Hi Everyone,
I have applied for Canadian Immigration from Saudi Arabia and after receiving the ITA back in November 2016, I submitted all my documents a few weeks back. Now the next stage, which I am waiting for, is the letter from the IRCC requesting police certificates from Saudi Arabia for me and my spouse.
The Problem is that in Saudi Arabia, Police Certificates are issued using the information on the local Resident Cards, normally know as the "Muqeem Card" or previously known as the "Iqama".
The information on these cards are usually not consistent with the details on Passport especially due to the fact that information is translated from Arabic to English and they usually do spelling mistakes in the English names and also because Saudi Arabia uses a convention of {First Name + Father’s Full Name}. In Passport's this is not the case and therefore names as per these Cards differ from the Passports leading to different names on the Police Certificates.
Further, me and my spouse date of births have also been changed on these cards by the authorities here and now my actual date of birth which is as per my Passport and Birth Certificate does not match with the information on the Resident Card.
I have tried a lot going back and forth with the authorities but they just gave me a cold answer that they will not be changing it. It is really frustrating and is the norm with the Saudi authorities.
I wanted to know if anyone else who applied from Saudi Arabia faced this issue and if so what was the response from the IRCC and what documents were shared to convince the IRCC that the information as per Passport is the correct one and that the Police Certificate shared actually belongs to the person.
Even after reaching this stage I do not want my application to be rejected because of stupid mistake on the part of the local authorities who also refuse to cooperate to correct their mistakes.
Looking forward to some suggestions on this.
I have applied for Canadian Immigration from Saudi Arabia and after receiving the ITA back in November 2016, I submitted all my documents a few weeks back. Now the next stage, which I am waiting for, is the letter from the IRCC requesting police certificates from Saudi Arabia for me and my spouse.
The Problem is that in Saudi Arabia, Police Certificates are issued using the information on the local Resident Cards, normally know as the "Muqeem Card" or previously known as the "Iqama".
The information on these cards are usually not consistent with the details on Passport especially due to the fact that information is translated from Arabic to English and they usually do spelling mistakes in the English names and also because Saudi Arabia uses a convention of {First Name + Father’s Full Name}. In Passport's this is not the case and therefore names as per these Cards differ from the Passports leading to different names on the Police Certificates.
Further, me and my spouse date of births have also been changed on these cards by the authorities here and now my actual date of birth which is as per my Passport and Birth Certificate does not match with the information on the Resident Card.
I have tried a lot going back and forth with the authorities but they just gave me a cold answer that they will not be changing it. It is really frustrating and is the norm with the Saudi authorities.
I wanted to know if anyone else who applied from Saudi Arabia faced this issue and if so what was the response from the IRCC and what documents were shared to convince the IRCC that the information as per Passport is the correct one and that the Police Certificate shared actually belongs to the person.
Even after reaching this stage I do not want my application to be rejected because of stupid mistake on the part of the local authorities who also refuse to cooperate to correct their mistakes.
Looking forward to some suggestions on this.
