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Sarah Byron was shocked to learn her Canadian passport will soon be useless to enter the United Kingdom. As a dual British Canadian citizen living in Montreal who emigrated to Canada in the 1970s, she has regularly travelled back to England at least once a year. But under new U.K. …

दो पैन कार्ड मामले में सात साल की सजा काट रहे पूर्व विधायक अब्दुल्ला आजम को शुक्रवार को दो पासपोर्ट मामले में भी सात साल की कैद व पचास हजार रुपये जुर्माना अदा करने की सजा सुनाई गई है। गवाहों की लंबी चौड़ी फौज भी सपा के पूर्व विधायक अब्दुल्ला …

A London, Ont., woman says Purolator lost her former Indian passport while it was en route to a consulate office in Brampton, and after months of not being able to locate it, the courier service closed her case and offered her a $100 Amazon gift card for the inconvenience. Jaya Chevendra, 62, …

As It Happens7:05Trump passport policy a ‘fundamental rejection of my identity’ says transgender plaintiff Ash Lazarus Orr, a transgender man from West Virginia, has filed a federal lawsuit challenging U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order that recognizes male and female as the only two sexes on government documents.  This order has …

The federal government plans to open four new passport pickup locations nationally as it struggles to manage lengthy wait times and backlogs that have plagued the application process for months now. The new application and pickup service will be available in Trois-Rivières, Que.; Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.; Charlottetown, P.E.I.; and Red …

If you’ve applied for a passport this year — or put it off because of the hours-long queues outside Canada’s passport offices — you might have wondered why it’s suddenly so hard to get hold of one of those little blue books. The federal government blames a sudden surge in passport applications, …

A prominent Chinese human rights scholar working in Vancouver says her career and personal safety are at risk because of an expired passport and delays in Canada’s immigration system. Guldana Salimjan is a postdoctoral fellow at Simon Fraser University, who also directs the University of British Columbia’s Xinjiang Documentation Project, …

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is promising to do more to fix what he calls an “unacceptable” state of affairs at the country’s passport offices that have been overwhelmed in recent days as thousands of Canadians scramble to get their hands on the necessary documents before travelling abroad. Speaking to CBC Radio’s The …

Marie Soulier has spent four straight days standing in line outside the passport office at Montreal’s Guy-Favreau complex, waiting to collect her passport. She arrives at 5:30 each morning and leaves when the office closes. She is still waiting, and her flight leaves for France tonight. She is just one …

COPENHAGEN: Denmark is developing a digital “vaccine passport” for people who have received a Covid-19 vaccine, a move that may enable them to travel to countries where such documentation is required during the pandemic. “It is expected that there may be requirements from other countries to present vaccine documentation upon …