Background checks

CHC-London requested my RPRF Monday, so I am thinking the next step in my application is my Medicals and Background check?? What exactly do Immigration check? Obviously the routinely check criminal records and dealings with any criminals and such like, do they check credit scores, employment, election rolls, County Courts, do credit checks etc?

What if you have a County Court Judgement that has not been paid? Would that go against me? My Police Check came back "No Trace"

Thanks Audball,

I feel so Close..yet still so far away!! I just found this in an OP manual for Spouse PR

Right of Permanent Residence Fee

You will need to pay the Right of Permanent Residence Fee before your spouse or common-law partner’s application for permanent resident status can be finalized. We will send you a request to pay this fee when we are ready to grant permanent resident status to your spouse or common-law partner. The fee is $490 for your spouse or common-law partner. Dependent children are exempt.

I have generally been a good citizen, I have never been involved in any Criminal activities or been any kind of security risk!

County court judgement is not part of it, so i am sure you will be fine and dont panic Brit, Dont Panic, I told you from day one. Well the only holdback is once they get your payment then you are ok to get your PR, I understand and read on another forum on this. They wont let you pay PR fees and reject you. Background checks have already been done.

Thanks every one, I am trying to relax but finding it difficult...I want to tell myself we have done it and that everything is ok...but I know that its not all over until I have landed...hopefully soon..My Police certificate expires on 28th October... So please God I get my Passport with Visa in it before then!

We have spent 5 years with me pretending for 4 1/2 of it that I am living a "normal"life..in truth with the exception of the 6 months I went home if have felt like my life has been on hold..and I personally think my Husband deserves a medal for all his hard work supporting us all for all this time!! We have all made so many sacrifices..Kids including...there are so many times we have had to disappoint them and so many things we haven't been able to buy them or do with them..especially the boys! I just want it to be over and to live a "normal life" and feel like I really belong in Canada!  

Generally police certificates do not expire like the medical exam; what matters is that a timely certificate is submitted with the application.

That said, renewed police certificates can be requested at any time. For some countries in which processing the application takes a year or so, it is common to request a current police certificate before a visa is actually issued. For anyone who has been in Canada during the process, however, it is very unlikely that there would be a request for an updated police certificate. For applicants from countries like the UK, moreover, an electronic database query is ordinarily adequate once a police certificate has become part of the file -- and indeed, as I have oft said, I believe the electronic query of databases for criminal records is routinely done at perhaps every decision making stage of the process . . . when they make a decision, when they go to finally issue the visa and affix it to the passport, and when the applicant actually lands as well.

But bottom line, especially for someone from the UK, and more so for someone who has been in Canada while the app was in process, the police certificate will not "expire" and there is very little likelihood of a more timely police certificate being requested.

If have sent in the proof of paying the Right of Landing Fee, this will undoubtedly all be done a lot, lot sooner than the end of October.