There is no direct relation of completion of IMEs to the need for a new PCC as directed/requested by the VO. Completion of IME only means you have complied to one of the requirements in the admissibility checks. It does not yet mean you have passed the medical admissibility check - that is done via a positive medical assessment of the IME results done by a Medical Officer.
There is no direct relation of the validity of the PCC to the need for a new PCC as directed/requested by the VO. Even if it is expired, it is an official document stating:
- no record of wrongdoing of the person named in the statement up to the time the PCC was issued.
If you have been in Dubai for x amount of years, the PCC is a statement there has been no record since the time you entered Dubai till when the PCC was issued. That is what the VO wants to see as part of the criminality checks - a clean record for places you have legally resided. This will be supplemented by their own security checks that will verify this information as available from countries where Canada has information sharing agreements with law enforcement agencies. If your PCC was issued last month, even if it is valid for 1 year, this PCC only shows information from the time you were in the country up to the time the PCC was issued. It does not mean you will/may not have a record for as long as the PCC is valid. So if there was some wrongdoing done after the PCC was issued - then it will be reflected in your record, but this is not in the already issued PCC. This is why additional security checks are done as part of admissibility, even if you have submitted a PCC, presumably to cover the gap from the issuance of the PCC up to the time of evaluation.
One scenario where the VO may ask for a new PCC is if there is considerable gap between the date issuance of the PCC and the criminality evaluation and if there are significant items identified in their own security checks that need re-verification via a new PCC. Ex. Your PCC was issued Jun 2013, but criminality evaluation was started Jan 2014, 6-months is a significant time period between which there is no criminality data for the applicant, lots of things may have changed since then. So a new PCC is expected to be requested.
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