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In most cases, you must contact the police or government to ask for a certificate. You may have to:
provide information or documents, such as photographs, fingerprints, or your addresses and dates that you lived in the country or territory, and pay a fee.
If contact information is not available there, contact the national police agency, or your country or territory’s embassy or consulate in Canada.
If you lived in a country that has changed its name or status, the police certificate should come from the current national authorities of that country. If you are not able to get a police certificate from a country because you are a refugee from that country or for any other reason, explain the reasons in writing.
We will also do background checks anywhere you and your family members have lived. These checks will show if you have had any arrests or convictions, or if you are a security risk to Canada.
provide information or documents, such as photographs, fingerprints, or your addresses and dates that you lived in the country or territory, and
pay a fee.
Use this online tool to find out how and where to get a police certificate in the country where you live: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/security/police-cert/index.asp
If contact information is not available there, contact the national police agency, or your country or territory’s embassy or consulate in Canada.
If you lived in a country that has changed its name or status, the police certificate should come from the current national authorities of that country. If you are not able to get a police certificate from a country because you are a refugee from that country or for any other reason, explain the reasons in writing.
We will also do background checks anywhere you and your family members have lived. These checks will show if you have had any arrests or convictions, or if you are a security risk to Canada.