Police Checks and Fingerprints (?!?!?!)

[taliatoo]

Hey, my husband is Israeli and I'm Canadian (by birth). We are applying for permanent residency thru the Family Class Sponsorship from outside of Canada (we are in Israel).

Just a couple of questions:
My husband is a dual citizen.. Israel and the USA. We have a police check from Israel, but do we need one from America? We aren't including his American citizenship in the application, and he's never lived in America.

Also, I keep reading on this forum about people sending fingerprints, but I haven't read it anywhere on the cic.gc.ca website! Do we need to have his fingerprints taken as well???

This is so bloody confusing.
Thanks in advance.

 

[rhcohen2014]

you don't send fingerprints with the PR application. you send your fingerprints in order to receive your police certificate. if your husband has not lived in the us more than 6 mo. since turning 18, then he does NOT need an FBI record. the checklist/guide is pretty clear about that.

 

[tink23]

Hey, my husband is Israeli and I'm Canadian (by birth). We are applying for permanent residency thru the Family Class Sponsorship from outside of Canada (we are in Israel).

Just a couple of questions:
My husband is a dual citizen.. Israel and the USA. We have a police check from Israel, but do we need one from America? We aren't including his American citizenship in the application, and he's never lived in America.

Also, I keep reading on this forum about people sending fingerprints, but I haven't read it anywhere on the cic.gc.ca website! Do we need to have his fingerprints taken as well???

This is so bloody confusing.
Thanks in advance.

Usually you only send a police check for any country the applicant has been in for 6 months or more.

Each country has their own requirements for fingerprints. So if your country doesn't have this, then you don't need it. Sometimes when someone goes to get their police check there is a discrepancy with another person with a criminal record with the same name or birthday, so in this case fingerprints might be requested, but if your country's guide doesn't specifically ask for it upfront or the police station doesn't say to get this, then it might not be necessary.

 

[taliatoo]

Thank you both so much. This process tends to be a bit overwhelming