Canadian citizens renewing passports from the US

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Should have done this yesterday - sorry

Topic has been moved from General Immigration Discussion to the Canada Regional Forum discussion as a more appropriate location for this country-specific topic

[Marilyn. 340]

another suggestion for pics is go to your local AAA.. even if you don't have a membership they should take your pics there...

[Krikit 1,164]

FYI, my passport showed up this morning.

Thanks for the follow-up. You're the first person I've seen who hasn't had their Walgreens pics rejected.

[HeatDeath 430]

That's probably because I brought the specs with me and went through them point by point until I was dang sure every point matched. And it's possible I just got lucky with the background colour/lighting/shadows, although I did check the prints for that quite carefully before I left the store.

[HeatDeath 430]

Also, as I said earlier, Walgreen's (the one I went to at least) was able to size and frame the head and shoulders properly using their machine (it has a built in profile for the Canadian format), but could only cut to 2x2, using their special cutter. What I did differently than most people, I suspect, was to just take the uncut photos, and cut them myself using the paper cutter at my work. That got them out to be the proper size.

I suspect that sending Passport Canada 2x2 photos could easily be an auto-denial, especially if you got someone who was having a bad day that day.