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Can port Renewal Questions

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4 posts · ed 2025
(Not sure if this should go in the US category, but this my home and where I live or if it should be in the Canadian one, though I don't live there?)

Dual citizen here, and I let my Canadian port expire back in 2016 (5 year one). I found out I can still renew it online as it's still less than 15 years since it was last renewed in 2011.

I have a question about the References they want. I don't have much in of s in Canada anymore that aren't family, which don't count as the references go.

I do have an "aunt" whose not blood related who married my uncle and is now a widow. The state on the website it can't be anyone related to you by "blood, marriage, common-law partnership, adoption or guardianship and lives at the same address as you". So how would my uncles wife be classified, was she technially related by her marriage to my uncle or not? If not I can use her then.

Just hard to struggle to find people I'm still in with in Canada and kind of running out of ideas for references as I haven't lived there for decades now and the ones I did know are either long gone or out of or just friends on social media, without really having any with them other than seeing them post...
 
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Your aunt is related to you by marriage - she married your uncle. You cannot use her.....
 
I have always understood that relatives are not eligible to act as referees. She is a relative.
 
Yes it's a bit vauge, but I did realize from researching it and other people have stated that there is no requirement that the reference has to even be a Canadian Citizen and can be anyone that has known you. So I can use my friends here in the US instead and that should be fine.

I can't who did it back in 2011, but I think my dad when he was alive, just had family friends there who know me growing up as the references, but I should be good to just use US citizen friends for it...
 
Yes it's a bit vauge, but I did realize from researching it and other people have stated that there is no requirement that the reference has to even be a Canadian Citizen and can be anyone that has known you. So I can use my friends here in the US instead and that should be fine.

I can't who did it back in 2011, but I think my dad when he was alive, just had family friends there who know me growing up as the references, but I should be good to just use US citizen friends for it...
I believe that you only need a Canadian Citizen guarantor, if you are applying for a new (ie first) port or are not eligible to renew a port (for example because it has dated out or you have undergone a name change, etc),
 
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