Question about police certificates

[Mjg0503]

Hello,
I'm working on an application for spousal sponsorship. I am a US citizen living in South Korea with my Canadian wife. The document checklist states I must submit the following police certificates:

- for the country where I currently live, if I have lived there for 6 months or more and;
- the country where you have lived most of your life since the age of 18

I understand this to mean I must provide a Korean certificate (I've been here 2 years) and a U.S. certificate. I have also lived in the Czech Republic for a period of about a year, however, and I've seen elsewhere on this forum that CIC requires a police certificate for ALL countries I've lived in for 6 months or more. Am I in the clear in this case, since it's not explicitly stated on the document checklist? Or will they just ask later and it will delay the processing of my app?

I should add, I have a copy and certified translation of a Czech background check that was done about a year ago. I don't have the original anymore. I get that it's old and it's a copy, but I haven't been back there since 2017 anyway. Would this be sufficient? Want to avoid an expensive and time consuming trip to the embassy.

Thanks for any info!

 

[thevisawhisperer]

Your Czech PCC is still valid and I would submit it, just in case they do come back and ask for it later. There is zero downside to submitting it.

 

[Mjg0503]

Your Czech PCC is still valid and I would submit it, just in case they do come back and ask for it later. There is zero downside to submitting it.

Thank you. I will certainly submit it. Just to clarify, it is still valid even though I no longer have the original document? I just have a copy and the certified translation.

 

[thevisawhisperer]

If you have time to get a new original then get a new original, if not . . .