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If you are a protected person or a stateless permanent resident, you may not be able to use a passport from your country of origin — and you should not try. There is a correct Canadian document for you. Offices in Brampton and London.
For a protected person, obtaining or using a passport from the country you fled can be treated as re-availing yourself of its protection — and can put your status in Canada at risk.
The two documents
Two documents, two different groups of people. Applying for the wrong one is the most common cause of delay.
Which document?
Applying for the wrong one is the most common cause of delay. Two questions settle it.
What to know
These documents let you travel; they do not make you a Canadian citizen or replace a passport in every sense.
Travel there is excluded, and attempting it can jeopardise your protected status.
Other countries decide their own entry rules for these documents. Check each destination before booking.
Your entitlement flows from your status here. Maintain your PR card and residency obligation alongside it.
Once eligible, Canadian citizenship and a Canadian passport remove this problem permanently.
Processing takes time. Document first, tickets second — never the other way round.
How we work
From choosing the right document to the passport that ends the problem.
Refugee travel document or certificate of identity, based on your actual status rather than assumptions.
Photos, identity evidence, guarantor and supporting documents prepared to specification the first time.
Children and dependants filed alongside you so your family can travel together.
Where you are eligible or close, we map the route to a Canadian passport so this becomes a one-time problem.
Travel document help
Tell us your status and when you need to travel, and a licensed RCIC will confirm the right document and realistic timing.
Questions about refugee travel documents? Eligibility, documents, timing, fees and processing are answered in the Help Centre.
Good to know
More questions on this topic are answered in the Help Centre.
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General information only, not legal advice, and current as of July 2026. Rules, fees and processing times change — confirm current requirements on canada.ca before filing. Contacting us does not create a client–consultant relationship until a written retainer is signed. IRCC makes all final decisions.
Document review
Send a few details. A licensed RCIC reads your profile personally, then replies with the routes that genuinely fit, the ones that do not, and the consultation fee and next available times.
CHK Immigration Services, Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant (CICC). Offices in Brampton and London, Ontario. Submitting this form does not create a client–consultant relationship; IRCC makes all final decisions. Prefer to talk first? Call 647-948-7200 or book a paid consultation.
Free, fee-exempt options exist. Your employer or partner is not asked.
