I am sponsoring my wife for permanent residency in Canada. We have resided in the US since 2003. My wife has both

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According to the processing guidelines for spousal sponsorships, Canada Immigration requires applicants to submit a police clearance certificate for any country where they have lived most of their years since 18.

In your wife' case, since turning 18 (which was 31 years ago) she has lived in the U.S. 17 years which is more than half of these 31 years.

Therefore, she should not have to obtain a Mexican police clearance certificate. The FBI clearance should be sufficient.

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Sure - here is the link to Canada Immigration's website regarding spousal sponsorship - the police clearance requirements are found in the instructions and document checklist

You have to access the set of instructions and the checklist for the U.S - ( each country has their own checklist )

https://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/applications/spouse.asp