that anyone who has urgent need for a new passport — that is, who has a trip within the next 45 business days — must provide proof of that need in the form of an airline, bus, or train ticket; a travel itinerary with proof of payment; or written proof of a reason for travel, such as a death in the family.
Also, that any individuals with travel within the following 24 to 48 hours will be treated with priority over everyone else. They did, hired extra staff, knowing demands would increase, hired, and trained additional staff when even more were needed. Maybe people should make sure they plan ahead. Lying about trip urgency just blocks those with actual need. Selfish and disrespectfulWith this in mind, people have been coming up with fake reasons for needing a new passport ASAP, up to and including fully booking trips with no intention of actually going on them, simply cancelling them later for a refund or credit.
The practice has become such a trend that Canada's Minister of Families, Children and Social Development has spoken out about it, imploring people not to take this step to skip the wait and saying she's"disappointed" in anyone who opted for this route. I've heard you can book a business class ticket, show it as proof of imminent travel and then cancel it. They're fully refundable. But that would be unethical.
A first world country should not have over 300,000 passport applications in a backlog to start with.
Start providing passports within reasonable time without huge lineups and people won't have to book fake trips
Government: Stop trying to find loopholes in the problems we created.
Do people actually do this or is this the government just blaming the citizens again instead of being accountable for their policies?
Canadian government: ‘Stop using this loophole we gave you!’
Ya, whatever
Totally understandable, people have a right to a passport and out government seems unable to provide in time…
'And please stop jamming up the terminals for your faux outrage videos'
Worked for me...
lol no
'Public asks Government to get their shit together and provide basic services in a timely manner'
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