Pass port application

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ACTUAL PASSPORT LETTER-----HILARIOUS!
> > > This letter is a thing of beauty (even if the language is a bit rough)..
> > > You definitely feel the guy's pain! An actual letter to the
> > > passport
> > > office...
> > >
> > > Dear sirs,
> > >
> > > I'm in the process of renewing my passport, and still cannot believe this.
> > > How is it that Radio Shack has my address and telephone number and knows
> > > that I bought a cable t.v. from them back in 1987, and yet, the Federal
> > > Government is still asking me where I was born and on what date.
> > >
> > > For God sakes, do you guys do this by hand? My birth date you have on my
> > > social security card, and it is on all the income tax forms I've filed for
> > > the past 30 years. It is on my health insurance card, my driver's license,
> > > on the last eight damn passports I've had, on all those stupid customs
> > > declaration forms I've had to fill out before being allowed off the plane
> > > over the last 30 years, and all those insufferable census forms that are
> > > done at election times.
> > >
> > > Would somebody please take note, once and for all, that my mother's name is
> > > Maryanne, my father's name is Robert and I'd be absolutely astounded if that
> > > ever changed between
> > > now and when I die!!!!!!
> > >
> > > I apologize, I'm really pissed off this morning. Between you an' me, I've
> > > had enough of this bullshit! You send the application to my house, then you
> > > ask me for my friggin' address.
> > >
> > > What is going on? You have a gang of Neanderthal assholes workin' there!
> > > Look at my darn picture. Do I look like Bin Laden? I don 't want to dig up
> > > Yasser Arafat, for shit sakes. I just want to go and park my ass on a sandy
> > > beach.
> > >
> > > And would someone please tell me, why would you give a
> > > shit whether I plan
> > > on visiting a farm in the next 15 days? If I ever got the urge to do
> > > something weird to a chicken or a goat, believe you me, I'd sure as hell not
> > > want to tell anyone!
> > >
> > > Well, I have to go now, 'cause I have to go to the other end of the city and
> > > get another friggin' copy of my birth certificate, to the tune of $60. Would
> > > it be so complicated to have all the services in the same spot to assist in
> > > the issuance of a new passport the same day?? Nooooo, that'd be too dang
> > > easy and
> > > maybe makes sense. You'd rather have us running all over the
> > > friggin' place like chickens with our heads cut off, then find some a-hole
> > > to confirm that it's really me on the dang picture - you know,the one where
> > > we're not allowed to smile?! (bureaucratic friggin' morons) Hey, you know
> > > why we can't smile? We're totally pissed off!
> > >
> > > Signed
> > > - An Irate Citizen.
> > >
> > > P.S. Remember what I said above about the picture and getting someone to
> > > confirm that it's me? Well, my family has been in this
> > > country since 1776
> > > .......I have served in the military for something over 30 years and have
> > > had security clearances up the yingyang........However, I have to get
> > > someone'important' to verify who I am - you know, someone like my doctor WHO
> > > WAS BORN AND RAISED IN INDIA !
> > >
> > > Sincerely,
> > >
> > > You Sure In The Hell Should Know Who.

 

[Cycleguy007]

Actually... I just finished going through this process myself and wondered many of those same things myself. Seems to me, handing in your old passport, new pics and payment for the $87.00 should be sufficient!

But at least they DO have a new Simplified Passport Application process not, which does eliminate a few things...

What is a REAL pain is if your passport is lost or stolen! Then you're in for a real treat!

 

[danmand]

The hillarious thing was that up until recently, a valid passport did not
qualify as valid ID and documentation for Immigration Canada

 

[fuji]

The farm thing is because the govt. is worried you will bring a foot and mouth disease infection back to Canada, which would potentially devestate our entire farming industry.

If you answer "yes" to that all that happens is on your return they make you disinfect the soles of your shoes.

 

[daty]

even better ...my married daughter (5 years)has a drivers permit, a co- registered home , files annual taxes from her home of five years and the ONLY mail we get for her here at our home is from revenue Canada

 

[Tokyo Heights]

I had a hearty laugh after i read the above thread, its really hillarious, & well written.
Now with lots of RED TAPE & Beaurcracy in Govt. Institutions anything is possible now a day's which is pretty unfortunate for Citizen's of Canada. Now a day's to get a Police Search Certificate
it takes 9-12 Weeks, with such high-tech data systems and tools available it has become a pain in the ass for the applicants, the system is slowly changing its trend like other 3rd, world countries
where such things are norm of the day, which is happening now in Canada too.

 

[Aardvark154]

The farm thing is because the govt. is worried you will bring a foot and mouth disease infection back to Canada, which would potentially devestate our entire farming industry.

If you answer "yes" to that all that happens is on your return they make you disinfect the soles of your shoes.

That is one thing that I suppose I'm overly cautious about, if they have the "bath" out at the airport, I'll walk though it.

 

[Moraff]

even better ...my married daughter (5 years)has a drivers permit, a co- registered home , files annual taxes from her home of five years and the ONLY mail we get for her here at our home is from revenue Canada

The drivers permit and the co-registered home wouldn't cause an address change with CRA. Filing her taxes should automatically update them tho'. Are you positive she's not just using your address on her taxes?

Another possibility occurs.... CRA keeps 2 addresses - mailing and home. Possibly her taxes are only indicating the home address of her new home and not that the mailing address has changed to that as well.

Or just another CRA computer screwup.

 

[Hangman]

Cool story, bro.

I have no issues with verifying my identity for passport purposes.
All the people shaking their heads and exclaiming that the government should magically know who they are would shit their pants over privacy issues if they found out that the government had a cross-ministry, multijurisdictional database tracking them cradle to grave.

PS the forwarding marks in the original really give it an air of authenticity.