Certify photocopies/copies for Foreign PR

05/16/24 @UhOhDetran.  Since January, Canada has participated in the Apostille Convention, so document certification processes between Brazil and Canada SHOULD have become simpler, with both countries accepting each other's documents with the proper apostille attached.  I'd suggest checking with the Canadian Consulate General in São Paulo for guidance on how document certifications are now being addressed handled under the Apostille Convention.

@UhOhDetran did this way back for my wife. Where in Cda are you?? You need to have a translator here do all your docs. Marriage  certificate for starters if you married her here in Brazil. Go to the cda immigration  website and d/l all the forms n start filling them all in. You will need one special form from CRA to get a specific number from your taxes. It's in the one finance form. You need to call them to get them to send it to you. It's  time consuming and alot of repetitive  info bit pretty easy to do. Took me 7 months at the time tonget her there.

@abthree. If I understand correctly, an Apostille is slightly different than copy certification, where someone writes "this is a true copy of the original" on the copy. The immigration website still seems to want the latter.

@Cserebogar .. I'm still in Brazil. We're moving to Canada later this year. I've already got a certified translator in Canada and I've collected all the docs. I've already filled out all the forms. I was just wondering about getting certified photocopies, but I think I've got to do that of all the copies I already have. I'm not sure what to do about the digital copies (like of bills to prove we share the same address here in Brazil), but we'll ask the courthouse later this week.

Thanks!

    05/27/24 @abthree. If I understand correctly, an Apostille is slightly different than copy certification, where someone writes "this is a true copy of the original" on the copy. The immigration website still seems to want the latter.

Thanks!
   

    -@UhOhDetran

You may well find that the Canadian Consulate is no longer willing to legalize documents,  now that Canada has adhered to the Convention.   Better check with them.

        05/27/24 @abthree. If I understand correctly, an Apostille is slightly different than copy certification, where someone writes "this is a true copy of the original" on the copy. The immigration website still seems to want the latter.Thanks!        -@UhOhDetran

You may well find that the Canadian Consulate is no longer willing to legalize documents,  now that Canada has adhered to the Convention.   Better check with them.
   

    -@abthree

Thanks. It's not exactly legalization either. From the website, it states that "To have a photocopy of a document certified, an authorized person must compare the original document to the photocopy and must print all of the following on the photocopy." In particular, "“I certify that this is a true copy of the original document”.

Therefore, the process is not legalization, it's just showing a document to someone to get a copy that is the same as the original. In other words, a certified copy is just a copy in which someone with authority has said that the copy is an identical copy and not a modified copy.

Just an update. I got some certified copies of bills, birth certificate, and marriage certificate at the local tabelião. They do the required stamp -- just for further reference.

You get your notarized copies apostillied. This works going in either direction.

@Gasparzinho 777 : Just for reference, Canada immigation does not require apostilled documents.

Not yet lol !!