Prince George next on list of cities to offer 10-day service to process for passport applications.
Karina Gould, the federal Minister Families, Children and Social Development, confirmed that starting in April the Services Canada office in downtown Prince George will have the ability to process passport applications.
As of right now in B.C., Kelowna is the closest city to offer passport services. The province’s other passport offices are in Vancouver, Richmond, Surrey and Victoria. For people who live in Prince Rupert and require express or urgent passport service, that’s a 15-hour drive to Vancouver in good weather conditions.
Asked why Prince George was not on that list this year ahead of cities such as Lethbridge and Red Deer that are within two hours of driving time from Calgary, Gould said the government fast-tracked the smaller Alberta centres to take the pressure off the two major cities, which until then had the province’s only passport offices.
After a year of lineups of anxious people waiting for passports that stretched for blocks in cities like Vancouver and Calgary, Gould said Service Canada offices across the country are now meeting standards for the time it takes to process a passport application.
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