Certified Copies-Instructions to Applicants
Follow these steps to include certified photocopies of your identification with your application to the Office or Reconsideration:
- Take originals of two valid pieces of government-issued identification that support your identity along with your application to an official who is authorized to certify your documents as true copies.
- Attach the certified photocopies to your application. Please do not send us your original documents.
Acceptable Identification
The following are examples of government-issued identification that are accepted with your application to the Passenger Protect Recourse Office:
- Driver's license
- Birth certificate
- Provincial/Territorial Government Identification Cards (GIC)
- Citizenship card
- Permanent Resident card
- Passport
- Immigration documents issued to foreign nationals (Work Permit, Study Permit, Visitor Record, Temporary Resident Permit, Refugee Approved Status)
- Record of Landing Form / Confirmation of Permanent Residence (IMM 5292)
Acceptable Certifying Officials
Certification by one of the following is acceptable provided that the person is a registered member of his or her professional association at the time the certification is done:
- Judge, magistrate
- Justice of the peace
- Lawyer (member of a provincial bar association)
- Notary (in Quebec)
- Mayor
- Notary public
- Police officer (municipal, provincial or RCMP)
- Commissioner of oaths-provided that they have an official government agency appointment and a seal or stamp
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