I need some help please - I’m looking for specific guidance regarding our family’s GV application (post biometric stage, and awaiting first residency card, 2 years since biometrics).
All through in the process so far, the primary GV applicant, my husband, needed to get police clearance from the country of residence only (not from birth country/country of passport), whereas I as a dependent applicant of over 18 years needed 2 police clearances, one from country of residence and the other from country of birth/passport.
Now, we’ve got a request from AIMA for my husband to provide a police clearance from birth country/country of passport.
I’m trying to find actual experiences and whether people have encountered this, so as to help the lawyer challenge AIMA on this requirement, as there’s no precedence to it, and there’s ample proof we can provide for the country we’re residing in, which can be obtained much more easily as well, and makes sense since we’ve been living outside birth/passport country for almost 20 years (in case of my husband).
The actual message from our GV intermediary firm - “The immigration office asked for the document from XXX (birth/passport country) because, at the time of the application, they determined that his residency in (country of residence/work) had not yet been fully proven by the proofs previously presented (translating their comment here: “Taking into account that the applicant’s residence in XXX (country of residence and work) for the period from 03 July 2023 to 03 July 2024 has not been proven.”).”
Please share any inputs/guidance, it’ll be deeply appreciated.
Our GV applications hit the same snag back in August (for both Primary and Dependent), leading to a frantic quest for apostilled Canadian criminal records. Canada is currently taking about 60 calendar days just to apostille police records that PT only considers valid for 90 days
AIMA’s justification (right or wrong) was “the provisions of Articles 117 and 118 of the Code of Administrative Procedure.” With AIMA it’s sometimes easier/faster to just give in than try fight the borg.
I don’t think your husband and I are the only Primaries who have been asked by AIMA for crim records from our place of birth. I recall others writing about it on NG maybe a year ago?
Yes, we offered all of that, and we could get a police clearance from where we’re residing too! Waiting for the lawyer to get back. They initially said that if we wanted we could provide all that, in addition to the country of origin clearance. We’ve pushed back now. Fingers crossed.
