Cheesed off!!
I recently reapplied for a renewal of my Canadian passport. Today my documents arrived back - and they've denied my application because I had a chartered accountant sign as my guarantor and that isn't one of the listed professions accepted.
These are the listed professions:
Dentist
Judge
Practising lawyer
Magistrate
Mayor
Medical doctor
Notary public
Police officer
Signing officer of a bank
Obviously I didn't see this list before I asked my accountant to sign my forms.... but what really cheeses me off is that if I was renewing IN Canada or even America, I could get ANYONE to sign it, as long as they'd known me for at least 2 years. It's all a bunch of bureaucratic bull****!!!!
These are the listed professions:
Dentist
Judge
Practising lawyer
Magistrate
Mayor
Medical doctor
Notary public
Police officer
Signing officer of a bank
Obviously I didn't see this list before I asked my accountant to sign my forms.... but what really cheeses me off is that if I was renewing IN Canada or even America, I could get ANYONE to sign it, as long as they'd known me for at least 2 years. It's all a bunch of bureaucratic bull****!!!!
I agree it is total nonsense! SO not fair, and imagine all the Canadian expats who haven't lived in a place long enough to know someone in those categories for two years (and of course we have to renew the things every five years, so this must happen a LOT).
ReplyDeleteWe are lucky that it isn't too far to go to the Canadian Embassy in The Hague, where you can (for a fee, of course) have the consul sign in leiu of guarantor.