The Canadian passport ranks among the top 10 in the world for global travel access, according to a new report by London-based immigration consulting firm Henley & Partners. Released on July 19, the quarterly report ranks each country’s passport according to the number of destinations their holders can access without a prior visa. Canada, Australia, the…

Commentary Something does not compute. Well, quite a few things. But here are two. The Canadian government, unable to fulfil the very basic function of getting citizens passports without travel-plan-wrecking delays, leaps into committee by creating a 13-plus-minister task force on how to do something it or its predecessors have been doing since 1862 while…

For another day, hundreds of people are waiting outside a downtown Montreal passport office hoping to get a new travel document. Large crowds have gathered outside the office every day this week, as people—many of whom have departure dates within 48 hours—try to renew their passports or obtain a Canadian passport for the first time….

The federal minister responsible for Passport Canada is calling the situation at a Montreal passport office unacceptable. Families Minister Karina Gould says senior managers are on the ground in Montreal and 600 additional people have been hired to deal with Canada-wide passport processing delays. Montreal police say they were called to the downtown passport office…

A Dutch police officer has described finding cash, a passport and a hard drive hidden inside a stereo in the home of the man accused of extorting British Columbia teenager Amanda Todd. Erik Verstraten told the B.C. Supreme Court trial for Aydin Coban that he found 10,000 euros in cash and a passport belonging to…

Passport offices are still dealing with a surge of applications, the minister responsible says, and wait times are “far from acceptable.” Karina Gould says those long wait times are her top priority, but she cannot say when things may return to normal. The federal government says 72 percent of Canadians who apply for a passport…

This year, Chinese immigration authorities twice prevented a Chinese businessman from leaving the country, even though he had valid travel documents. Mr. Zhao (an alias for safety) from China’s eastern Shandong Province was not allowed to exit China in January nor in May. Zhao is just one of many people prevented from exiting China. As the…

The Chinese communist regime has denied that Chinese border police are clipping citizens’ passports and resident cards issued by foreign governments to prevent people leaving after an increasing number of videos showing such actions were seen circulating on Chinese social media. China’s National Immigration Administration recently issued a statement to tighten control of Chinese citizens’ “non-essential” travel…

The Chinese communist regime has denied that Chinese border police are clipping citizens’ passports and resident cards issued by foreign governments to prevent people leaving after an increasing number of videos showing such actions were seen circulating on Chinese social media. China’s National Immigration Administration recently issued a statement to tighten control of Chinese citizens’ “non-essential” travel…

BERLIN—A 60-year-old man allegedly had himself vaccinated against COVID-19 dozens of times in Germany in order to sell forged vaccination cards with real vaccine batch numbers to people not wanting to get vaccinated themselves. The man from the eastern German city of Magdeburg, whose name was not released in line with German privacy rules, is…