Canadian police check waiting time

[gbell 0]

Hello,

I'm applying for a criminal background check for Canada as part of the US spouse visa application. The RCMP website says the processing time 'could exceed four months'. I'm wondering if anybody here has gone through a similar Canadian background check and how long the process took. I simply cannot afford to wait four months or more. I'm not living in Canada at the moment.

Thanks for sharing.

Gabbie

[canadian_wife 1,822]

Not living in Canada will increase the wait time (obviously). Mine took 3 weeks, I walked into the Toronto Police station and had it mailed to me in 3 weeks

Good luck

[Armenia 18]

I requested my fingerprint-based RCMP criminal record check this year.

Aug 23, 2010 - RCMP-Ottawa received my request via courier

Oct 6 - Criminal Record Search completed

Oct 7 - RCMP certificate issued

Oct 19 - My husband, in the US, received the RCMP certificate (snail mail between the US and Canada is very slow).

I did not include a prepaid courier/Canada Post Xpresspost envelope in my request (which would have insured that my husband received the certificate in 2 days instead of 12 days) because the RCMP website said that "The results are always returned by regular mail." (http://www.rcmp-grc....g-empr2-eng.htm).