important documents:

• Passports – yours and your children’s 

• Birth certificates – yours and your children’s 

• All identity cards (including: Medicare/RAMQ, driver’s license, social insurance) 

• Credit cards

• Any immigration documents, citizenship card

• Diplomas

• Tax returns

• Important bills

• Legal guardianship of children

• Children’s vaccination booklets 

• Adoption papers

• Banking documents, check book etc.

• Housing documents (copy of lease / mortgage)

• Marriage license and / or divorce certificate

• Any documents that can be evidence of abuse (threatening notes, copies of police and medical reports, photos of physical injuries or photos of damage to your property, a personal journal noting dates of incidents, etc).