Police certificatesLast checked October 20, 2026
Police certificate for Canada
Certified Criminal Record Check (fingerprint-based)Vérification certifiée du casier judiciaireIn personBy postOfficial page(opens in a new tab)
- Local name
- Vérification certifiée du casier judiciaire
- Issued by
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Canadian Criminal Real Time Identification Services (CCRTIS)
- How to apply
- Have fingerprints taken at a local police service or an RCMP-accredited private fingerprinting company, which submits the application electronically to CCRTIS.
- From abroad
- Get a paper ten-print fingerprint set from a local police service, embassy/consulate or notary, then send it to an RCMP-accredited fingerprint company in Canada, which digitizes and submits it. Do not mail fingerprints directly to CCRTIS.
- Fee
- CA$25Federal processing fee per check, collected by the police service or accredited company; their own local fees are extra. Federal fee waived for some purposes (e.g. immigration to Canada, citizenship, volunteer work).
- Processing time
- 3 business days or less if no record match (electronic submissions); up to 120 business days if manual processing or a possible match
- Notes
- For travel, work, visa or immigration outside Canada, consent form RCMP 6674 is used by the accredited company or police agency.
Not confirmed
We couldn’t confirm these on an official page. Check the official page.
- 'post' channel means mailing paper fingerprints to an accredited Canadian company, not to the RCMP
- Fees and times for paper fingerprints from abroad not separately stated
- RCMP 6674 form detail came from a search summary of rcmp.ca, not a page fetched directly
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