Social Insurance Number
Use Service Canada’s application or update route, depending on what you need to change.
Identity & documents
Find the organization that issues the document before starting an application. Social Insurance Numbers and Canadian passports follow federal routes; Ontario birth certificates and Photo Cards use provincial services.
Choose the right starting point
Passport
Choose the new-passport or renewal instructions. Do not assume the same document checklist applies to both.
Provincial identity records
Choose the province that handles the record. An address update is a separate task from obtaining a new document.
Related step-by-step guides
- Apply for a Social Insurance Number
- Update or confirm a Social Insurance Number
- Renew a Canadian adult passport
- Apply for a new Canadian adult passport
- Order or replace an Ontario birth certificate
- Get or renew an Ontario Photo Card
- Update your address with Ontario services
- Check federal voter registration
- Apply for a Canadian child passport
- Replace a lost or stolen Canadian passport
- Apply for an Ontario marriage licence
- Apply for a child’s Social Insurance Number
- Change a child’s last name in Manitoba
- Register a newborn’s birth in Manitoba
- Renew an adult Canadian passport outside Canada and the US
- Renew an adult Canadian passport from the United States
- Prepare for a new baby
- What to do after someone dies
Choose a province or territory
Regional directories help with tasks that are administered outside the federal government.