Courtesy of Torontolove
Hello CANzanillo,
I hope everything is fine with you and your wife. Sorry for the delay in writing to you I just have been a little busy this days.
So i got all the requirements from this website ........ and I will explain how and what I send to them.
1. The fingerprints.
Two sets of original fingerprints that meet these standards:
. rolled and flat impressions of all ten fingers taken with black ink
. full name, date of birth and sex of the applicant
. the name and address of the police agency
. the signature of the officer taking the fingerprints
To have your fingerprints taken
If you are in:
. Canada: Please contact a fingerprinting agency, or go to the closest local police station.
I found this agency ............ I asked in a police station and they told me that because I am not a Canadian or a PR resident they are not able to take fingerprints for me that I have to go through an agency. This agency has different locations within Canada.
I got mines done through this other one .......... because they were cheaper but this one is just in Toronto and the GTA.
. All other countries: Please go to the closest local police station. (In some countries the Mexican Embassy or Consulate will be able to assist you)
2. Letter from the Canadian embassy, I got it in my email so I just printed that one.
3. Official ID, I sent a photocopy of my passport and of my credencial de elector just in case.
4. Proof of address, I included a photocopy of my electricity bill (CFE) from my parents address that is where I lived last before coming to Canada and basically because I am here as a tourist that is still considered my home. This could be a photocopy.
5. CARTILLA, PRECARTILLA DEL SERVICIO MILITAR NACIONAL, I didn't have to send this because I am a woman because it is also a requirement to keep in mind if you are a man.
6. Birth certificate
7. Photos. In the Mexican website for the requirements for the constancia de datos regustrales it asks you for just one photograph of the front, and one of the right profile: passport size (With no makeup, earrings, glasses, beard, moustache, sideburns-no exceptions) but if you send documents to the embassy to request the police background in your behalf they ask you for three photograph of the front and three of the right profile so I didn't want to risk it to I sent 3 of each and they took them all.
8. Carta poder. It doesn't give me the option to attach that to this email so if you want I can send it to your email. I sent two cartas poder because one to request the police background and the other one to pick up the document after is ready. You also need the copy of an ID of the person who is doing it in your behalf and photocopy of two witnesses, I don't know if this last 2 ID are necessary but that is what it says in the carta poder and this carta poder I found it in a link that I found from the Mexican government regarding to the police background request.
9. You also need your CURP and RFC con homoclave in order to pay the fees for the police background in the bank (Around 150 pesos). I got them from this websites ......... and ..........
So I put all of this together except for my birth certifiate, my proof of adress and the ID of the person who is doing it in my behalf and the IDs of the witnesses because my parents got that for me in Mexico and included them in the package. I paid 80 dollars and I sent them to DHL and they got them in 2 business days.
The police background was requested and normally it takes 10 business days that is what they tell you when you request it but I got it in 3 business days so after that I sent it to translation and I got it back from one day to another and after that my parents send it to the Canadian embassy in Mexico through DHL.
Also you have to remember to include your file application number, your name and your day of birth when you send the documents ready to the embassy.
The whole process took me around 2 and a half weeks to get it done, my only concern is that the embassy accept it this way because I am sure they know that I am in Canada now even though I am here as a visitor I hope they don't ask me to do it the other way because I am outside of Mexico now.
When my dad was requesting the police background in the Monterrey office there were another parents from a girl who is in Canada doing the same application as me and they said to my dad that this was their 3rd time going to request the documents because the photos that her daughter was sending they weren't within the specifications that they ask for so I will recommend to check enough times that everything that you are sending is within the specifications.
If you have any questions or something is not clear please let me know. "
Hope that helps
speedy processing!
