Wrong immigration information…
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
I got a call the other day from the lovely folks over at Immigration Canada. Apparently when I was told over the phone that they would send a corrected Working Holiday Permit to me in the mail, they were wrong. I had to then fill out a few forms then go hang out in their Hornby St office for an hour before it took 30 seconds to hand those forms over, plus I had to pay them $30 for the pleasure of fixing their border guards mistake.
Moral of the story? Check your permit to make sure they spell your name right!
Upshot of this is that if you do need to make any changes to your permit, or you lose it, then you follow the procedure. Say you get married in Canada and want to change your name on both the passport and permit, then you can do it using these forms.
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/applications/certcopy.asp
Basically you fill in the Verification of Entry form, the Supplementary form, and the Payment form, then get photocopies of your passport picture page, the page that has the stamp and signature from when you entered the country, and a photocopy of the permit itself. For better instructions, follow what the Instruction Guide says 
