Hi I am a UK citizen, former military and currently studying in my final year of BEng in aircraft engineering at university. A couple of years ago I made a mistake and ended up in court, the outcome of this case was me being fined £100 and me having a criminal record. Would something that was dealt with by the way of a fine stop me getting a work visa or possible permanent status? Canada is where I want to go to after I finish my studies.
Advice needed regarding criminal record.
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Hi
1. Yes it could. It depends on what the conviction was for, and it's equivalent to the Criminal code of Canada.
2. If it equates to a summary offence, then no problem. If it equates to an indictable or hybrid offence, then you would be criminally inadmissible as a visitor or Immigrant until 5 years have passed when you could apply for rehabilitation or 10 years when you could be deemed rehabilitated.
stupat78 said:
1. Yes it could. It depends on what the conviction was for, and it's equivalent to the Criminal code of Canada.
2. If it equates to a summary offence, then no problem. If it equates to an indictable or hybrid offence, then you would be criminally inadmissible as a visitor or Immigrant until 5 years have passed when you could apply for rehabilitation or 10 years when you could be deemed rehabilitated.
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The actual determination is challenging to make because you must find the equivalent criminal activity under Canadian law and then determine if it is a summary offence or an indictable/hybrid offence and sometimes the translation is not entirely clear.
If you are inadmissible there is a mechanism by which you can be granted permission to enter Canada anyway, but you need to have compelling reasons and convince a visa officer that you are unlikely to reoffend. From what you have said, this is not likely to apply in your case, but then again what you've described sounds like it might be a summary offence.
Note also that if you are convicted of two (or more) summary offences they are treated like one indictable offence in terms of rehabiltiation.
If you are inadmissible there is a mechanism by which you can be granted permission to enter Canada anyway, but you need to have compelling reasons and convince a visa officer that you are unlikely to reoffend. From what you have said, this is not likely to apply in your case, but then again what you've described sounds like it might be a summary offence.
Note also that if you are convicted of two (or more) summary offences they are treated like one indictable offence in terms of rehabiltiation.
computergeek
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- Jan 31, 2012
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- Category........
- Visa Office......
- CPP-O/LA
- Job Offer........
- Pre-Assessed..
- App. Filed.......
- 06-03-2012
- AOR Received.
- 21-06-2012
- File Transfer...
- 21-6-2012
- Med's Done....
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stupat78 said:
That's fortunate - a single summary offence is not an issue. Two more more or one indictable offence and then you have to go through rehabilitiation.