Mohamed Fahmy and Gary Caroline

identification document: He has trouble proving his identity at police checkpoints, is unable to carry out basic banking and can't get married to the fiancee who has stood by him through his ordeal, according to Guelph Mercury. He also has no official identification document to provide to officials at his next court appearance later this month. Mohamed Fahmy — who spent more than a year in a Cairo prison and has been working to get a passport ever since his release on bail in February — claims the lack of official documentation has placed him in a precarious situation. Fahmy Vancouver-based lawyer, Gary Caroline, claims there is nothing in Canadian law that should prevent Fahmy from being issued a new passport, nor is there any indication Egypt courts don't want the 40-year-old to have one. "The only impediment is Canada," Caroline told The Canadian Press. "Canadian citizens are entitled to a passport unless there a darn good reason why not... The 'why not' doesn't apply to Mohamed case. After initially believing Egyptian authorities were preventing him from getting a new Canadian passport, Fahmy learned late last week that it was in fact Ottawa decision not to issue him one. There is no condition being placed on him by the court in Egypt or the Egyptian authorities that would somehow mean that he can't have his passport replaced." Fahmy original Canadian passport was never recovered after being seized by Egyptian authorities when he was arrested in December 2013 while working for satellite news broadcaster Al Jazeera English. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.