Police Clearance

[BlueBonnet 84]

So yesterday I went to get my police clearance as per Pkg 3. The officer said it will take 4-5 weeks to arrive as they are really back logged. I have everything else on my end, just waiting for my fiance to get the finacials together. Ive asked him not to send anything or date anything until I have a consualte date. But Im afraid to make a consualte date. What I can see if I sent pkg. 3 in tomorrow, its about a month before I would recieve a letter. The letter would probably have the interview date 3-4 weeks after that. So as I can see, if I requested the interview tomorrow, I would be looking around 7 weeks till the actual date. Heres the thing, Im very organised, and although I hope for the best, you have to expect hiccups. Im just to afraid to scheduale the interview without actualy holding the police report in my hands ... but I really dont want to interview in December ... standing outside the consualte in the cold for hours ... brrrrr.

What would you do ? Send in Pkg 3 and hope that in 7 weeks you have everything, or hold off until you actualy do have everything ?

[Inky 1,110]

It depends if you are interviewing in montreal or vancouver. Montreal has LONG wait times for interviews right now. So you could send your stuff in and have time. Vancouver is opterating a little faster, personally I would send it in and hope you get it because if you dont then you can get an approval pending you giving them your police cert then just get issued the visa.

[BlueBonnet 84]

Oh nice.

So I can just return my checklist, maybe mark the Police Cert. as requested .. and if not available at time of interview, its not considered a big deal ? Find out if approved and if yes, pending results of cert, I could get approved, with no visa, until they recieve it ?

I have no issues with the cert. I have no criminal record. Unless they hold minor traffic violations from 20 years ago against you .. Im in the clear.

[JeannieL 44]

I went to the local RCMP detachment here and had my police clearance in just a few hours. I signed the form in the morning and picked it up a few hours later. They even gave me 3 certified copies.

[bluenoser77 0]

So yesterday I went to get my police clearance as per Pkg 3. The officer said it will take 4-5 weeks to arrive as they are really back logged. I have everything else on my end, just waiting for my fiance to get the finacials together. Ive asked him not to send anything or date anything until I have a consualte date. But Im afraid to make a consualte date. What I can see if I sent pkg. 3 in tomorrow, its about a month before I would recieve a letter. The letter would probably have the interview date 3-4 weeks after that. So as I can see, if I requested the interview tomorrow, I would be looking around 7 weeks till the actual date. Heres the thing, Im very organised, and although I hope for the best, you have to expect hiccups. Im just to afraid to scheduale the interview without actualy holding the police report in my hands ... but I really dont want to interview in December ... standing outside the consualte in the cold for hours ... brrrrr.

What would you do ? Send in Pkg 3 and hope that in 7 weeks you have everything, or hold off until you actualy do have everything ?

Yes, you can check that you have all the documents even though you are technically waiting on some. It's probably a good idea to just send pkg 3 in and wait for the interview. I imagine you will have police clearance by then anyway. If not, you can either reschedule your appointment when you get your interview letter or you can go to the interview and then have to send in the remaining required docs when you get them. I would do the latter, but again, you probably will have everything on time anyway.

Good luck!

[BlueBonnet 84]

Actualy ... I looked up the RCMP. Its $50 instead of the $30, but its 24 hours.

So on Tuesday ... Im going to make an appointment .. and request through the RCMP. Thanks for the advise.

[soscolin 2]

I got my RCMP certificate in 20 minutes in person at the local RCMP dispatch twice--once in 2008 and recently when frst one expired. and yes it's 50 dollars. Colin

Actualy ... I looked up the RCMP. Its $50 instead of the $30, but its 24 hours.

So on Tuesday ... Im going to make an appointment .. and request through the RCMP. Thanks for the advise.