emadielts said:
hi Paris,
So it is security checks after the medical request. For people whom lived in another country more than 6 months ,will CIC asks the intellignce authorities for these countries or the canadian intellignce will ask its counter intellignces to do that. Take example ,
Philipense citizen applied for permenant residence did his /her medical request, that person lived in UK one year before. So Canadain office in philipense is going to ask Canadian intelligence to check this person security ! then How the canadian office in philipinse will check the time the person spent in UK , will the office ask uk intellignce directly ? or the will the Canadian intellignce asks uk intelligence to do that security check ? or what !! just interesting
Have a good day
well, to tell you the truth, security checks are done by CSIS, without any involvement from the visa office or the visa officer.
CSIS is Canada's national spy and intelligence agency and no one knows what they really do since it is security and intelligence related.
The activities described above, including criminal check verification are usually done in the background verification stages and by the visa offices located in the countries where the applicant has resided for more than 6 months since turning 18. Once an applicant receives medical request, the background verification stage is usually over.
Security checks usually involve secret investigations, name checking against prominent databases and related research and consultations to verify whether or not the applicant was/is/will be involved in any kind of subversive, terrorist or spying activities.
More than 99 percent of applicants pass this stage.
No one knows for sure how does the CSIS do their security screening investigations. They do not reveal to anyone, including the visa officer. The visa officer ONLY gets the results of their security advice, only in YES and NO. They do NOT provide any explanation or reasons behind their answer i.e. they will not say why YES or why NO. The visa officer does not know anything about CSIS operations and the time it takes to complete a security screening.
We should not worry about this stuff. Just be patient and wait for the good news.