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Chamchiman · Joined: 24 Apr 2006 Location: Digging the Grave

I'm an F-2 visa holder and I'm in Canada now, trying to get a criminal record check done. As far as I know I don't even need it, but I thought I'd get it done here just in case the government changes the regs for F-2s (as this thread suggested: http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?p=1823217. I went in to my local RCMP detachment to get fingerprinted and they told me that in order to get fingerprinted I need a letter from Korea stating that I need the CRC in the first place.

There are two kinds of background checks available at the RCMP - the full-on fingerprint many-months variety, and the basic two page form that's done on the spot. Will the second one do?

Or, should I just forget the whole thing and take comfort in the fact that I'm an F-2 visa holder and therefore (for the time being) don't need to jump through this particular hoop?

(The reason I thought I'd get it "just in case" is because I've heard that various education offices require the criminal record check even though immigration doesn't require me to submit one. Any truth to that?)

Kimchieluver · Joined: 02 Mar 2005

polonius · Joined: 05 Jun 2004

For E2 visas, Canadians do not necessarily need to get fingerprinted for the RCMP check. As Kimchilover said though, make sure you get the VSS, it is a matter of checking one box.

chickenpie · Joined: 24 Dec 2008

Sensible to get it done.

But on the other hand wouldn't making F-2 visa holders submit a criminal record check to get the visa effectively mean that the Korean government would be dictating to Korean citizens who they could actually marry? Sounds like a human rigts issue, freedom to marry?

Kimchieluver · Joined: 02 Mar 2005

Insidejohnmalkovich · Joined: 11 Jan 2008 Location: Pusan

Make sure you get your fingerprinting done electronically when in Canada. If it is doen the old-fashioned way, it takes months to process. If done electronically, it takes a week.

Ask around. In New Brunswick, for example, the only place to get your fingerprints done electronically is from the Corps of Commissionaires in Saint John: the RCMP do not have the equipment in New Brunswick, they said.