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[jajdude]

A co-worker called the Canadian Consulate in Pusan and was told they cannot renew a passport there. I find that odd. I'm checking if anyone else knows about this. It will be a hassle to have to go to Seoul when Pusan is a good bit nearer.

[denverdeath]

I had one done there...at least at the old location. However, it's not machine readable. You're right about it being a pain to go to Seoul as I'll have to get another in a year or two. I applied here and it was done in Seoul. Must have sth to do with the War on Terror or sth.

[Corporal]

The service at the Busan consulate sucks, not least of all because they often give out wrong or conflicting information.

[jajdude]

My current passport is not machine readable, no problems thus far. It does expire in September though, and has no blank pages left in it.

[just because]

What is a machine readable passport????

[some waygug-in]

I had to go to Seoul to renew mine, but I was able to pick it up at the Busan consulate, so it saved me from making 2 trips.

[ttompatz]

[plattwaz]

I can only suppose that not renewing them in Korea can only be a good thing - I had mine done last summer at the Seoul consulate and the staff were so disgustingly horrifyingly rude to me that I wrote a letter to my MP and the Passport Office in Ottwa -- of course, it didn't actually DO anything by writing these letters, except allow me the honour of receiving a "Thank you for writing with your complaint..."

But honestly, the staff there treated me like I was a piece of dirt off the street, the woman actually reprimanded me for having a full passport, demanding to know WHY my passport was full, 2 years before it expired....

[peppermint]

They don't renew passports anywhere in country now- they have to be processed in Missassauga ( better the passport go there than me!) and then they send them back to you, according to the Canadian embassy site:


http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/korea/can_passport_app-en.asp