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Fingerprint request for Citizenship

raygx

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Just wondering about the fingerprints request.

1) Does the RCMP send the results to CIC directly or send back to the applicant so as the applicant send it to the requested office?
2) After the fingerprints delivered to the requested office, do they update the ecas system?

Thanks
 

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When I did my finger print at RCMP downtown office, they said we don't send results directly to CIC so I got my finger print results from RCMP main office Ottawa in 9 days and I had to sent it to CIC ( Vancouver office ) myself. It's has been 10 days since my mail was delivered but nothing has changed yet in my ecas. I am still waiting for my test invitation.
 

The-Ottawan

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I did it through one of the private recommended offices.
They send the fingerprints electronically to RCMP then RCMP send it directly to CIC.

I called CIC 3 weeks after fingerprinting and they said that they received them that day. No update on ecas to reflect that.
 

heszak

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raygx said:
Just wondering about the fingerprints request.

1) Does the RCMP send the results to CIC directly or send back to the applicant so as the applicant send it to the requested office?
2) After the fingerprints delivered to the requested office, do they update the ecas system?

Thanks
May I know under what circumstances CIC asks for the FP request?
 

Adonis_G

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I got mine before the test. I went from AOR to In Process then a letter saying fingerprints were required.
 

Tah

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But mine was from the beginning in process and i sucussfully passed the test ast like a month ago
 

dpenabill

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Some observations:

FP requests may come at any stage of the process right up to the day the oath is taken.

Most reports, however, are for requests made early in the process, similar to the timing reported by Adonis_G, as in soon after AOR. This is of course related to the most common reasons for the FP request, which are related to verifying the identity of the applicant -- recognizing that concern about the applicant's identity can arise for different reasons, ranging from distinguishing clients with similar names and DoB to distinguishing the particular individual in RCMP name-record hits, to direct concern about identity arising otherwise, such as due to imprecise or difficult to verify information in the applicant's passport(s) or travel document(s), such as confusion arising from or related to name issues.

In the majority of cases, FP requests are nothing to worry about and do not cause lengthy delays. What triggers the request may be incidental and largely unrelated to the applicant (but for the coinciding aspect triggering the need to distinguish one person from others). The impact on processing time appears to be relatively minimal most of the time, up to a couple or few months for some.

That noted, anyone with law enforcement contact, and particularly anyone who has been charged with an offence, even if dismissed or otherwise not constituting a prohibition, and including persons who have been identified as suspects or persons-of-interest in law enforcement investigations, is much more likely to be issued a FP request. The FPs can be used not only to verify identity, but also in a broader RCMP or CSIS background check into databases which can connect FPs to persons with criminal history or even to persons suspected in particular crimes or persons believed to have association with criminal or terrorist organizations, formal or otherwise (such as known gangs, Canadian and foreign). Anyone at risk for this should already know this risk exists; a person not only knows whether they have been charged with a crime, but generally knows whether or not he or she has been associating with others involved in criminal activity.

Obviously, if the FP request is related to particularized concerns about prohibitions, or criminality or security issues, there is the prospect of more lengthy delays due to non-routine processing and potential referrals or investigations.

The later in processing the FP request is made, the higher the odds it derives from a concern more particular to the individual. Nonetheless, most FP requests even later in the process are still, probably, incidental, nothing to worry about, still about verifying the applicant is not someone else. And again, if there is something to worry about, the individual almost always knows there is something to worry about (and most protests to the contrary lack credibility)
 
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PRian

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When I did my finger print at RCMP downtown office, they said we don't send results directly to CIC so I got my finger print results from RCMP main office Ottawa in 9 days and I had to sent it to CIC ( Vancouver office ) myself. It's has been 10 days since my mail was delivered but nothing has changed yet in my ecas. I am still waiting for my test invitation.
Hi,

The same happened to me at Cambie's Vancouver Police Department (VPD) Office. They refused to include the file number or the CIC address on the fingerprint form, and said I have to send it myself to CIC.

Now, my question is:
When you received the fingerprints by mail from RCMP Ottawa, did you open the envelope?? or did you forward it sealed (unopened) to the CIC Vancouver Office?
 
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jebok79

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is there a specific form from CIC that they sent when they request for FP? or the RCMP already have that information once you go to the station and ask for fingerprinting check use for Citizenship???
the reason i ask this question is i am 90% sure that i will be getting a fingerprint request check same process when we apply for the PR way back home....

i am thinking of sending them the fingerprint result along with my complete app package to cic just to avoid some hassle....
 

iyad00

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When I did my finger print at RCMP downtown office, they said we don't send results directly to CIC so I got my finger print results from RCMP main office Ottawa in 9 days and I had to sent it to CIC ( Vancouver office ) myself. It's has been 10 days since my mail was delivered but nothing has changed yet in my ecas. I am still waiting for my test invitation.
 

iyad00

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Mar 26, 2015
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Could you please advise us what is the agency name if it's not applicable could you send me private message I'm exactly in your guy's shoes it except that I am outside Canada while my citizenship is pending
 

Atay

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Apr 24, 2018
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Hi, so i am looking for some info on this too. I received the request letter for FP, I went and had them taken at the RCMP and they said they send them electronically. But once I sign into my online account and go to 'view submitted application' it wants me to upload a document. No description as to what it wants uploaded, it only says 'figure prints
I never got a copy of my fingerprint results from the RCMP as they said they send them electronically. I only received a letter to say that I had my fingerprints taken.
So my question is, what is it wanting me to upload? The receipt to say I had my finger prints taken? Or do i need to somehow get a copy of my fingerprint
I am out of the country so can not even call immigration to find out