Searching for ID (identification)

Access to Government of Ontario services and documentation at various counter and kiosk locations. Services available at each location vary and some services are available online.

Services include:

• birth, marriage and death certificates
• health card registration Ontario photo card
• driver and vehicle licensing
• accessible parking permits
• fishing and hunting licenses
• employment standards claims
• business registration
• provincial tax returns and payments
• Ontario government publications
• Landlord and Tenant Board

One-stop service delivery for a wide range of federal programs and services. Internet access and assistance locating and applying for government programs including:

• Employment Insurance
• Social Insurance Numbers
• Canada Pension Plan
• Old Age Security
• Apprenticeship Incentive Grant.
• Passports

Access to Government of Ontario services and documentation at various counter and kiosk locations. Services available at each location vary and some services are available online.

Services include:

• birth, marriage and death certificates
• health card registration Ontario photo card
• driver and vehicle licensing
• accessible parking permits
• fishing and hunting licenses
• employment standards claims
• business registration
• provincial tax returns and payments
• Ontario government publications
• Landlord and Tenant Board

Access to Government of Ontario services and documentation at various counter and kiosk locations. Services available at each location vary and some services are available online.

Services include:

• birth, marriage and death certificates
• health card registration Ontario photo card
• driver and vehicle licensing
• accessible parking permits
• fishing and hunting licenses
• employment standards claims
• business registration
• provincial tax returns and payments
• Ontario government publications
• Landlord and Tenant Board

One-stop service delivery for a wide range of federal programs and services. Internet access and assistance locating and applying for government programs including:

• Employment Insurance
• Social Insurance Numbers
• Canada Pension Plan
• Old Age Security
• Apprenticeship Incentive Grant

Access to Government of Ontario services and documentation at various counter and kiosk locations. Services available at each location vary and some services are available online.

Services include:

• birth, marriage and death certificates
• health card registration Ontario photo card
• driver and vehicle licensing
• accessible parking permits
• fishing and hunting licenses
• employment standards claims
• business registration
• provincial tax returns and payments
• Ontario government publications
• Landlord and Tenant Board

Access to Government of Ontario services and documentation at various counter and kiosk locations. Services available at each location vary and some services are available online.

Services include:

• birth, marriage and death certificates
• health card registration Ontario photo card
• driver and vehicle licensing
• accessible parking permits
• fishing and hunting licenses
• employment standards claims
• business registration
• provincial tax returns and payments
• Ontario government publications
• Landlord and Tenant Board

Access to Government of Ontario services and documentation

Services at this location:

• driver's licenses
• vehicle permits, plates and stickers
• accessible parking permit
• driver and vehicle records
• health card and insurance (OHIP)
• organ and tissue donation
• photo card

Access to Government of Ontario services and documentation

Services at this location:

• driver's licenses
• vehicle permits, plates and stickers
• accessible parking permit
• driver and vehicle records
• health card and insurance (OHIP)
• organ and tissue donation
• photo card

Access to Government of Ontario services and documentation at various counter and kiosk locations. Services available at each location vary and some services are available online.

Services include:

• birth, marriage and death certificates
• health card registration Ontario photo card
• driver and vehicle licensing
• accessible parking permits
• fishing and hunting licenses
• employment standards claims
• business registration
• provincial tax returns and payments
• Ontario government publications
• Landlord and Tenant Board

COVID-19: Click here for an up-to-date service announcement.

One-stop service delivery for a wide range of federal programs and services. Internet access and assistance locating and applying for government programs including:

• Employment Insurance
• Social Insurance Numbers
• Canada Pension Plan
• Old Age Security
• Apprenticeship Incentive Grant
• Passports

Access to Government of Ontario services and documentation

Services at this location:

• birth, marriage and death certificates
• health card registration
  
• Ontario photo card
• driver and vehicle licensing
• Ontario government publications

Access to Government of Ontario services and documentation

Services at this location:

• health card registration; Ontario photo card
• driver and vehicle licensing
• Ontario government publications

Access to Government of Ontario services and documentation at various counter and kiosk locations. Services available at each location vary and some services are available online.

Services include:

• birth, marriage and death certificates
• health card registration Ontario photo card
• driver and vehicle licensing
• accessible parking permits
• fishing and hunting licenses
• employment standards claims
• business registration
• provincial tax returns and payments
• Ontario government publications
• Landlord and Tenant Board

Access to Government of Ontario services and documentation

Services at this location:

• driver's licenses
• vehicle permits, plates and stickers
• accessible parking permit
• driver and vehicle records
• health card and insurance (OHIP)
• organ and tissue donation
• photo card
  

To reduce lineups and wait times please book an appointment HERE

Services available at this location include:

• Vehicle licenses
• Vehicle permits, plates and stickers
• Accessible parking permit
• Driver and vehicle records
• Health card and insurance (OHIP)
• Organ and tissue donation
• Photo card

Many services can be accessed online. See website HERE

You cannot get health card services at this location if you: have a Temporary Resident Permit or Work Permit that says valid until or issued until a specific date. Contact 1-866-532-3161 for more details.

Free, self-service public computer available

Change of address information is available on the Internet for this and other Ontario ministries through their integrated address change HERE

More extensive service available in Goderich GBA3836.

Department of Citizenship and Immigration

Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada, facilitates the arrival of immigrants, provides protection to refugees, and offers programming to help newcomers settle in Canada. It also:

• grants citizenship,
• issues travel documents (such as passports) to Canadians
• promotes multiculturalism
• Dual Citizenship and Refugee Claims information

Canadian Citizenship Application Centre

• Federal service handling applications for the grant of Canadian citizenship
• Apply to visit, study, work or immigrate to Canada, apply for citizenship or a permanent resident card, check the status of your application or find a form.

