Canadian police report

[popodita 0]

I just have a question regarding my case, according to the K1 instructions, the following items are required for the visa interview:

● Notarized police certificate. Applicants aged 16 or older must submit this form for all countries in which the applicant has resided for one year or more and wherever the applicant has been living for six months prior to the interview. Police certificates are valid for one year.

We have already submitted a Canadian police report from Toronto Police Service, but the U.S. Consulate says we still need to provide a Canadian police report with fingerprint verification.

My fiance had resided in Canada for 339 days (11 months and 5 days), it's less than one year, there are three timestamps on his passport to prove that.

Why do we need to provide this report?

[EvilSquee 7]

A passport stamp could be missed, do they have photocopies of each page of the entire thing? Was he living there less than 6 months ago? Honestly it doesn't matter, they can ask for anything they want, especially if they got a hit on any background searches they did on him themselves. The background check must be run through CPIC (national search not just an Ontario one) and it sounds like the one you provided wasn't. He needs one from the RCMP.

RCMP police records (criminal record check):

How to obtain certified criminal check

http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/cr-cj/fing-empr2-eng.htm

Police Services with electronic fingerprint submission

http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/cr-cj/ps-sp-elect-eng.htm

Processing times

http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/cr-cj/time-temps-eng.htm

Verifying request status - must wait until the wait time has passed

http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/cr-cj/app-dem-eng.htm

Make sure he gets his finger prints taken at a place that can do electronic submission, processing time is 3-4 business days vs 4 weeks (plus mail time for both) if not. Reason for request is to get a K1 visa issued. If he isn't in Canada anymore and won't be anytime soon there's a process for out-of-country requests but prepare for a long delay.

[popodita 0]

Thank you for your reply.

We've sent an appeal letter to the U.S. Consulate on 5/10/2012.

We got the Final Processing/Call-in Letter on 5/19/2012, it says YOUR IMMIGRANT (OR K) VISA APPLICATION HAS BEEN APPROVED.

A passport stamp could be missed, do they have photocopies of each page of the entire thing? Was he living there less than 6 months ago? Honestly it doesn't matter, they can ask for anything they want, especially if they got a hit on any background searches they did on him themselves. The background check must be run through CPIC (national search not just an Ontario one) and it sounds like the one you provided wasn't. He needs one from the RCMP.

RCMP police records (criminal record check):

How to obtain certified criminal check

http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/cr-cj/fing-empr2-eng.htm

Police Services with electronic fingerprint submission

http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/cr-cj/ps-sp-elect-eng.htm

Processing times

http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/cr-cj/time-temps-eng.htm

Verifying request status - must wait until the wait time has passed

http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/cr-cj/app-dem-eng.htm

Make sure he gets his finger prints taken at a place that can do electronic submission, processing time is 3-4 business days vs 4 weeks (plus mail time for both) if not. Reason for request is to get a K1 visa issued. If he isn't in Canada anymore and won't be anytime soon there's a process for out-of-country requests but prepare for a long delay.