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Procedures are now available for establishing date of birth records in Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) systems. These procedures apply to citizenship and immigration lines of business and replace and supersede any previously published instructions in IRCC manuals.
Temporary resident or permanent resident
The vast majority of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) applicants applying for temporary or permanent residence will have a foreign-issued passport. As an official document that shows the identity and nationality of a person for the purpose of facilitating international travel, the foreign passport is the primary document to be used to establish a date of birth record for IRCC purposes.
See Date of birth structures in travel documents (MRZ, MRC, VIZ) for how to determine dates of birth based on the:
- Machine-Readable Zone (MRZ)
- Machine Readable Chip (MRC)
- Visual Inspection Zone (VIZ)
In cases where an individual does not possess a passport, but has another travel document, the date of birth recorded on that travel document will be used to establish the date of birth for IRCC purposes.
