{"id":833129,"date":"2026-07-29T06:56:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T06:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/833129\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T06:56:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T06:56:29","slug":"ottawa-launches-expanded-online-passport-renewal-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/833129\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa launches expanded online passport renewal service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"display:block\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/resizer\/v2\/7XRPS5IZJBAOFEKGPQYK3I7ITM.jpg?auth=5ee1c70037f3fab9865c4fe1fbe098d7a05eec01172ba0095ee40a6fec0752b2&amp;width=600&amp;height=400&amp;quality=80&amp;smart=true\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" data-photo-viewer-index=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Open this photo in gallery:<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"figcap-text\">The new Canadian passport is unveiled at an event at the Ottawa International Airport in May, 2023.Sean Kilpatrick\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Immigration Minister Lena Diab says that, starting today, online passport renewal is open to all eligible Canadian adults.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">To qualify, applicants must have an address in Canada, be older than 16 when they got their last passport, and must have received it within the last 15 years, among other criteria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Applicants will still need to get a passport photo taken by a commercial photographer and submit a digital copy when applying online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Online passport renewals have been an option for some passport holders for a few years, but the most recent version of the service had a daily cap of 2,000 applications.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">Diab says people who apply online should expect to receive their new passports within 20 days and to be able to track its progress in real time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text text-pr-5\">The minister announced earlier this year that applicants\u2019 passport application fees will be reimbursed if they wait more than 30 days to get their travel documents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: The new Canadian passport is unveiled at an event at the Ottawa International&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":833130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,20739,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-833129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-ottawa","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833129","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=833129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}