Secure Certificate of Indian Status (SCIS) Applications

SCIS Applications can now be done as remotely as possible until the Indian Registration Administrator (IRA) meets you at the Main Administration entrance for signatures. You will need to answer security questions and then provide contact information and mailing address over the phone, (for SCIS) provide 2 passport photos (IDA does passport photos), and provide valid government-issued photo ID for photocopying at time of signature. Applications will be sent to the National SCIS Processing Unit office in Gatineau, Quebec within a week of application.

Birth Registrations

Birth Registrations can also be done as remotely as possible until IRA meets you at the Main Administration entrance for signatures. You will need to answer security questions then provide contact information and mailing address over the phone, and provide valid government-issued Photo ID for photocopying at time of signature. Birth Registration will be mailed to BC Regional Office by IRA. Processing time is 6 months to 2 years for Birth Registrations.

Life Events (Marriage, Change of Name, Divorce, or Death) 

Life events such as marriage, change of name, divorce, or death, are to be recorded by arranging a time via phone call or email to meet at the front door or can be mailed to the main office, Attention: Kerry Alec, Indian Registration Administrator.

What information that IRA requires:

• Your full name as it is on your status card

• Status number (10 digits)

• Registry number on your status card (usually on the top corner different from your status number)

• Exactly what is written for your band (such as if it has whut’en or nation, etc.)

• Your address, phone number, email address

• Expiry date of your status card

• Another form of photo ID, expiry date, and registry number (ID can be Driver’s License, BC Health Card, etc.)

Completed SCIS forms can be mailed to:

National SCIS Processing Unit
Indigenous Services Canada
10 Rue Wellington
Gatineau QC, K1A 0H4