does Inland spouse sponsorship need police certificate in canada

[hshi]

hi there, one question. My wife was a student in Canada for 7 years. Now , we decided to go through the inland spouse sponsorship application. Does she need the Canadian non-criminal record when we submit her application?

thanks

Hui

 

[marsiangal]

She will need a police certificate from all the countries she has lived in after she was 18.
CIC will perform all security background checks in Canada so you don't have to submit one.

 

[hshi]

ok, seems I got the answer from CIC. It seems we do not need Canada police clearance

thanks



Police certificates

You and your family members, who are 18 years of age and older and are not permanent residents or Canadian citizens, must provide a:

valid police certificate, or
police clearance, or
record of no information.

Provide these documents for each country other than Canada in which you and your family members have lived for more than six (6) months consecutively during the past ten (10) years. If you or your family members were under 18 years of age when you lived there, you do not need to provide a police certificate.

The certificate must have been issued no more than three months prior to submitting your application. If the original certificate is not in English or French, then you will need to submit both the certificate and the original copy of the translation prepared by an accredited translator.

We will also do our own background checks to determine if there are grounds under which you and your dependants may be inadmissible to Canada.

Please consult our website for specific and up-to-date information on how to obtain police certificates from any country.

 

[hshi]

Thanks marsiangal!

She will need a police certificate from all the countries she has lived in after she was 18.
CIC will perform all security background checks in Canada so you don't have to submit one.