If you are submitting outside of Canada application, your ARC gets processed automatically. You just need to submit the fee. Its always good to get a full criminal check requested in canada and have it mailed to either your lawyer, or spouse in order for them to attach it to your application.
I did so anyway. Still in process of collecting paperwork. Dont know waht kind of orders you guys had, had exclusion order, 1 year, 2 months gone already. Application not submitted yet, but my visa office (ankara) processes it within 16 months so I have good chance that my exclusion will expire before Ankara even processes my application