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URGENT NOTICE – Consulate of Guyana – Toronto. Canada

Effective from November 23rd, 2020, the Government of Ontario Province has instituted lockdown measures in the Toronto and Peel Region in response to the rise in COVID-19 cases. In this regard, the Consulate has put in place mechanisms to continue to provide important consular services during this period.     

The Consulate will be closed to the public until further notice but will be conducting interviews for the following categories of consular services virtually and receiving the relevant applications via mail:

1. Life Certificates for Pensioners (return self addressed envelope required)
2. Application for new passports (return prepaid self addressed express mail
envelope required)

Following the virtual interviews, applicants would be required to mail in all the listed requirements on the Consulate’s official website https://guyanaconsulatetoronto.com/.

Additionally, applicants will also be required to mail in a prepaid, self-addressed return express/courier service envelope when mailing in their applications for the new passports.
The new passport will be returned to the applicant via the prepaid, self-addressed express/courier service envelope. Payment of application fees are to be made by money order payable to the “Consulate General of Guyana”.

The Consulate will continue to issue Emergency Travel Documents by appointments only.

Appointments for Emergency Travel Documents and for video calls for life certificates and passport applications could be made by calling 416-494-6040 or 416-494-6059 or 416-494-2679 during the hours of 9:30am-4:00pm, Mondays-Fridays.

All other in-person consular services are suspended until the lockdown measures have been lifted by the Ontario Provincial Authorities.

Consulate General of Guyana
Toronto, Canada
November 24th, 2020

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