pdf

 

[SandraC]

I was born in the west end of Montreal....aka "The Point", St. Henry, Point St. Charles.

Then we moved to Ville St. Pierre, LaSalle, Brossard, DDO....

then continued to move to....New York, Winnipeg, Vancover and finally Mississauga.

S

 

[momlady]

I was born in Quebec also and had the old church and hospital certificates. You have to apply and pay for the new ones -- I got both a wallet sized copy and a regular full-page one. You can apply online as well.

Just a comment regarding laminated certificates, though -- if it was issued like that, it's fine, but mine wasn't and if I laminate it, it's no longer valid. Hubby laminated his (Ontario) birth cert to make it hold up longer and it delayed his passport application until we could get a new one from the Ontario gov't. They would not accept it! I know on his it says right on it that laminating it makes it invalid.

Now we are all passported and counting the days until we hit California!

 

[amw]

Hi ~ I do have the little laminated wallet sized birth certificate from PQ. I hope that's all I need.

I'll get on it right away. THX S

That's all you need -- I only had the wallet-sized one too. Like another poster mentioned, it shouldn't be laminated. It came in a plastic envelope thingie that's not sealed so you can pull the paper out.

I came from Pierrefonds, but we moved to TO when I was 6 so I guess I'm not that Quebecoise