Canada Police Certificate

[Darth_wader29 0]

Does anyone have any experience with getting a police certificate from Canada recently? Old information says we can submit on paper, but the RCMP website states all submissions must be electronic, limiting us to "accredited businesses" if we are international. The accredited business also happen to charge $150+ for the service.

What are your experiences?

[Soapies 18]

hrm, I got one in October and all I did was walk into the police station downtown and ask them for a police check. They asked what the reason was and I said "Immigration". They handed me a piece of paper to fill out and paid a $40 fee... A few weeks later I got it in the mail. Maybe it's different depending on province or city? Did you contact the local police station? :/

[Lemonslice 4,549]

Does anyone have any experience with getting a police certificate from Canada recently? Old information says we can submit on paper, but the RCMP website states all submissions must be electronic, limiting us to "accredited businesses" if we are international. The accredited business also happen to charge $150+ for the service.

What are your experiences?

It depends if you're currently in Canada or not. See:

travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/fees/reciprocity-by-country/CA.html

[Darth_wader29 0]

Sorry, I should have been more specific. I'm in the US, she's in Japan. She needs it since she spent time living there.

[Lemonslice 4,549]

... Yes, we received communication sometimes last year about the electronic request - I know a couple of people who went with the international service from the Commissionnaires - I would contact them to see the next steps while in Japan.

[Soapies 18]

Ah sorry. :/

[ChristieLindsay 1]

Sorry, I should have been more specific. I'm in the US, she's in Japan. She needs it since she spent time living there.

Just got ours a few weeks ago.

If she had no arrests you can call them and process it. If she has a record of any type she has to be electronically fingerprinted ( can be in Japan just has to follow a proper chain of custody).

There are other variables but the easiest way is to just call the region she lived in and ask what's best for THEM.

[aara1988 1]

Does anyone have any experience with getting a police certificate from Canada recently? Old information says we can submit on paper, but the RCMP website states all submissions must be electronic, limiting us to "accredited businesses" if we are international. The accredited business also happen to charge $150+ for the service.

What are your experiences?

Yes, I live in Spain and the only way to do it from here according to the Canadian Embassy and that RMP webpage is to use an accredited agency. I had to go to a police office in Spain to have my fingerprints taken, send my fingerprints to that agency to have them digitalized and then they're supposed to send that to the Canadian Police, get my record and send it to me. All of that: 200 CAD. A lot.

I got an e-mail some days ago saying that my fingerprints were already sent to the police, so I should get my record soon (maybe in one week).

I didn't have any arrests, of course. So if it could have been done just by calling, I was tricked by both the Canadian Embassy in Madrid and the RMP http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/cr-cj/index-eng.htmto spend that much money.

Edited November 27, 2014 by aara1988

[Balance Snapshot 0]

Does anyone have any experience with getting a police certificate from Canada recently? Old information says we can submit on paper, but the RCMP website states all submissions must be electronic, limiting us to "accredited businesses" if we are international. The accredited business also happen to charge $150+ for the service.

What are your experiences?

I did request the criminal record check report about 4-5 months ago. Sent email to several accredited companies asking about their fingerprint service

and decided to choose one of them based on the lowest fee they charged.

The company charged about CAD 90 (cardscan fee+HST) + CAD 25 (RCMP fee) = about CAD 115

Three days after the company submitted the electronic fingerprint to RCMP, RCMP completed the criminal check and sent out the result to this company.

The company scanned the result and emailed the scanned version and sent the original report to me.

[Darth_wader29 0]

Thank you for the input everyone, we appreciate it. Next step will be to contact the local police department where she lived and see what they suggest.

If we can get by with just a name check, as ChristieLindsay suggested, that would be even better. As aara1988 mentioned, the 3rd party agency route seems like it's very expensive.

[leadeschamp 0]

Hi guys,

So I see you are talking about the police record from Canada .

Here's my situation,

I am French, living in France and I studied in Montreal,Quebec for 3 years. Never got arrested there.

I wanted to know if you absolutely need a fingerprint based police certificate or If you can just get a name checked based to bring to the Interview.

I'm confused because the website ***removed*** says that you just need the name check based certificate for US immigration

In case I need fingerprints, how long did it take you guys with commisionnaires?

thanks!

[TNJ17 1,329]

Does anyone haveupdated information about how to get a Canadian police certificate if you’re not a Canadian citizen or live in Canada at the moment? Need one for K-1. 

[TNJ17 1,329]

Alright I wanted to update this in case someone else is looking for information. So, after an extensive search I found out that if you are not a Canadian Citizen or Permanent Resident you need to get a full background check with fingerprints. You cannot get a simple name and date of birth check. 

 

So what you need to do to proceed is actually quite simple. You need to hire a third party company that will do the work for you. There are plenty out there and the best, simplest, fastest, and more comprehensive one I found is Fingerprint Room. What you need to do is go on their website download and fill all of their forms. Then print the fingerprint one and go to your local police station with the form and tell them you need to be fingerprinted for foreign visa purposes, and ask them to fill the form out for you. After you do that you scan all your forms and email to FR and snail mail it too. They start processing as soon as they receive your email and the turnaround time for the police certificate is 2 weeks including shipping. 

 

The only down to this is that it’s quite costly, $250 but it includes everything. But what else isn’t costly in this process and it saves you from spending money by having to go to Canada to have this done. So much cheaper than a plane ticket. 

 

Here’s the link to their website: http://www.thefingerprintroom.com/en-home/forms#formblock936

[DeepakChani 738]

On 11/27/2017 at 2:53 PM, TNJ17 said:

Alright I wanted to update this in case someone else is looking for information. So, after an extensive search I found out that if you are not a Canadian Citizen or Permanent Resident you need to get a full background check with fingerprints. You cannot get a simple name and date of birth check. 

 

So what you need to do to proceed is actually quite simple. You need to hire a third party company that will do the work for you. There are plenty out there and the best, simplest, fastest, and more comprehensive one I found is Fingerprint Room. What you need to do is go on their website download and fill all of their forms. Then print the fingerprint one and go to your local police station with the form and tell them you need to be fingerprinted for foreign visa purposes, and ask them to fill the form out for you. After you do that you scan all your forms and email to FR and snail mail it too. They start processing as soon as they receive your email and the turnaround time for the police certificate is 2 weeks including shipping. 

 

The only down to this is that it’s quite costly, $250 but it includes everything. But what else isn’t costly in this process and it saves you from spending money by having to go to Canada to have this done. So much cheaper than a plane ticket. 

 

Here’s the link to their website: http://www.thefingerprintroom.com/en-home/forms#formblock936

I hear the Commissionaires is much faster (7 to 10 day turn around) and is also cheaper ($75 CAD) - This is for the fingerprint version. If you are debating if name check will suffice, I would say get fingerprints to ease your worries. You cant go wrong with doing the fingerprints. 

[TNJ17 1,329]

2 minutes ago, deepakchani said:

I hear the Commissionaires is much faster (7 to 10 day turn around) and is also cheaper ($75 CAD) - This is for the fingerprint version. If you are debating if name check will suffice, I would say get fingerprints to ease your worries. You cant go wrong with doing the fingerprints. 

Unfortunately you can only get the no fingerprint version if you are currently in Canada or if you are a Canadian permanent resident who’s currently residing abroad. If you are a foreigner who lived in Canada and no longer does and you are no longer a permanent resident you are obligated to do the fingerprint one. That is the Canadian law.