Hi Jen,
My email was very brief from the London office...
"Please be advised that, as up-to-date police certificates are required from all countries where an applicant has resided for 6 months or more, it will be necessary for you to obtain a Canadian police certificate (RCMP Certified Criminal Record Check), verified by a fingerprint check.
Please refer to www . rcmp-grc.gc.ca/cr-cj/fing-empr2-eng.htm for further information and full instructions."
I have an appointment with the Police Tomorrow to get my fingerprints taken. The Police have told me that they have the C216 form. Which is the specific form for Canada RCMP checks. Thanks to d-tilley, I have contacted the commissionaires company, and they have told me that once they have the completed C216 form (done by the UK police); they can digitize the prints and all being well they get back the RCMP check in two weeks rather than the 6 months if you sent off the paper based directly to the RCMP. They said it would cost 225 CDN$; but I figure that is worth it.
I have an email address of a woman who has told me about the digitizing of the finger prints and she also sent me some info. Send me a private msg with your email and I can forward them on if that would help.