darklordkuma said:
Hi cincikid - I probably should've phrased my question better. Let me clarify:
The following is the request from CIC:
A) Police Certificate: From each country/state where the residence period has been six months or longer since the age of 18, provide an original police clearance certificate from INDIA for you and your spouse. This must be received at this office by: 2015/03/07
B> Police Certificate: From each country/state where the residence period has been six months or longer since the age of 18, provide an original police clearance certificate from UNITED ARAB EMITRTES for your spouse. This must be received at this office by: 2015/03/07
If you read point A) it's asking for from "each country" provide an original PCC from INDIA for you and your spouse. The language seems inconsistent. During the initial submission, I sent my India PCC and my wife's India PCC was not sent.
point B) again states the same as point A) initially but goes on to ask for PCC from United Arab Emirates for my spouse.
I'm confused because both points begin with..... from "each country" provide an original PCC..... and then goes on to clearly state the name of the country from which they need the PCC.
It sounds like a generic template that they use and then they add the country of interest. I agree, it's not worded flawlessly and is indeed confusing. I had a few similar wording issues in my communications as well, so rest assured this is not unique to you. My hunch is as follows:
1. If you (or your wife) haven't been to UAE, do send them an email explaining their mistake
2. You may want to clarify whether you indeed will need to send the certificate from India for yourself, but for the sake of time, I'd just send PCCs for you and your wife in the same package. Given you're in India, this doesn't look like a hassle, does it?
3. You've never clarified whether you sent PCCs from USA (or I might have missed it) but you'll need to get an FBI clearance. You are right though in that it takes 14-16 weeks at this point. If you are in India, you should probably add a few more weeks for delivery (FBI doesn't do prepaid envelopes and sends everything USPS First Class). You should ask for the extension from CIC. I highly recommend sending one package with 4-5 cards for each of you (you can print the cards from FBI website or elsewhere; be sure to use a denser paper) and then send another package in a week or so. We ended up sending three packages (May, June and July) out of which we had one rejected and two accepted, so success rate varies a lot.