Hi,
I received an ITA and they are asking for my spouse's mexican PCC.
In the CIC website they say:
If you’re a citizen of Mexico
If you live in Mexico:
You must apply to the Mexican authorities, Fiscalía General de la República (FGR). The office processing your application will send you a letter with instructions on how to get a police certificate. Once you’ve received the instructions letter, email the visa office in Mexico City to request an official letter. Take the official letter to the FGR office closest to you to apply for a police certificate.
The instructions letter provided by the processing office is not the same as the official letter that you must submit to the FGR authorities.
So basically, it takes 3 steps:
1. I need to apply to FGR and ask for a letter with instructions on how to get a police certificate.
2. With this letter, email the Visa office (is it the same as the Canadian embassy?) in Mexico to request an official letter.
3. With this official letter, apply at the FGR for my PCC.
I get steps 2 and 3 but I am lost at the first step. Where do I apply to FGR to request a letter on how to get a police certificate?
I found this website
https://www.gob.mx/fgr/acciones-y-programas/constancia-de-datos-registrales
And they say I need (among many other documents), a letter from the embassy (I imagine it's the canadian embassy in Mexico) requesting the PCC to start doing their part. But at the same time, the canadian visa office in mexico asks for a letter from them to start doing their part? This is so confusing, where should I start from:
Should I ask the FGR for a letter to ask the visa office for an official requesting letter so I can get my PCC
Or
Should I jump step 1 (because the website above explains how to get my PCC anyway) and send an email to the visa office asking for the official requesting letter so I can give it to the FGR?
Before I receive my ITA, I tried to get this official request letter from the Visa office (without having any letter from the FGR with instructions on how to get a PCC/ignoring step 1) and the answer was:
" Dear Sir/Madame,
Please be advised that we require the applicant's full name, date of birth and the file number in order to access records and properly respond to your enquiry".
So apparently the first step is unnecessary as the FGR website I linked above already says what I should do to get my PCC, and I dont need a letter with instructions for that.
Is the first step actually asking the visa office for an official request letter with the information they asked in their reply? If so, are they asking for my full name and date of birth or my wife's? And what is the file number? Is it the profile number of my ITA?
Anyway, I sent a new email with mine and my wife's full name, date of birth, and the profile number of my application and didnt get a response back.
Can anyone enlight me about the actual first step for Mexicans living in Mexico, please? I've looked all around this forum and I only see cases of people applying from outside mexico and it's a different process.
Thanks in advance!
I received an ITA and they are asking for my spouse's mexican PCC.
In the CIC website they say:
If you’re a citizen of Mexico
If you live in Mexico:
You must apply to the Mexican authorities, Fiscalía General de la República (FGR). The office processing your application will send you a letter with instructions on how to get a police certificate. Once you’ve received the instructions letter, email the visa office in Mexico City to request an official letter. Take the official letter to the FGR office closest to you to apply for a police certificate.
The instructions letter provided by the processing office is not the same as the official letter that you must submit to the FGR authorities.
So basically, it takes 3 steps:
1. I need to apply to FGR and ask for a letter with instructions on how to get a police certificate.
2. With this letter, email the Visa office (is it the same as the Canadian embassy?) in Mexico to request an official letter.
3. With this official letter, apply at the FGR for my PCC.
I get steps 2 and 3 but I am lost at the first step. Where do I apply to FGR to request a letter on how to get a police certificate?
I found this website
https://www.gob.mx/fgr/acciones-y-programas/constancia-de-datos-registrales
And they say I need (among many other documents), a letter from the embassy (I imagine it's the canadian embassy in Mexico) requesting the PCC to start doing their part. But at the same time, the canadian visa office in mexico asks for a letter from them to start doing their part? This is so confusing, where should I start from:
Should I ask the FGR for a letter to ask the visa office for an official requesting letter so I can get my PCC
Or
Should I jump step 1 (because the website above explains how to get my PCC anyway) and send an email to the visa office asking for the official requesting letter so I can give it to the FGR?
Before I receive my ITA, I tried to get this official request letter from the Visa office (without having any letter from the FGR with instructions on how to get a PCC/ignoring step 1) and the answer was:
" Dear Sir/Madame,
Please be advised that we require the applicant's full name, date of birth and the file number in order to access records and properly respond to your enquiry".
So apparently the first step is unnecessary as the FGR website I linked above already says what I should do to get my PCC, and I dont need a letter with instructions for that.
Is the first step actually asking the visa office for an official request letter with the information they asked in their reply? If so, are they asking for my full name and date of birth or my wife's? And what is the file number? Is it the profile number of my ITA?
Anyway, I sent a new email with mine and my wife's full name, date of birth, and the profile number of my application and didnt get a response back.
Can anyone enlight me about the actual first step for Mexicans living in Mexico, please? I've looked all around this forum and I only see cases of people applying from outside mexico and it's a different process.
Thanks in advance!
