{"id":13551,"date":"2012-02-29T09:41:36","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T16:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=13551"},"modified":"2016-09-17T20:43:15","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T17:43:15","slug":"simplified-passport-renewal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/simplified-passport-renewal\/","title":{"rendered":"Simplified Passport Renewal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Getting a new passport on the road was a daunting prospect until Passport Canada <em>finally<\/em> came up with a simplified passport renewal form that doesn&#8217;t need to be signed by a guarantor. Had this not been the case, I would have had to renew my passport super early in November of 2010, when I went to Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>With March fast approaching, it was time to stop ignoring my daily reminders to get my passport application in. I finally filled out the forms last night and they were a breeze, what with not having to list practically every address I&#8217;ve ever had. Cost: $87.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, I went to a nearby camera shop, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcbaincamera.com\/\">McBain Camera<\/a>, and had my photos taken. This was super easy; the website had information on how to dress (dark clothes, no jewelery, no makeup). I was literally in and out in under 10 minutes. Cost: $16.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I went to Shopper&#8217;s Drugmart to Xpress Post the documents, my old passport, my payment information, and my photos. Cost: $17.<\/p>\n<p>As long as everything is in order, I can expect my passport to arrive the last week of March or the first week of April. Keep your fingers crossed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting a new passport on the road was a daunting prospect until Passport Canada finally came up with a simplified passport renewal form that doesn&#8217;t need to be signed by a guarantor. Had this not been the case, I would have had to renew my passport super early in November of 2010, when I went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1041,632,936,1226,635,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alberta","category-canada","category-legalities","category-lethbridge","category-north-america","category-rving","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}