Hello good people,
Background:
I have been slogging through this process for over a year now. I got an exclusion order last May, and my application for PR was recieved by Buffalo (I am a US citizen) in September 2011. My exclusion order is over on the last day of May, this year. The reason for the exclusion order was that I was living part-time in Canada, with my partner and our 4 year old son (both Canadian), before I applied for PR. I was refused entry on the way North from the States, with my son. There was no criminality or overstay, just suspicion that I would overstay/ stronger ties to Canada than the US. Everything was done, I thought, but then I got a letter fom CIC two weeks ago requesting police certificates from Mexico. They had requested these before, along with some other things, but I wrote to remind them that I have never lived in Mexico, only traveled there once for two months in the last ten years. In the last letter from CIC, two weeks ago, they requested the police certificates again, 'in light of my arrest' (I was arrested when I was 18 for a minor drug possesion, and not convicted). They did not explain the connection. So I submitted the documents in the way outlined on the CIC site to obtain the federal Informe, and they were recieved by the CIC in Mexico last week.
Questions:
1: How long should it take CIC Mexico/PGR to send the Informe de Datos Registrales to Buffalo?
2: Is it almost certain that I will be given another exclusion order if I try to reenter Canada after the end of the current one and before PR status has been granted?
Thanks a lot.