PCC (police clearance certificate) from India - second interview at Montreal.

[Antony61022 0]

Question: PCC (police clearance certificate) from India - second interview at Montreal.

Our 601 got approved couple of days ago. It took more than 8 months.

Hope someone could guide me on this.Please remove post if not in the correct forum.

I am an Indian citizen but a resident of Canada since the last 5 years. I had applied for my 601 waiver last year for which I had to go for an interview in Montreal (April 2015) which was denied(expected) and was suggested to apply for a waiver. Now before this interview, I was required to get my PCC, both from Canada and India. Candian PCC was a straightforward process. The process to get the PCC for India was through BLS - International & I got it within 2 months . So, I have a PCC from India which was dated September 23, 2014. Now they say the validity of it expires after 6 months . Today I am in the process of waiting for my Instruction Letter from the Consulate in Montreal(post 601 approval). Part of those instructions (Packet IV) would be to get a new PCC. They have kind of a standard checklist and for PCC this is (usually) mentioned:

"Each visa applicant aged 16 years or older must submit a police certificate from every country where he/she resided for at least 6 months after the age of 16."

I've already applied for the local PCC (Canada).

The Big Question is:

Would I necessarily require a new PCC from India (via BLS) again even though I have not travelled back to India since I received the initial PCC from India?

I believe I would NOT have to and these are my reasons:

1) They would know from my passport that I have not travelled to India since initial PCC.

2) As per the official US website for collecting supporting documents -(under)Police Certificates- it says:

"Police certificates expire after one year, unless the certificate was issued from your country of previous residence and you have not returned there since the police certificate was issued."

https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/immigrate/immigrant-process/documents/Supporting_documents.html

3) I have requested Canada Border Services Agency for a copy of my travelling history as additional proof.

http://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/

Does anyone think otherwise? What do you think? Has anyone faced this situation? Any input would be nice.

Appreciate your time and information.

*We should have applied for a second PCC in the interim wait period, but the paranoia and mayhem of waiting for an update from USCIS kept us sqaushed*

[Ryan H 3,826]

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