Expiring passport

[Walt and Shannon 0]

I was issued a fiance visa in January 2009. I am coming to the USA in June 2009. My concern is that my Canadian passport is about to expire (July 2009). I can't renew it because my visa is stamped into it. I would like to visit Canada before my two years of conditional residency are up and understand I can do this by applying for something called an "advanced parole"? However, how can I visit if my passport expires and you cannot apply for a Canadian passport while living in the USA? I thought I would just be able to mail it in and renew it while in the USA but it doesn't sound like I can do that. Anyone experience something similar?

[Otto 83]

Are you certain you can not renew your passport while living in the US? Sounds a bit odd...

As kind of an aside - is it safe to assume you're coming to the US before the Visa itself expires?

[Walt and Shannon 0]

I will be in the US before the visa expires. I'm coming in June and it expires in July. The website I read said passports cannot be renewed if residing outside of Canada, unless I'm reading it wrong.

[YuAndDan 153]

This is NOT a problem, once you have green-card conditional or not, you can use the green-card to visit Canada and return through border crossings.

However if you fly into Canada you will need a valid passport.

The visa is VOIDED the moment you use it, so if you did renew the passport and for some reason the passport office keeps the passport, this is not an issue the visa is not valid anyway.

AP allows travel while Adjustment of status is pending, and again if you were to renew passport while AOS is pending the AP doc and NEW passport will allow re-entry even without the voided K-1 visa attached.

Moving this to Work Travel prior to green card.

You should be able to renew passport in the USA: http://www.ppt.gc.ca/cdn/form.aspx?lang=eng&region=USA

Edited May 22, 2009 by YuAndDan

[moni_calla 0]

You can definitely renew your CDN passport from the US, http://www.passport.gc.ca/cdn/form.aspx?la...&region=USA this link should provide you with more information.

Hope this helps