Hi there,
I'm sponsoring my Slovak wife to come to Canada. We've travelled a lot, so the police clearance certificate has been a bit tricky. We applied for the permanent residency visa in late November, and received notice on March 1st. We are applying outside of Canada.
Today we received an email from Visa Office stating that we need to produce police certificates for Colobmia and Russia. For Colombia, this was expected, as you are suppose to wait for instructions after you applied. The Russia one came as a bit of surprise though, since my wife spent less than 6 months in the country. In her Background form, she did state her Russian address from the 7th month of 2011 to the 12th month of 2011. However, in other sections of the document we noted the exact dates (late July to late December) of entry and exit, which make it clear her time was closer to 5 months.
Here's the kicker though, at the end of the email, it states "If you do not produce the required evidence and documents within 30 days of the date of this letter, your application might be refused pursuant to subsection 11(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA).".
Even for the Colombia police check, which can't be done until we have a file number, 30 days in certainly not enough to get this done.
So the questions:
Does the "30 days" part just mean that they require some evidence that the process has started, or will they actually refuse the permanent residency application (I would think that they would at least just delay it)?
Should we argument request for russian police clearance or just try to get the police clearance?
To make things more complicated, we are both in New Zealand at the moment.
Thanks for your help.
I'm sponsoring my Slovak wife to come to Canada. We've travelled a lot, so the police clearance certificate has been a bit tricky. We applied for the permanent residency visa in late November, and received notice on March 1st. We are applying outside of Canada.
Today we received an email from Visa Office stating that we need to produce police certificates for Colobmia and Russia. For Colombia, this was expected, as you are suppose to wait for instructions after you applied. The Russia one came as a bit of surprise though, since my wife spent less than 6 months in the country. In her Background form, she did state her Russian address from the 7th month of 2011 to the 12th month of 2011. However, in other sections of the document we noted the exact dates (late July to late December) of entry and exit, which make it clear her time was closer to 5 months.
Here's the kicker though, at the end of the email, it states "If you do not produce the required evidence and documents within 30 days of the date of this letter, your application might be refused pursuant to subsection 11(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA).".
Even for the Colombia police check, which can't be done until we have a file number, 30 days in certainly not enough to get this done.
So the questions:
Does the "30 days" part just mean that they require some evidence that the process has started, or will they actually refuse the permanent residency application (I would think that they would at least just delay it)?
Should we argument request for russian police clearance or just try to get the police clearance?
To make things more complicated, we are both in New Zealand at the moment.
Thanks for your help.
. Even if she spent less than 6 months there, if CIC has made the request, then you must comply. CIC knows that quite a lot of countries don't provide police certificates in 30 days, so the evidence that you have applied for them (receipts, confirmation emails, etc) along with a little letter stating the estimated processing times is enough. Then you can just send the certificates in as soon as they arrive (if they don't go direct to CIC)
