Passport information requerid?

Question

I am a Canadian citizen leaving abroad. I went to the Guatemala embassy to renew my presently Canadian passport. The person that works there ask me obviously my passport and my Canadian citizen card and she say that when my new passport will be delivery to me she will retour both my two passports and my Canadian citizenship card. That concern me because beside the passport the only thigh I have that proof that I am Canadian citizen is that card did she really have to keep then during the tree weeks period of the procedure of my renew passport. Or I have the right to keep it. I went through all the differents web pages of the Canadian passports and I did not find anything regarding that specifically question.

Thanks

Answer 1

If you are Canadian citizen, why did you go to Guatemala embassy to renew your presently Canadian passport?? You should go to the Canadian embassy, your embassy.

Answer 2

Hi Miki

You will need any kind of ID. Tell the ppl of the embassy, that they could not leave you without any type of ID. Because the problem is your passport, and they could prove that you have the citizen ID card, perhaps they could use a photocopy of the card to be attached to the forms requesting new passport.

Good luck

Answer 3

You should have kept notarized copies of your documents and any visas inside until the originals are returned.  At this point, you could ask the embassy to provide you with an official letter identifying which documents they have kept.