Police certificate – RCMP Entire Holdings?

[wav_m 84]

Hi all – I am hoping you can provide a very quick sense/sanity check on my Canadian police certificate, which arrived today. I requested it through Commissionaires, and specifically asked them to search RCMP National Repository Entire Holdings. However, I can't see that wording anywhere on the certificate.

 

Here's what it looks like. Do I have the right certificate, or do I need to request a new one?

[Leo The Great 141]

Correct one

[Leo The Great 141]

1 minute ago, Leo The Great said:

Correct one

Your application for personal information held in the National
Repository of Criminal Records has been processed

[0508 57]

yes this is the right one! i went and got the other one and had to redo it lol

[Shades8 36]

On 7/10/2023 at 6:50 PM, 0508 said:

yes this is the right one! i went and got the other one and had to redo it lol

Which one did you originally ask for? I am on week 4 of waiting for mine and now I’m worried I requested the wrong one! I went to commissionaires and she asked me what it was for and I said immigration so she checked that option. Not sure if this was the right one or not.  

[wav_m 84]

9 minutes ago, Shades8 said:

Which one did you originally ask for? I am on week 4 of waiting for mine and now I’m worried I requested the wrong one! I went to commissionaires and she asked me what it was for and I said immigration so she checked that option. Not sure if this was the right one or not.  

If it helps, I requested a "certified criminal record check for personal use, subtype Other" and asked that it include "RCMP National Repository entire holdings." That's based on the DoS website as well as advice I found on VJ.

[Shades8 36]

6 minutes ago, wav_m said:

If it helps, I requested a "certified criminal record check for personal use, subtype Other" and asked that it include "RCMP National Repository entire holdings." That's based on the DoS website as well as advice I found on VJ.

Right then I did mess it up.  The Commissionaires asked me what it was for and then picked visa type when I said it was for a green card application.  So I guess I just lost a whole month on that and have to start over on this step.   Argh. 

[wav_m 84]

Just now, Shades8 said:

Right then I did mess it up.  The Commissionaires asked me what it was for and then picked visa type when I said it was for a green card application.  So I guess I just lost a whole month on that and have to start over on this step.   Argh. 

I'm really sorry to be the bearer of bad news. The Canadian police certificate process is really confusing and opaque – I hope you can get the mistake corrected easily and quickly.

[Shades8 36]

35 minutes ago, wav_m said:

I'm really sorry to be the bearer of bad news. The Canadian police certificate process is really confusing and opaque – I hope you can get the mistake corrected easily and quickly.

Thank you. I don’t know if I should just start over or try to contact CCRTIS. I guess at least  I found this out before I submitted the wrong one to NVC which probably would of been an even longer delay.  

[0508 57]

14 hours ago, Shades8 said:

Which one did you originally ask for? I am on week 4 of waiting for mine and now I’m worried I requested the wrong one! I went to commissionaires and she asked me what it was for and I said immigration so she checked that option. Not sure if this was the right one or not.  

i had requested the right one but they gave me the wrong one- it's a matter of them ticking the correct box at the bottom. it needs to be "personal" and "other".

if it helps at all, i think it typically takes 4-6 weeks for the right one to come!

here's a photo below of the correct one-

 

[wav_m 84]

11 minutes ago, 0508 said:

i had requested the right one but they gave me the wrong one- it's a matter of them ticking the correct box at the bottom. it needs to be "personal" and "other".

if it helps at all, i think it typically takes 4-6 weeks for the right one to come!

here's a photo below of the correct one-

 

I'll add that based on conversations with other people who have recently needed Canadian police certificates, the correct certificate no longer makes reference to 'databank CMP-PPU-030'. Mine (and others') read: 'Your application for personal information held in the National Repository of Criminal Records has been processed. No personal information about you was found in the National Repository of Criminal Records.'

[Shades8 36]

I had to go back to the commissionaires and start over with a new request for the right one.  I am annoyed at myself for not paying attention to this detail.  When I went in a month ago I told them it was for a US green card applications and then just trusted she had picked the right type.  So I’m now looking at a 2 to 3 month delay just for this RCMP check.  Soooooo frustrating.  

[mam521 2,108]

15 hours ago, Shades8 said:

Which one did you originally ask for? I am on week 4 of waiting for mine and now I’m worried I requested the wrong one! I went to commissionaires and she asked me what it was for and I said immigration so she checked that option. Not sure if this was the right one or not.  

@wav_m is correct - the process is rather opaque and has caused confusion for many, many moons.  When you tell the agent "immigration", they assume for a visa for work or something like that and you often get a PRC with fingerprints.  They don't know that in reality, it's for permanent residency and that the US essentially wants the FBI holdings equivalent.  

[nassersalem 0]

Hello everyone
 I live in Calgary, Canada, and I would like to obtain a police certificate (certified criminal record check) for the purpose of the American green card, and I do not know how to get it and where to get it. I have been searching for a month, please help and guide me about the steps. Thank you

[TJSingleBarrel 7]

Hello, I just received mine and it has my fingerprints and photo... I believe it is incorrect. The commissionaire who did it and the admin at the RCMP both had no idea what I was looking for. I printed the police certificate info from https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/Visa-Reciprocity-and-Civil-Documents-by-Country/Canada.html and brought it with me to assist them but I am worried this is the wrong form....

 

Help! Do I need to go back and get another one? Can anyone advise what went wrong with mine and how I can communicate with them to ensure I receive the correct one?