Li's passport sustained water damage on a dark and rainy night at the Aldergrove, B.C. Temporary passports could total $800Now he says passport officials have told him he'll only be eligible for temporary passports every two years for the next eight and a half years, until his damaged passport expires in 2025. It's all because the damaged passport was a replacement for one that had been stolen from his vehicle 19 months ago. Li says passport officials decided a stolen passport, then a damaged replacement, was "a long history." Just how can this be, if you lost your passport once, and it happened a second time, you have to get a temporary passport for eight and a half years," he said.

Source: CBC News March 15, 2017 04:30 UTC