Police Certificate for Visa

If you are in the process of applying for a travel, work or student visa, and your government agency requires a document indicating that you have no criminal convictions in Canada, you can obtain a Certificate through the RCMP or through the RCMP accredited B.C. Corp of Commissionaires in the Vancouver area.

Please call before attending either location to confirm service hours.

RCMP Headquarters
(604) 264-3111
5255 Heather St.
Vancouver
V5Z 1K6.

B.C. Corp of Commissionaires
(604) 646-3330

Vancouver Police can provide fingerprint service for those individuals who attend in person and are required to submit a full set of fingerprints to Ottawa for a fingerprint search. The service timeline for the fingerprint search by RCMP in Ottawa is determined by their policy and volume.

If our ink fingerprint service to Ottawa does not meet your timeline, please check the RCMP website for a local fingerprint agency accredited by the RCMP who can provide electronic fingerprint and mobile print service.

Vancouver Police can also provide a local police record check by conducting a query by name and date of birth.

The local check for a Visa application consists of searching:

CPIC (Canadian Police Information Centre- RCMP National database) for criminal convictions, however, this search may not include convictions by other police agencies that have not yet been entered in the CPIC database in Ottawa (item #1 on the form)
Provincial court query for charges before the courts and charges regardless of disposition (item #2 and #3 on the form)
local police database records for allegations of substantiated negative contact with police where the outcome did not reach a charge (item #4 on the form)
Vulnerable Sector enhanced fingerprint search in Ottawa for pardoned sex offences - the position can be within or outside Canada, but the employer / agency must be based in Canada for us to request that Ottawa conduct this search (item #5 on the form)

For enquiries about the enhanced vulnerable sector search, please visit http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/index-eng.htm and/or http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/cr-cj/vulner/index-eng.htm.

For enquiries about Foreign country documentation and authentication requirements:

Documentation required by foreign country - contact the Consulate of the country you are travelling to in the city you reside or, if not available, contact the Embassy in Ottawa through Services Canada at 1 (800) 622-6232 or www.servicecanada.gc.ca.
Authentication of documents for Foreign country - call Department of Foreign Affairs Enquiries Service at www.candoc.gc.ca or call 1 (800) 267-8376