Non resident police check requirement(split)

[Nikkif99uk 0]

Is this the same for a British Citizen who lived in Canada for 3 years. Do i need to get ink fingerprints taken in the UK to be sent to a Canadian company to be digitised? I'm in the K1 visa process. My case has been sitting at NVC since April and the UK police stations are still closed for fingerprinting so checking I definitely need fingerprints

[Greenbaum 12,259]

On 8/20/2020 at 7:09 AM, Nikkif99uk said:

Is this the same for a British Citizen who lived in Canada for 3 years. Do i need to get ink fingerprints taken in the UK to be sent to a Canadian company to be digitised? I'm in the K1 visa process. My case has been sitting at NVC since April and the UK police stations are still closed for fingerprinting so checking I definitely need fingerprints

You'll find your answer here: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/Visa-Reciprocity-and-Civil-Documents-by-Country/Canada.html

[Ontarkie 14,226]

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[ONtoHOU 228]

On 8/20/2020 at 6:09 AM, Nikkif99uk said:

Is this the same for a British Citizen who lived in Canada for 3 years. Do i need to get ink fingerprints taken in the UK to be sent to a Canadian company to be digitised? I'm in the K1 visa process. My case has been sitting at NVC since April and the UK police stations are still closed for fingerprinting so checking I definitely need fingerprints

@Nikkif99uk Based on the fact that you lived in Canada for 3 years, NVC will request a police certificate from Canada. The good news, the validity of that certificate is indefinite as long as you don't return to Canada after the certificate was issued (i.e. before your K1 visa is issued).  The RCMP has details on how to obtain a certified criminal record check from outside of Canada here: https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/steps-getting-a-certified-criminal-record-check. 

[AC_ 29]

On 8/20/2020 at 12:09 PM, Nikkif99uk said:

Is this the same for a British Citizen who lived in Canada for 3 years. Do i need to get ink fingerprints taken in the UK to be sent to a Canadian company to be digitised? I'm in the K1 visa process. My case has been sitting at NVC since April and the UK police stations are still closed for fingerprinting so checking I definitely need fingerprints

Hi there. I also lived in Canada for 3 years and had to do this process back in June. Yes you do need to get ink/digital fingerprints from a police station.

 

You shouldn't have any issue getting a police station to take your prints now. As I said I did mine in June, I'm in Scotland and I had zero issues. Police stations are not closed, back in June I was advised that there were staff shortages. You may want to call the police's non-emergency number (101) for details on appointments and prices in your local area. I paid £114.00 to get two sets of ink prints, I was told to do a walk-in at the police station in my nearest city at 8:30am morning and I was seen within 20 minutes. 

 

I used Commissionaires Ottawa agency and it went very smoothly. Whichever agency you choose in Canada will give you detailed instructions on what they need. I paid $175 CAD. The agency hands it off to the RCMP, who will then send you the certificate directly (due to the request being privacy act). Since the postal system was and is all backed up, they actually asked for a US/Canadian address to send it to but I just gave them my fiance's address in the US. There is no tracking option sadly. The process took over a month. The delay for me was the Canadian postage system, it took about 3 weeks for my prints to even arrive in Canada. The agency had my prints to the RCMP the very same day they got them, the RCMP processed them within 2 days and postage to the US took two weeks.

 

Hope this helps and all the best. 

Edited August 22, 2020 by AC_