Until recently, Israeli families with children in British Columbia were required to travel to Toronto to renew or extend their children\u2019s Israeli passports. The Israeli Consulate in Toronto is now collaborating with three local notaries public \u2013 one each in Vancouver, Calgary and Winnipeg. In Vancouver, Adam Brosgall, owner and principal lawyer at Brosgall Legal, has been approved by the Israeli Consulate General in Toronto to be the notary public in British Columbia to assist Israeli citizens who wish to renew or extend their under-18 children\u2019s travel documents.<\/p>\n
Brosgall will notarize the parents\u2019 signatures on their children\u2019s passport renewal or extension forms and identify the minors appearing before him, with their updated passport photos, and sign the back of the photos.<\/p>\n
Parents wishing to use the notary public\u2019s services must arrange a meeting and come together with their child and the following documents: forms for renewal\/extension of a passport, filled in but unsigned (the parents will both sign in front of the notary public); birth certificate of the minor with the names of both parents; photocopies of the parents\u2019 passports; and two recent five-by-five-centimetre passport photos of the child.<\/p>\n
Both parents must come to the meeting with the notary public, along with the child, and the notary public\u2019s service comes at a fee. After the notarization, the signed forms and the children\u2019s photographs must be sent by mail to the Consulate General in Toronto. Only requests signed by Brosgall (in Vancouver) will be approved by the consulate.<\/p>\n
Those who choose not to appear before the notary public may continue to travel to the consulate in person to renew\/extend their children\u2019s passports.<\/p>\n