Extensive Foreign travel will it create delay on Background Screening?

[Camelboy]

I have an extensive travel history in Africa and Asia for the last ten years, every year i travel 3-4 countries.
Therefore i need to fill these travellilng in the supplementary form which is an appendix attached to African country specific sheet
Will these kind of foreign travel create a delay on background and security checking after they receive the passport
Are they going to get in touch with the pollice/ intelligence of every country i visited. or will they get in touch with the intelligence of the country i am living in.

 

[waitingsince2004]

I have an extensive travel history in Africa and Asia for the last ten years, every year i travel 3-4 countries.
Therefore i need to fill these travellilng in the supplementary form which is an appendix attached to African country specific sheet
Will these kind of foreign travel create a delay on background and security checking after they receive the passport
Are they going to get in touch with the pollice/ intelligence of every country i visited. or will they get in touch with the intelligence of the country i am living in.

It happens some time. They check background with random check from different agencies. specially if you visit Nigeria, Cameroon etc .

 

[Camelboy]

Most of my travel is related to Duba, Jordan, Malaysia, China and East African countries, not the west of Africa.

It happens some time. They check background with random check from different agencies. specially if you visit Nigeria, Cameroon etc .

About Nigeria and Cameroon what issues are involved wit this countries? are they politically unstalble or ?

 

[RajaJi]

I have an extensive travel history in Africa and Asia for the last ten years, every year i travel 3-4 countries.
Therefore i need to fill these travellilng in the supplementary form which is an appendix attached to African country specific sheet
Will these kind of foreign travel create a delay on background and security checking after they receive the passport
Are they going to get in touch with the pollice/ intelligence of every country i visited. or will they get in touch with the intelligence of the country i am living in.

IMO, extensive travel should not be an issue as you are already getting through the screening at Airport and immigration checkpoints. CIC will do background check as a routine. As long as you have no record, it should not be a problem. You will need to provide PCC's from all countries where you have stayed for more than 6 months though.

 

[Sweden]

it also depends why you're traveling... if you have a "good reason" to be going to different places ( for work etc) then it should not be a problem, as long as you get the PCC for countries where you lived more than 6 months. I traveled a lot for work in the last ten years and could not remember everywhere I had been and when were the travels taking place, so I wrote an explanation to CIC and put as much info as possible and I was approved... it might delay a little because your file will be longer to read than somebody who has never traveled anywhere, but not that much.
Good luck,
Sweden

 

[Camelboy]

it also depends why you're traveling... if you have a "good reason" to be going to different places ( for work etc) then it should not be a problem, as long as you get the PCC for countries where you lived more than 6 months. I traveled a lot for work in the last ten years and could not remember everywhere I had been and when were the travels taking place, so I wrote an explanation to CIC and put as much info as possible and I was approved... it might delay a little because your file will be longer to read than somebody who has never traveled anywhere, but not that much.
Good luck,
Sweden

Thanks guys, well all my trips were less than 6 months , the maximum was 3 months. and most of my travel was due to business (trainings), medical and family visits.

Is there a possibility that they will get in touch with the authorities of these countries and confirm my history and background with these or this is just for their references.

 

[Sweden]

Thanks guys, well all my trips were less than 6 months , the maximum was 3 months. and most of my travel was due to business (trainings), medical and family visits.

Is there a possibility that they will get in touch with the authorities of these countries and confirm my history and background with these or this is just for their references.

it's difficult to know if they will contact the authorities, but I don't think so... it would take way too much time. I think if you have a "good reason" everytime you traveled, and you explain clearly where you were and what you did, there is no reason for CIC to get suspicious and contact the authorities... so try and be as thorough as possible and hopefully you won't get any delay.
Good luck,
Sweden

 

[canadianwoman]

Most of my travel is related to Duba, Jordan, Malaysia, China and East African countries, not the west of Africa.


About Nigeria and Cameroon what issues are involved wit this countries? are they politically unstalble or ?

Oh yeah.
If CIC thinks your pattern of travel looks 'suspicious' in some way, they will do a more extensive background check. If it seems that your travels were perfectly ordinary, it still may take a bit more time to do your background check, but probably not too much more than average.

 

[smartshady]

canadianwoman....any idea how much delay approx???

 

[user828]

Same stuff with my folks

5 passports ( dad ) + 3 Passports ( mom )

They wanted activities since 1970s

Dad has 46 trips
USA - 18
Canada - 11
Dubai - 7
UK - 3
European Countries, 1 each + IRAN ( 1978 )

Even though he hasn't lived in US for more than 3 weeks on each trip, they asked for his FBI clearance due to significant travel
So I suggest to prepare police clearance for any country you might suspect is considered significant travel
Their background checks are going since March
MP Inquiry said the same and this is how MP explains

Unfortunately, the background checks are not under the control of CIC and they must wait for the results too. For example, the police check is done by the various police departments where the applicant has recently lived and they take as long as the various police departments take to do the work and then send the result to CIC.

There are many checks that are initiated outside CIC depending on what the other checks show, so in some cases, the FBI gets involved and in others, Interpol may check on the person, so even CIC doesn’t always know what checks are being done.

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Hope this helps

 

[keesio]

Unfortunately, the background checks are not under the control of CIC and they must wait for the results too. For example, the police check is done by the various police departments where the applicant has recently lived and they take as long as the various police departments take to do the work and then send the result to CIC.

There are many checks that are initiated outside CIC depending on what the other checks show, so in some cases, the FBI gets involved and in others, Interpol may check on the person, so even CIC doesn't always know what checks are being done.

Does CIC request additional checks even if you provide police certificates for all countries with the application?

 

[scylla]

I think this issue is individual and is handled on a case by case basis. My husband has traveled very extensively (i.e. a few hundred trips since the age of 18 - mainly to countries in the Middle East, South East Asia and Africa). He also spent almost 20 years living in the Middle East and Africa. This didn't seem to affect the processing of his file at all. And on top of that, we were short one police certificate (Kuwait) that turned out to be impossible to get. The fact he's American might have helped??? (Just me guessing.) Or maybe our VO was lazy.

 

[user828]

I think this issue is individual and is handled on a case by case basis. My husband has traveled very extensively (i.e. a few hundred trips since the age of 18 - mainly to countries in the Middle East, South East Asia and Africa). He also spent almost 20 years living in the Middle East and Africa. This didn't seem to affect the processing of his file at all. And on top of that, we were short one police certificate (Kuwait) that turned out to be impossible to get. The fact he's American might have helped??? (Just me guessing.) Or maybe our VO was lazy.

The one in bolded for sure, me thinks

 

[user828]

Does CIC request additional checks even if you provide police certificates for all countries with the application?

They do their own on top of PCC