Opening an unexpected letter from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada asking for your fingerprints partway through a citizenship application can be unsettling. Most people assume that once they’ve completed the residency requirement, passed the citizenship test, and submitted their paperwork, biometrics are behind them. For the majority of applicants, that’s still true today — but…
If you’re fingerprinting against a deadline — a job start date, an immigration document, a licensing renewal, a citizenship application — the last thing you want is an avoidable delay. And yet avoidable delays are exactly what happen to a huge number of applicants every year, almost always because of a handful of predictable booking…
Getting fingerprinted sounds simple until you actually need to do it for a job, a visa application, a professional licence, or a volunteer role. Suddenly you’re staring at a dozen websites, all claiming to be “RCMP accredited,” all promising fast turnaround, and none of them explaining what accreditation actually means or why it matters. Choosing…