Immigrate:

• Includes applications for federal skilled workers, family sponsorship, start-up visas, refugees, and tips on fraud and using a representative

Visit:

• Includes visitor visas and extensions for tourists, parents and grandparents and business travellers, transit visas and necessary travel identification documents

Work:

• Includes work permit applications and extensions, live-in caregiver applications, getting credentials recognized and hiring temporary foreign workers

Study:

• Includes study or student work permit applications and extensions

Citizenship:

• Includes how to apply, resume or give up Canadian citizenship, prepare for the citizenship test and get proof of citizenship

New Immigrants:

• Permanent Resident Cards, immigrant services in your area, and citizenship applications

Passports/Sponsorships: Canadians:

• Includes family sponsorship, proof of citizenship, passports, adoption, refugee sponsorship and citizenship celebrations

My Application:

• Includes application status, processing times, online applications and paper forms, fee payments, medical and police checks. Click Here for Details

Find an Office:

• Includes where to send your application, visa application centres, visa offices outside and in Canada. Click Here for Details

Court of Canadian Citizenship:

• Information and advice to the public on citizenship
• conducts hearings and court ceremonies
• application kits for acquiring or proving Canadian citizenship available on website or by telephone

Enforcement and Control:

• Investigates offences and enforces the Immigration Act and Regulations
• regulates and facilitates the entry of visitors or immigrants to Canada at port of entry
• various application kits available for mail-in service

Immigration Recruitment and Selection:

• Accepts and processes applications from groups for the sponsoring of refugees
• all other applications must be mailed to the address provided in the application kit

InMyLanguage.org Website

• InMyLanguage.org provides multilingual information for newcomers to Ontario, Canada
• All translations have been completed by certified translators
• InMyLanguage.org is managed by OCASI (Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants) and funded by Citizenship and Immigration Canada

Click Here to use Website

COVID-19 Important Information: this location has now reopened for in-person service either waiting in line for first come first served, or by the option of filling out a service request for an appointment; see more information here

Assistance locating and applying for:

• Employment Insurance
• Social Insurance Numbers
• Canada Pension Plan
• Old Age Security
• Passports
• Dual Citizenship
• Apprenticeship Incentive Grant
• Canada Education Savings Grant
• conducts public speaking and seminars to employers, labour associations, community organizations and general public
• provides special and personalized service to claimants experiencing difficulties with employment insurance
• Liaison with potential employers in the community

Enhances public awareness of:

• the Employment Insurance program
• Canada Pension Plan Benefits
• Old Age Security Benefits
• Employment Programs

Access to wide range of Ontario government services and information, staff assistance, information and referral

Driver and Vehicle

• Driver's licence renewal
• Get an accessible parking permit
• Renew, replace or change an accessible parking permit
• Driver records (Driver's Abstract)
• Change address: driver's licence
• Renew a driver's licence
• Replace a driver's licence
• Vehicle registration: plate/permit
• Personalized licence plates
• Used vehicle information package (UVIP)
• Buy/sell a used vehicle in Ontario
• Register a farm vehicle
• Vehicle records
• Special permit
• Change address: vehicle permit
• Get vintage licence plates for classic cars
• Demerit Point Inquires (Drivers Abstract)

Identification and certificates

• Ontario Photo Card
• Birth certificate (online or by mail)
• Marriage certificate (online or by mail)
• Death certificate (online or by mail)
• Change your last name
• Change a child's name
• Change name (for adults)
• Sex designation change

Other Services

• Health Card and Insurance (OHIP)
• Ontario Photo Card
• Organ and tissue donation registration
• Fishing, hunting and camping licenses
• Newborn registration
• Business services, taxes
• Housing and property (filing of Landlord and Tenant applications)
• Authentication of documents (Commissioner of Oaths available to sign various forms - call ahead, limited to certain forms, depending on requirements requested)

Online services

• Many services can now be done online including applications, registrations and renewals. Click here for more information.

Processes applications for Canadian passports for foreign travel

• Provides information on foreign consulates in Canada
• Immigration and Citizenship Information Click Here
• Application for Canadian citizens living in the United States
• Children under the age of 16 need not be present at time of application for passport

For Canadians living in the USA or Abroad:

• If a passport is required in exceptional circumstances, contact the nearest Canadian government office. Click Here

Passport Receiving Agents

• Many Service Canada Centres are passport receiving agents, giving Canadians broader access to passport services across the country
• Receiving Agents can accept standard passport applications, review application to make sure it is complete, collect fee payment and supporting documents (proof of citizenship, identity document and photos), and send application to Passport Canada for processing.

* Click Here for Documents Accepted or not Accepted by the receiving agents


To view a summary of acceptable ID for crossing the border into the United States Click here



ePassport (also known as Biometrics)

• Adult applicants will have the option of a 5 or 10 year ePassport for both first-time applications and renewals
• Children's ePassports will be issued for a maximum of 5 years.
• Click here for more information

For passports needed in 26 business days or more, you can go to any Service Canada Centre.

Access to Government of Ontario services and documentation

Services at this location:

• drivers license
• vehicle permits, plates and stickers
• accessible parking permit
• driver and vehicle records
• health card and insurance (OHIP)
• organ and tissue donation
• photo card

Information and processing of Canadian passport applications * passports can normally be obtained in 20 working days from the date of application (10 working days if done in person)

Passports can be picked up by the applicant or (if the application was submitted in person) a person authorized by the applicant through a letter of authorization

Access to Government of Ontario services and documentation

Services at this location:

• drivers license
• vehicle permits, plates and stickers
• accessible parking permit
• driver and vehicle records
• health card and insurance (OHIP)
• organ and tissue donation
• photo card