Certain Fees in Respect of the Issuance of Identity and Travel Documents (2025 Canada Wildfires) Remission Order

Validated finding · five-country-2010-20260922-v118-evidence-presentation-fix

CountryCanada

Operative dateDecember 5, 2025

CategoryDocumentation / residence / citizenship

Policy toolFee waiver / remission

Affected groupAny person who was in, or had their residence in, an area in canada affected by a wildfire between april 1, 2025, and november 30, 2025, and whose document was lost, damaged, destroyed, or rendered inaccessible as a result of the wildfire.

Policy effect

Grants remission of fees paid or payable for the replacement of identity and travel documents—including passports, certificates of citizenship, permanent resident cards, certificates of identity, and refugee travel documents—for any person who was in or had their residence in an area in Canada affected by a wildfire at some time between April 1, 2025, and November 30, 2025, on condition that the valid document was lost, damaged, destroyed, or rendered inaccessible as a result of the wildfire, an application to replace it was made during that period, the application included a required declaration regarding the loss and proof of residence or presence in the affected area, and the fees have not otherwise been remitted.

Conditions and exceptions

Validated condition or limit: Grants remission of fees paid or payable for the replacement of identity and travel documents—including passports, certificates of citizenship, permanent resident cards, certificates of identity, and refugee travel documents—for any person who was in or had their residence in an area in Canada affected by a wildfire at some time between April 1, 2025, and November 30, 2025, on condition that the valid document was lost, damaged, destroyed, or rendered inaccessible as a result of the wildfire, an application to replace it was made during that period, the application included a required declaration regarding the loss and proof of residence or presence in the affected area, and the fees have not otherwise been remitted.

Official source excerpt

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Remission is granted to any person who meets the conditions set out in section 3 of the fees paid or payable set out in any of the following provisions, in respect of the replacement of a document … at some time during the period beginning on April 1, 2025 and ending on November 30, 2025, the person was in, or had their residence in, an area in Canada affected by a wildfire; (b) the document was — while it was valid — lost, damaged, destroyed or rendered inaccessible as a result of the wildfire; (c) during that period, the person, or a person acting on their behalf, made an application to replace the document; (d) the application included a declaration made by the person, or a person acting on their behalf, stating that the the document was lost, damaged, destroyed or rendered inaccessible as a result of the wildfire and (i) proof that, at the time that the document was lost, damaged, destroyed or rendered inaccessible, the person had their residence in an area referred to in paragraph (a), or (ii) a declaration made by the person, or a person acting on their behalf, stating that, at that time, the person was in that area; and (e) the fees in question have not been remitted under section 11 of the Passport and Other Travel Document Services Fees Regulations.

Canada Gazette / Justice LawsCanada Gazette, Part II, Volume 159, Number 26, Registration SI/2025-116, P.C. 2025-898 (December 5, 2025)Open official source

Retrieved from https://laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SI-2025-116/FullText.html

Review method

Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite extraction with independent Gemini 3.8 Flash verification

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Certain Fees in Respect of the Issuance of Identity and Travel Documents (2025 Canada Wildfires) Remission Order

Policy effect

Conditions and exceptions

Official source excerpt

Review method

Other Canada changes operative in 2025