Birth Certificate

[RuthyB]

First of all, I want to thank you all for your help. The amount of kindness and the amount of help I have recieved has been quite overwhelming.

Anyways, I have a PR portal now, and I see they require a birth certificate to be uploaded. Do they mean the original or a copy? I do have my original, that's not an issue. But I know some places refuse originals. And I am aware I'd be scanning it in and then uploading it, but I don't wish to waste their time.

And instead of making a new thread, I'm gonna ask my two new questions here:

What is Proof of Status?

How do I get Police certificates and clearances?

 

[MJSPARV]

On the IRCC website it should tell you how to get police clearance certificates. https://www.canada.ca/en/immigratio...n/medical-police/police-certificates/how.html

I’m not sure I understand your concern with the birth certificate. Use your original one scanned in. If it doesn’t say anything about rejecting an original (which seems backwards to me - usually an original is preferable to a copy unless it’s a certified copy) then assume your original one scanned in is what they want.

Proof of status is in what context? Of marriage? Of a citizenship in another country?

 

[RuthyB]

On the IRCC website it should tell you how to get police clearance certificates. https://www.canada.ca/en/immigratio...n/medical-police/police-certificates/how.html

I’m not sure I understand your concern with the birth certificate. Use your original one scanned in. If it doesn’t say anything about rejecting an original (which seems backwards to me - usually an original is preferable to a copy unless it’s a certified copy) then assume your original one scanned in is what they want.

Proof of status is in what context? Of marriage? Of a citizenship in another country?

In America, we're told on certain things to never use the original of a birth certificate, which I always found so strange. But thank you!

In the PR portal, they're asking me to upload proof of status. I think they mean marriage, but I want to make sure I get it right

 

[LunaaStarr]

So for mine (US CITIZEN) I scanned my original birth certificate.

Proof of Status is your current document that allows you to be in Canada, example, your Visitor Record, Work Permit, Study Permit. It's to ensure you're currently in status while applying (inland I'm assuming?)

Your police record is the FBI record you need to order and you'll need to send your fingerprints via mail. You can get them taken at a police station and it costs like $30CAD (if you're inland). There's instruction on the link MJSPARV posted.

 

[RuthyB]

So for mine (US CITIZEN) I scanned my original birth certificate.

Proof of Status is your current document that allows you to be in Canada, example, your Visitor Record, Work Permit, Study Permit. It's to ensure you're currently in status while applying (inland I'm assuming?)

Your police record is the FBI record you need to order and you'll need to send your fingerprints via mail. You can get them taken at a police station and it costs like $30CAD (if you're inland). There's instruction on the link MJSPARV posted.

Birth certificate, got it! Thank you!
Police stuff, got it! Thank you!

I'm outland but I am currently staying with my husband. As I still have ties to America. So I don't have any documents saying I'm allowed to be aside from my passport, and plane tickets

 

[armoured]

In America, we're told on certain things to never use the original of a birth certificate, which I always found so strange. But thank you!

In the PR portal, they're asking me to upload proof of status. I think they mean marriage, but I want to make sure I get it right

If you mean by original the document you were actually issued shortly after birth, that advice is basically not about photocopying or scanning a copy (as here), but not giving or sending it away. (Risk of damage or loss)

BUT: most states now issue "duplicates" or extracts from the civil register (on fancy paper) - and they are considered legally to be originals. (They're original extracts from the civil register ) if this is what you have, that's fine too.

IRCC will accept a copy of either and I'd argue the latter is actually preferable and easier for them to read (format is standard and no issues with faded or illegible documents) - but up to you.

(I believe this is now the practice for all provinces here as well, and very similar for many states - some complications possible for older certificates in some jurisdictions that established civil registers more recently)

 

[Zarqum]

Proof of Status is a document that shows you're legally in the country you're currently living in. It could be a visa, work or study permit, residency card, or even a passport stamp — basically anything official that proves you have the right to be there.

 

[armoured]

I'm outland but I am currently staying with my husband. As I still have ties to America. So I don't have any documents saying I'm allowed to be aside from my passport, and plane tickets

If you mean you are physically in Canada, your 'proof of status' would be passport stamp you got on arrival, or eg other evidence of your day of arrival (if no stamp). Your status is valid (basically) if you arrived here less than six months ago (standard leave to stay is six months).