OmarSarfraz said:
Regarding the police certificate should we get the police certificates before we get an ITA or we should only get it after we have received the ITA?
thanks!
It depends on the country you want to get the PCC from, some would give you at any time you want and the other would need a request from the Canadian embassy there, for the latter you have to wait till CIC sends you the request letter.
But one main condition that CIC states on their website is that a PCC must be issued after the last time you had been in a certain country for 6 months or more.
In my case I got two PCCs, one from my home country Lebanon and was obtained before I got the ITA and while I was there on a short vacation (so it satisfies the aforementioned condition) and other from my country of residence Kuwait after CIC sent me the request letter which I used to get a letter from the Canadian embassy and later used that to obtain the PCC from the official authority in Kuwait.
My advice is to stick to the conditions CIC put and apply for the PCC on that basis,use this link to see how to obtain them http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/infORmation/security/police-cert/index.asp
Regards