Passport Canada’s new Guarantor Policy and Directive on Loss of Citizenship - Privacy Impact Assessment: Global Affairs Canada - 2023-08-15 (English, HTML)

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The Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) was developed as part of the Department’s commitment to protection of personal information. It also meets the Management of Information Technology Security requirements obligating departmental major services to undergo a security and privacy assessment at this point. Passport Canada introduced two new policies that are reflected on its Passport Application Forms. These new policies are the new Guarantor Policy and the Loss of Canadian Citizenship pursuant to section 8 of the Citizenship Act policy. The new Guarantor Policy enables Canadian passport holders (with some restriction, not all Canadian Passport Holder may act as Guarantor) to be a guarantor for a new passport applicant in Canada and in the USA, and the Directive on Policy regarding Loss of Citizenship provides a public service to inform Canadians that are impacted by Section 8 of the 1977 Citizenship Act, which states “Where a person who was born outside Canada after February 14, 1977 is a Canadian citizen for the reason that at the time of birth, one of his parents was a citizen by virtue of paragraph 3(1)(b) or (e), that person ceases to be a citizen on attaining the age of…

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