Well as I mentioned in one of my other posts, we are in process of getting our permanent residency in the USA and have been working on getting myself Italian Citizenship for almost a year now, the process is lengthy and there is a different direction depending on who you speak to and where. Also the Language barrier can be a factor, Luckily my Father in law and my wife’s uncles have come in to the rescue. The First step we had to do was actually register my wife with the Consulate in the USA since that is where we started the whole process. After registering with the consulate, we had to get a copy of our act of marriage, now here is where it gets tricky, we got married in Montreal, so we had to request a copy of the act from the government of Quebec. So we had to request that, and they charge about 30$ Canadian for that. So we had to have them mail that to us, in the US to then turn around and send it to the Italian Consulate in Montreal to get certified so they could then send it on to the town in Italy where my wife is Registered. Well After about 5 months, we had not heard or seen anything, we asked my father in-law to go to the consulate in Montreal, which is close to the house so not such a big deal and then confirmed that the papers were sent out and received about 3 months prior, so my father in law called the town office and they told him they couldn’t find it. so we Then had my Wife’s Uncle pay them a visit, he finally spoke to the person in charge of processing the paperwork and found that it was in a pile on his desk, so he got him to process it right away and give him the document, which we then finally got. Now we are at the next steps in the process where we have to get my birth certificate translated and Certified by the consulate in Montreal. We are now waiting on that, then we also have to get a certificate of no Criminal Record for the country of origin and every other country I have resided in, so for that we had to get fingerprints taken from the local police bureau here in the UK, the first set was 60GBP and each additional set was 30GBP. so we had to take 2 sets so far, one for Canada and one for the US. And we have sent those off and now have to wait for them to get processed, for Canada according to the website it is taking about 120 days for them to process manual fingerprints the US is a little quicker about 3-4 weeks. And then I will need to get a certificate for the UK as well. Luckily that does not need to be translated or anything. I will include the links to the websites to give you some additional information.
FBI Fingerprint Criminal Justice Information division
RCMP Canadian Real Time Identification Service
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