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• Features of the EDL and EIC
• Radio Frequency Identification
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• Using your EDL or EIC to enter the U.S.
• Handling your personal information
• Changes to your EDL or EIC
• Optional consent to future
  contact for client surveys
• You may be refused an EDL or EIC
• Appendices - Tables & forms

Applicant's Guide

You may be refused an EDL or EIC, or your card can be suspended or cancelled

Manitoba Public Insurance may refuse to issue you an EDL or EIC, or may suspend or cancel your card after it’s been issued. The reasons for these actions are described below, along with your options for launching an appeal of the decision.

Grounds that cannot be appealed

When you do not meet the eligibility criteria for an EDL or EIC, Manitoba Public Insurance may refuse to issue or may suspend or cancel your card after it’s been issued.

Manitoba Public Insurance’s decision is final and not subject to appeal.

If your EDL is suspended, you may still be eligible to obtain a non-enhanced driver’s licence.

Grounds that can be appealed to the Licence Suspension Appeal Board

Manitoba Public Insurance may suspend, cancel or refuse to issue an EDL or EIC where there is reason to believe, based on your past conduct or on offences you have committed, that you have misused, or that you are likely to misuse, an EDL or EIC.

Manitoba Public Insurance may suspend, cancel or refuse to issue an EDL where there is reason to believe, based on your past conduct or on offences you have committed, that you have a history of contravening, or are likely to contravene specifi c offences under Manitoba legislation related to the fraudulent use of a driver’s licence or registration; or offences under The Highway Traffi c Act, The Drivers and Vehicles Act or The Manitoba Public Insurance Corporation Act related to making false statements and reports.

You may appeal a decision to refuse to issue, or to suspend or cancel an EDL or EIC for the above reasons to the Licence Suspension Appeal Board, but you must do so within six months of Manitoba Public Insurance’s decision. You can contact the Board by phone at 204-947-7350 or by mail at 200-301 Weston Street, Winnipeg, MB, R3E 3H4.

Offences related to an EDL or EIC

It is an offence under The Drivers and Vehicles Act, with respect to an identification card, to:

• make a false or misleading statement in your application;
• permit another person to use your card;
• use another person’s card;
• possess another person’s card without their permission (a parent or legal guardian may retain or hold an Enhanced Identification Card for their child);
• alter a card so as to be misleading or falsify a card;
• possess or use an altered or falsified card; or
• possess or use a fictitious document purporting to be an EDL or EIC.

It is an offence under The Highway Traffic Act, with respect to a driver's licence, to:

• apply for or obtain a new licence
  • if your licence is suspended or you are disqualified from holding a licence, or
  • if you have not reinstated your licence and right to hold a licence after a suspension or cancellation;
• use a driver’s licence that is not valid;
• hold, at any time,
  • both a valid Manitoba driver’s licence and valid out-of-province driving permit, or
  • more than one valid out-of-province driving permit.

Manitoba Public Insurance or a peace officer may seize an EDL or EIC if there are reasonable grounds to believe it has been altered or falsified, is not accurate or valid, is not lawfully in the possession of the person who provided or produced it, or has been provided or produced to mislead Manitoba Public Insurance or a peace officer or for another fraudulent or unlawful purpose.

If you believe that your privacy rights are being violated, or if you have a privacy concern, please see Additional privacy information and how to raise a privacy concern.