Surbhigurpreet said:
Hi, is there any source of your said finding... i think both things r right. Your no 1 is right that they cross check with province but after this step there is no point of doing background check as the has already been done diligently by the provincial nomination officer... because even ppl having pnp r getting ppr within 4-6 months...
Congratulation Ronnie... best of luck for future..
Well... posts throughout the forum I suppose. Unfortunately IRCC/CIC don't divulge exactly what goes one with the BC checking process, so it's all based around what various people have picked up reading GCMS notes I guess.
There is some official documentation of the checks such as the A11.2 - http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/tools/perm/express/refuse.asp - here you can see that there is an extra step for PNP applicants.
As far as background checking goes, the provinces/territory (PT) don't perform any security ou criminal checks, so all applicants are treated the same in this respect. I guess that only stage where IRCC could skip the check is that employment and experience verification, but nowhere do they mention that PNP will receive lighter checks in this respect or will be exempt as the PT has already done that. In fact when you see GCMS notes from FSW and PNP you'll see similar comments for these checks suggesting that they are done to the same extent.
On one hand it makes sense for IRCC to simply accept what the PT has done before hand, on the other they are responsible for checking everything that the candidate is claiming points on regardless of what checks the PT has done before.
From this my only conclusion is that PNP candidates go though the SAME checks as the other candidates with the extra PT eligibility check. I would love to see some evidence that contradicts this, as I'm a PNP candidate and would like to think I'll have an easier time that the rest, but at the moment I'm thinking that's not the case.
. I've noticed that FSW are getting their visas faster than PNP applicants ( just my opinion)
