CIC NOW accepting CHannelers for FBI clearance

[Ponga]

Can my FBI Criminal Report results be sent to another individual?

You may have your FBI Criminal Report mailed to a designated attorney, if identified in your FBI Criminal Report Request. For reports to be utilized by an attorney, please see specific instructions below.

- from MyFBIReport .com FAQs

I have an immigration lawyer but of course she's also in Canada.

That's odd, because the FBI form (I-783) has an Applicant Home Address section, followed by a Mail Results to Address section. It doesn't say anywhere on it that it cannot be sent to Canada.

 

[Ponga]

I thought that an apostille was needed from the channeler as well:

(From the FBI faq page):

14. Does the FBI provide apostilles*?

(*An apostille is a certification that a document has been “legalized” or “authenticated” by the issuing agency through a process in which various seals are placed on the document.)

The CJIS Division will authenticate all U.S. Department of Justice Order 556-73 fingerprint search results by placing the FBI seal and the signature of a division official on the results at the time of submission.

Note: The FBI seal is no longer a raised seal. Documents authenticated by the FBI may then be sent to the U.S. Department of State by the requestor to obtain an apostille if necessary. Requests to authenticate previously processed results will not be accepted.


But...this is not available for an individual, so perhaps CIC is accepting the `regular' version of the report from the channelers?

 

[rhinogirl88]

That's odd, because the FBI form (I-783) has an Applicant Home Address section, followed by a Mail Results to Address section. It doesn't say anywhere on it that it cannot be sent to Canada.

If you directly request from the FBI, they will send it overseas, however it appears that channelers are not legally able to do that for some reason.

And about the apostille, it doesn't say it's required on the CIC website, for reports from the FBI or channelers.

 

[Ponga]

If you directly request from the FBI, they will send it overseas, however it appears that channelers are not legally able to do that for some reason.

And about the apostille, it doesn't say it's required on the CIC website, for reports from the FBI or channelers.

Oh, I realize that but since the FBI is no longer issuing the report on their blue security paper, I thought that CIC would want some additional layer of authentication. Good to know that my hunch was wrong.

 

[rhinogirl88]

Oh, I realize that but since the FBI is no longer issuing the report on their blue security paper, I thought that CIC would want some additional layer of authentication. Good to know that my hunch was wrong.

I'm actually surprised CIC doesn't request it, they generally seem to enjoy making things more difficult for applicants

 

[Ponga]

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/security/police-cert/north-america/united-states.asp

Updated on 9-March-2015 and NOW says:

Citizenship and Immigration Canada does not accept FBI police certificates issued by FBI-approved third party private companies. Only police certificates issued directly by the FBI will be accepted.


What happened? Why did they pull the plug on this?!

 

[keesio]

woah! what happened here??

 

[rasber]

Does anyone know the difference between the Police Clearance reports issued by FBI vs FBI-Approved Channeler. I found the sample online at https policeclearanceinfo.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/sample-fbi-police-clearance-2013.png
I am just wondering if these are indeed same? Any Idea??

 

[Canadafun]

Was this changed back recently?

I was wondering about using a Channeler while waiting for the full one, so that I can send if they re-request it