Police Report from Mexico

[zygurn]

Since I don't like to keep things unconcluded and leave people wondering about the what happened, just to clear things up, I live in Honduras and haven't lived in Mexico since 2004. I'll add my experience here:

I went to Monterrey myself to obtain the State Police Certificate. I don't know if this is new or gonna last but initially I was denied this due to the fact I'm from Central America and not a legal mexican resident. I had to communicate with my college and have them type up a letter explaining I was a graduate from the school and specify the period I attended. So I took this letter with my passport (in order to show I didn't enter Mexico illegally) to the Police Office in Monterrey and after waiting for some 30 minutes for their approval (I suppose they called my old college or something) I was authorized to get the State PC from them and after 2 days, it was ready. I believe I also had to get the PC from Tamaulipas but I was unable to due to the same reason I stated previously (Not a legal mexican resident) and on this case, I had no support to prove my previous residency there so I had to walk out empty handed and wrote a letter to CIC explaining the reason(s) why I was unable to obtain this.

In regards to the Federal Police Certificate, I did get instructions from CIC to obtain this. They had me go to the local Mexican Consulate and request it there. Apparently, the Consulate does not help you obtain it, they only give you the necessary documents needed at PGR to obtain it (ie, fingertips, consulate letter, signatures validating the fingertips, etc) and after that, you're on your own. So I had the local Consulate take my fingertips and write up the letter (written by the consul) addressed to the Director of PGR (the consulate knows who to address it to), once they did this, I sent my fingertips with the letter and whatever PGR requests (pictures, letter from myself with my file number from the CIC office I applied to, etc) via UPS to the Canadian Embassy in Mexico (CIC Mexico) and they get it themselves and send it to the CIC office I applied to. After sending the documents from the Mexican Consulate to CIC Mexico, I heard nothing else about it. Never had to go to DF to get it or anything.

I got a call about a week ago from CIC office processing my case to send passport and RPRF as soon as possible which I assume means I got the PR and well I wanted to share my experience with this part of the process here for future reference of other people when they get to this part of the process.

 

[gigab]

Hello zygurn:

I'm happy to finally found someone from Honduras. About the police certificates from Mexico named antecedentes registrales, I found someone who did it for me in Mexico, of course she charged me, but everything turned out fine. It seems she's picking them up on Monday, as they say 10 working days.
In what stage are you?

gigab

 

[gigab]

Zygurn:

Could you please state your timelines and your visa office. Is it Guatemala? Please, I would like to know once I send my documents to Guatemala how long will it take for them to request medicals and passports.

I would appreciate it, since I've being in this forum for a long time and never found someone from my country.

Thanks

gigab

 

[zygurn]

Hi,

I responded to you via PM. I'm just wondering about the way you're doing antecedentes registrales. You didn't get instructions from Guatemala to obtain it? I specifically got a letter stating that I should contact the Mexican consulate about it and then send documents to CIC Mexico so they obtain it for me. I had no need to go myself to Mexico City or hire/ask someone to get it for me. I got request for police certificates and medicals at the same time. Medicals is just a questionaire which your doctor will fill out and he will ask you to do some exams which are your general bloodwork (type of blood, STDs, AIDS, cholesterol levels, etc) and a chest X-ray in case you want to know.

 

[Zico]

Hi,

I have a similar situation with most of you. My spouse lived in Mexico for some time and we are trying to get the police certificate. PGR has asked us to get a letter from the Canadian office handling our case. can anyone help us as the High Commission in Ghana does not pick calls and I have written them.

 

[zygurn]

Did you send an email to them? When I was asked for mine, as I explained, I had specific instructions where I was asked to go to the local Mexican Consulate and ask them for it. It turns out the Mexican consulate does not get the "carta de antecedentes registrales" for you, however, they write the letter asking PGR to give it to you, they take your fingerprints and you send the documents (the mexican consulate will tell you and give you what you need) to the Canadian Embassy in Mexico. That was my case but older posters say otherwise so it's best to write your CHC office an email.

 

[Zico]

yes, I wrote to the CIC office and I hope they will respond. A friend was trying to submit our documents to PGR. she had completed the form and bought the draft but was asked by PGR to get a letter from the CIC office. I dont know if this was the experience of other people.

 

[zygurn]

In my case, the Mexican consulate typed the letter asking the PGR director for that document, I typed up the letter requesting the Mexican consulate to help me obtaining the document. Try approaching your local Mexican consulate/embassy if you can't wait for CHC to respond. They may or may not help.

 

[yokototo]

Hi, I decided to join today and just found a thread that is interesting to me...
I applied for PR (with CSQ) to the CHC in London, they received my application on the 2nd of february 2010 and yesterday I received the Medical forms for me and my family as well as the request to pay the landing fee.

I am from Mexico, therefore I understand I need to send my Informe de datos registrales and the ounes from the states which I lived, however, at this stage, they haven't ask for them yet.

Do you think this is normal? should I wait until they ask me for thos or should I approach them by email to ask them when do I have to send them?

Any advice will be highly appreciated!

Yoko

 

[cchabert]

Hi, I decided to join today and just found a thread that is interesting to me...
I applied for PR (with CSQ) to the CHC in London, they received my application on the 2nd of february 2010 and yesterday I received the Medical forms for me and my family as well as the request to pay the landing fee.

I am from Mexico, therefore I understand I need to send my Informe de datos registrales and the ounes from the states which I lived, however, at this stage, they haven't ask for them yet.

Do you think this is normal? should I wait until they ask me for thos or should I approach them by email to ask them when do I have to send them?

Any advice will be highly appreciated!

Yoko

You should wait until they ask for it, usually the Police records have expiration date, also in my case they never ask for my Informe de Datos Registrales, it was luck? I don't know, but I always waited until they ask for something, sending documents that they have not request will not help to have your visa soon.

Hope this help

 

[gigab]

Hello everybody:
In my case I had to visit the Mexican consulate in my country, they gave me a form to fill out, they asked for pictures and took fingerprints and told me to come back the next day.
As they said, my documents were ready next day, it was a letter from them address to the PGR director asking them to submit the¨antecedentes penales¨, with my pictures and fingerprints. I sent my folder to someone in Mexico who took it to the PGR and I think it took like 10 business days. But what I really didn´t get is that is only valid for 15 days. But I had to send them with the rest of my documents.
Hope this helps.

Gigab

 

[Zico]

The situation with the Mexican embassy here is different. We had approached them but they could not help in any way. We will try and ask if they can do the letter for us but since PGR specifically asked for a letter from CIC, I dont know if they will accept the letter from the Mexican Consulate.

This is really frustrating as we have done everything except this.

 

[zygurn]

They probably meant CIC Mexico. After obtaining the documents from the Mexican consulate, I sent them to CIC Mexico (my processing CIC was a different one) and they retrieved it from PGR on my behalf. CIC Mexico then sent it to my processing CIC so I never saw it. Be sure to include your file number if you do it this way.

 

[Zico]

Currently am working on getting a letter from the Mexican consulate in my country. PGR reviewed my documentations before requesting the letter. I hope my contact will be able to pick the PCC since am not going through the CIC office in Mexico.

From what you are saying, this letter should come from the Mexican embassy. Am I right?

 

[zygurn]

Yes, I had a letter from the Mexican consulate. It is possible that once CIC Mexico obtained my documentation, they wrote a letter themselves, but I do not know this for sure.