Hi All,
I am wondering about the socalled security checks / criminal checks.
Not because I have any problem, but only wondering about.
Is hard for me to understand how do they do these checks. And why this could delay an application of someone that is CLEAN
As they ask in the application to suppy a document of your local police (stating that you have not commited any offence) .Then if it is not in english, you have this document get offcially translated by an approved translator, and have to go to the (applicants) Foreign Minister to stamp it. THis is then the document that you supply in the application.
So imagine that you have that police document where states that you have not commited any offence.
My question would be.... what can they check ? They should either believe that document or not; they should believe the stamps from your police and Foreign Minister or not. They may maximum check with the Foreign Minister if they have stamped that document.. I think that is the maximum what the VIsa Office (Canadian Foreign Administration, either in Ottawa or in the different Embassies)
But I don´t believe that they could check it with your local police.
Why not ?, because of the so-called Privacy Acts that rule in many countries.
Theoretically, at least in my country, if there is no sufficiently and justified judge-court-lawsuit, the police cannot disclose the information about any individual, even if it is asked by the embassy of another country.
Only that kind of thing, trespassing the ruling laws , can be done by secret services.
So, as said, for applicants whose criminal records are CLEAN and stamped, it is hard for me to believe that there is any real check to produces a delay in the process.
Have a good day
I am wondering about the socalled security checks / criminal checks.
Not because I have any problem, but only wondering about.
Is hard for me to understand how do they do these checks. And why this could delay an application of someone that is CLEAN
As they ask in the application to suppy a document of your local police (stating that you have not commited any offence) .Then if it is not in english, you have this document get offcially translated by an approved translator, and have to go to the (applicants) Foreign Minister to stamp it. THis is then the document that you supply in the application.
So imagine that you have that police document where states that you have not commited any offence.
My question would be.... what can they check ? They should either believe that document or not; they should believe the stamps from your police and Foreign Minister or not. They may maximum check with the Foreign Minister if they have stamped that document.. I think that is the maximum what the VIsa Office (Canadian Foreign Administration, either in Ottawa or in the different Embassies)
But I don´t believe that they could check it with your local police.
Why not ?, because of the so-called Privacy Acts that rule in many countries.
Theoretically, at least in my country, if there is no sufficiently and justified judge-court-lawsuit, the police cannot disclose the information about any individual, even if it is asked by the embassy of another country.
Only that kind of thing, trespassing the ruling laws , can be done by secret services.
So, as said, for applicants whose criminal records are CLEAN and stamped, it is hard for me to believe that there is any real check to produces a delay in the process.
Have a good day
