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confu

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Jun 1, 2009
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hi

i have applied for canadian immigration and before this i visited usa (new york) for 6 times. now cic has asked me to provide fbi and ny state police clearance certificate.

my question is that everytime i visited usa my stay was less than 6 months (although my total stay length during all these visits were more than 6 months).so based on this ,do i need to get these both certifcates or should i write to canadian high commission for extemption of these certificates. please reply as soon as possible.

thanks
 

AlbertaCitizen

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Apr 11, 2009
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confu said:
hi

i have applied for canadian immigration and before this i visited usa (new york) for 6 times. now cic has asked me to provide fbi and ny state police clearance certificate.

my question is that everytime i visited usa my stay was less than 6 months (although my total stay length during all these visits were more than 6 months).so based on this ,do i need to get these both certifcates or should i write to canadian high commission for extemption of these certificates. please reply as soon as possible.

thanks
If I would be in your situation, I will send an email to CIC with same question. But I think they will say "Yes We need certificates regardless for time of stay". So just spend 40-50 dollars and fix the issue. If you are in country other than USA then just contact nearest US Embassy and they help you for getting FBI clearance in your country.
 

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AlbertaCitizen said:
confu said:
hi

i have applied for canadian immigration and before this i visited usa (new york) for 6 times. now cic has asked me to provide fbi and ny state police clearance certificate.

my question is that everytime i visited usa my stay was less than 6 months (although my total stay length during all these visits were more than 6 months).so based on this ,do i need to get these both certifcates or should i write to canadian high commission for extemption of these certificates. please reply as soon as possible.

thanks
If I would be in your situation, I will send an email to CIC with same question. But I think they will say "Yes We need certificates regardless for time of stay". So just spend 40-50 dollars and fix the issue. If you are in country other than USA then just contact nearest US Embassy and they help you for getting FBI clearance in your country.
 

divagirl

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Jan 8, 2009
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confu said:
hi

i have applied for canadian immigration and before this i visited usa (new york) for 6 times. now cic has asked me to provide fbi and ny state police clearance certificate.

my question is that everytime i visited usa my stay was less than 6 months (although my total stay length during all these visits were more than 6 months).so based on this ,do i need to get these both certifcates or should i write to canadian high commission for extemption of these certificates. please reply as soon as possible.

thanks
I had raised this issue in one of the earlier PCC threads. From the advices I got, it was better to get the PCC and not waste time just because you dont have 1 PCC. So I will be applying for the PCC when time comes.