What exactly are police clearance certificates for Canadian immigration purposes?

Brampton Immigration Consultancy
3 min readJun 28, 2023

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A guide to police clearances and solutions for overcoming criminal inadmissibility for Canadian immigration.

Police certificates prove an immigrant’s admissibility to Canada for Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC).

To demonstrate that they are not criminally inadmissible, each permanent resident candidate and their family members 18 years or older must complete a security clearance.

Police Clearance Certifications, also known as certificates of non-criminal activity, are required from the applicant’s current country of residency and from every other nation they have lived in for more than six months since becoming 18 years old.

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Police clearance certificates are often available from law enforcement or other government organisations. The Canadian Immigration Visa Offices will waive the need to provide police clearance certificates in some instances.

Immigrants must have obtained the police certificate for the nation where the applicant resides no more than six months before application. The police certificate must have been granted following the applicant’s most recent residence in a nation where they have lived for six months or more. A certified translation by a licensed translator must be provided with a certificate written in a language other than English or French.

Every application for Canadian immigration must also pass a background investigation to rule out any involvement in terrorism, subversion, or espionage. This is done to defend and preserve the peace and safety of Canadian society. To evaluate if a candidate threatens Canada’s internal security, security screening judgments are based on information from all available sources that are carefully weighed. An interview will be set with the applicant to go through these results where there are security concerns. Anyone with such a threat will not be allowed entry into Canada.

There is a significant difference between the background check, which the applicant is often not actively involved in, and the police clearance certificate, which the applicant must get.

Suppose an applicant or any of their dependents are found to be criminally inadmissible. In that case, they or their dependents may have their entrance to Canada, permanently or just temporarily, as tourists, foreign workers, or international students rejected.

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A person might be denied entry due to one of the following:

Serious Crime;

or Criminality.

Suppose you have a criminal record and are otherwise unable to enter Canada. In that case, you could be permitted to do so if the IRCC determines that you have either:

Deemed Rehabilitation

Individual Rehabilitation

You might need a Temporary Residence Permit (TRP) to enter Canada if you’re visiting for a brief time.

An adept immigration attorney can help you overcome criminal inadmissibility in any of these situations. Lawyers can provide a Legal Opinion Letter in support of your claim.

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