Technically there's no such thing as a Canadian passport renewal; every application is handled as if it was the first one. This is exacerbated by the fact that Canadian passports expire after only five years, rather than the US passport's ten years.
If you have an old passport you're required to send it in, but that's mostly to allow them to punch holes in it, and because it serves as ID. The passport office claims that it will instate a real renewal process in the future, making it unnecessary to provide all that data every time, but I'm not holding my breath.
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Date: 2006-01-26 06:10 pm (UTC)If you have an old passport you're required to send it in, but that's mostly to allow them to punch holes in it, and because it serves as ID. The passport office claims that it will instate a real renewal process in the future, making it unnecessary to provide all that data every time, but I'm not holding my breath.