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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
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Sakshi Gupta

Passport Canada Says Sorry to Grandma for Saying She Can't List Palestine as Birthplace

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Passport Canada has issued an apology after informing a 90-year-old woman that she could not list Palestine as her country of birth on her new passport.

The department was forced to retract and explain its clerical error after the elderly woman's granddaughter shared the incident on social media platform, TikTok, which has garnered over a million views and thousands of angry comments.

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