Processing Times

Criminal Record and Vulnerable Sector (VS) Checks

Wait times for a criminal record checks and VS checks vary depending on many different factors such as:

• The type of submission received: paper fingerprint or electronic fingerprint
• The number of applications received at different times of the year
• The amount of manual processing related to the application

he chart below provides approximate wait times for fingerprint submissions received by the RCMP when there is no match to an RCMP fingerprint holding.