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The Canadian Certificate of Identity (French: Certificat d’identité) is an international travel document issued by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada to a permanent resident of Canada who is not yet a Canadian citizen, is stateless, or is otherwise unable to obtain a national passport or travel document. [1]
Front cover of an OCI card issued between 9 January 2006 and 8 January 2015 Data page of an OCI card issued between 9 January 2006 and 8 January 2015 Lifelong "U" visa stamped on the OCI holder's passport (for OCIs issued between 9 January 2006 and 8 January 2015) The OCI document is a passport-like document, even though it is not a passport.
Document code (identifies the document as a non-passport travel document and to Canadian authorities as a PR card) 1 3-5 3 CAN ISO 3166 Alpha-3 code of Canada 1 6-14 9 PA0123456 Permanent Resident Card number, matches with the small barcode at the top left and the text at the top right [17] 1 15 1 0 Check digit for positions 6-14 1 16 1 <
The fixed format allows specification of document type, name, document number, nationality, date of birth, sex, and document expiration date. All these fields are required on a passport. There is room for optional, often country-dependent, supplementary information. There are also two sizes of machine-readable visas similarly defined.
Visa requirements for Canadian citizens are administrative entry restrictions by the authorities of other states placed on citizens of Canada.. As of 2025, Canadian citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 188 countries and territories, ranking the Canadian passport 7th in the world according to the Henley Passport Index. [1]
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC; French: Immigration, Réfugiés et Citoyenneté Canada) [NB 1] is the department of the Government of Canada with responsibility for matters dealing with immigration to Canada, refugees, and Canadian citizenship. The department was established in 1994 following a reorganization.
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A certificate of identity issued to a refugee is also referred to as a 1951 Convention travel document (also known as a refugee travel document or a Geneva passport), in reference to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. 145 countries are parties to the 1951 Convention and 146 countries are parties to the 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees.