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Thanks for those answers. I will have to avoid Canada altogether, then. For the record, I was informed by a Canadian lawyer that, for one thousand dollars, they can write a letter that I can present to Canadian officials, and that this letter will have the effect of "legally pre-screening" me so that any raised eybrows on their side won't raise quite so high. The letter is entirely dependent on my verbal assertions of 'what' my 'criminal' past is, and that an FBI charge sheet/record would help as well.
I have a Disorderly Conduct Violation from NY 15 years ago. This is a violation only and is not a misdemeanor or a felony in NY. My record was sealed under NY state law in 1997 (Fingerprints removed from the NY State Criminal Database and expunged from the FBI)
Once I spoke to the Canadian Consulate briefly and they told me that there is no such thing as a non-criminal violation, and that all convictions show up in the FBI datatase if you want to visit Canada upon entry
Just to be sure I sent my fingerprints in to the FBI to check my record and my fingerprint card was returned to me with a "no arrest record found"
so if i went to visit Canada with my fingerprints supposedly expunged from the FBI, would they still show up in their system when i arrived at the border?
how does this work? FBI tells me once they're expunged, they're gone
Those kind of records usually only go back ten years. I have two DUI convictions from the '90s, and easily have been into Canada 10 times since then. You should have no problems!
Location: Big Island- Hawaii, AK, WA where the whales are!
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Good for you but... talking to border patorl last summer. I asked what the time period was for something like a DUI. A friend wanted to drive down AK to WA with me. Had one 11 years ago. They said there was no time period. It was completly up to the agent at the moment attitude if they wanted to make it an issue or not. Even if you pay the queens ransom.
As a past poster said on the this forum. They drove RV up to AK from states. On the way back home they denied entry and had to ship RV back to states and fly.
Location: Montreal -> CT -> MA -> Montreal -> Ottawa
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This experience is going back to 2004 and was not *my* experience, but that of someone I knew at the time.
He was flying from NYC to Montreal. He had been convicted of insider trading and had spent time in prison for it. He got into the country without a problem.
Your experience might differ, of course, but I'm just relating his experience.
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glad you posted this I have a question
