{"id":575859,"date":"2026-04-01T20:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T20:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/575859\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T20:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T20:24:10","slug":"ottawas-30-days-or-free-policy-for-issuing-passports-now-in-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/575859\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa&#8217;s 30-days-or-free policy for issuing passports now in place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA \u2014 The federal government\u2019s new \u201c30 days or free\u201d policy for issuing passports takes effect today.<\/p>\n<p>If it takes more than 30 business days to process an application, applicants will get a full refund of their passport or travel document fee.<\/p>\n<p>The government says applicants should be compensated if the government doesn\u2019t meet its service standards.<\/p>\n<p>It says most passports are processed within the service standard of between 10 and 20 business days.<\/p>\n<p>The new 30-day guarantee doesn\u2019t include mailing time and the countdown starts when the government receives a complete application.<\/p>\n<p>The standard won\u2019t apply to all services, such as urgent and express services.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/b8272a93b9fc91950cae763419e47e184952e2d4864be690ba7f65606bfc4c9e-1024x682.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" ratio=\"16x9\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tThe new Canadian passport is unveiled at an event at the Ottawa International Airport in Ottawa on Wednesday, May 10, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Sean Kilpatrick  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 The federal government\u2019s new \u201c30 days or free\u201d policy for issuing passports takes effect today. If&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-575859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}