{"id":2644,"date":"2017-09-13T13:45:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T17:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/borderslawfirm.com\/?p=2644"},"modified":"2021-09-15T13:55:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T19:55:37","slug":"new-x-non-binary-gender-designation-on-canadian-travel-and-immigration-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borderslawfirm.com\/new-x-non-binary-gender-designation-on-canadian-travel-and-immigration-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"New \u201cX\u201d non-binary gender designation on Canadian travel and immigration documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of August 31, 2017, immigrants and citizens of Canada may request that their gender be identified as \u201cX\u201d (Unspecified) rather than \u201cM\u201d or \u201cF\u201d on passports and immigration documents. IRCC is not yet able to print documents with this designation, so until the system update is complete, \u201cX\u201d will not be listed as an option when you\u2019re requesting or renewing any documents. However, it will be possible in the interim to request an observation that will be added to the document, which will read: \u201c<em>The sex of the bearer should be read as \u201cX\u201d, indicating that it is unspecified<\/em>.\u201d There is no fee to request that this text be added, and it can be done for the following documents:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><u>Passports<\/u>: the request form can be submitted along with your application for a new passport, or for an existing passport that will not expire within the next six months;<\/li>\n<li><u>Immigration documents<\/u>: the request form can be submitted only once you are in Canada, and only for documents which do not expire within the next six months;<\/li>\n<li><u>Citizenship documents<\/u>: the request form can be submitted only when you are in Canada, and only for documents which do not expire within the next six months.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It\u2019s important to consider where you will travel if you are planning to request a passport with an \u201cX\u201d designation on it. Each country has control over its own borders and will apply its own laws to foreign nationals seeking entry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As of August 31, 2017, immigrants and citizens of Canada may request that their gender be identified as \u201cX\u201d (Unspecified) rather than \u201cM\u201d or \u201cF\u201d on passports and immigration documents. IRCC is not yet able to print documents with this designation, so until the system update is complete, \u201cX\u201d will not be listed as an&#8230; <a class=\"view-article\" href=\"https:\/\/borderslawfirm.com\/new-x-non-binary-gender-designation-on-canadian-travel-and-immigration-documents\/\">View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borderslawfirm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borderslawfirm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borderslawfirm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borderslawfirm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borderslawfirm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borderslawfirm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borderslawfirm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borderslawfirm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borderslawfirm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}