Posted on: 15-01-06 16:40:33
Can anyone help in understanding police verification document requirement and the process for Canada Immigration from USA? THX.
I am in the same boat as yours. Infact my problem is that I am India, and I have to get FBI & state police clearance from USA.
But I guess this link might help
http://soscanada2000.com/migration/guide/police/us.html
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Thanx and regards
Tuli
P.S. When you ask a question, please send along your Date, Time and Place of Birth.
State police clearance? I have only had to get FBI clearanace.
You might want to check up on that.
Go to your local police station and find out were the local FBI office is in your city. Youy might need to call them and take an appointment.
take the letter canadian councellate sent you for FBI clearance. they will look up the computer and see if there is any charges against you. then give you a police clearance letter. they will then take your finger prints . you will need to send these (do not fold the prints) to FBI headquaters with charges (I think they charge 17.50 per person.) they will varify your prints and send them back to you in a few weeks. I dont remember if it was 2 or 4 weeks.
a word of caution: they dont really like doing this so be extra polite on the phone whe you speak to them and dont forget to take the letter with you
Quote:Geez, man, where are you getting all this information from?
Orginally posted by Janmeja
Go to your local police station and find out were the local FBI office is in your city. Youy might need to call them and take an appointment.
What makes you think you need to go to the FBI office, or that you will even be allowed to go in there
Quote:Wow ! This sounds like one of those Brad Pitt spy movies !
take the letter canadian councellate sent you for FBI clearance. they will look up the computer and see if there is any charges against you.
Quote:This part, at least, is correct
they will varify your prints and send them back to you in a few weeks.
To the OP -
All you need to do for FBI clearance is call FBI and request the fingerprinting form (to make sure you get the latest version).
There is no charge for this, and they will mail it to you.
Take the form to the nearest police station and tell them you need fingerprints taken for FBI clearance and what the purpose is (Canadian PR immigration).
They may charge a small fee - varies from state to state and county to county (we had paid $10 at the police station).
Then mail the fingerprint cards to FBI and they will mail you back the reports.
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Oh really ! and how do you think they get your finger prints. there are specialists who have to take the finger prints for you. I guess you want to send yours via email?
we took an appointment from the office in st paul MN and took the letter we had from the canadian councellate requesting police clearance. An agent came out in the lobby and did the finger printing for us and handed us the forms which we mailed to the address they had supplied to us. with the fee. we then recd out stamped fingerprints back via mail.
thats how it happens. there maybe diff offices that do it in each city. just call your local station and ask where you can have it done. thats what i had done. they gave me the address. as simple as that. it tkk us total of 15 mins to finish the proceedure. but there is no way you can take your own prints and send it to them. and yes they do need somthing that proves as to why you need the prints.
Quote:If you read my message carefully, note that I said mail the fingerprints to FBI.
Orginally posted by Janmeja
I guess you want to send yours via email?
I also said that they send you the form in the mail.
Where did you read email?
Quote:Again, I did not say that you have to take your own prints.
but there is no way you can take your own prints and send it to them.
I said that we did ours at the local police station by paying $10.
Never did anyone ask us to approach the FBI directly.
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"Mah deah, there is much more money to be made in the destruction of civilization than in building it up."
-- Rhett Butler in "Gone with the Wind"
