Fingerprints in Senegal, everything else by post and email
- Week 1Gets fingerprinted locally.
A local police station or shop rolls the C-216C form, and Awa posts it to an accredited company in Canada she has never spoken to.
- Week 4Card rejected.
Two impressions are unreadable. Nobody checked before it shipped. Back to step one.
- Week 7Result arrives, without the apostille.
Awa now has to find someone in Canada to obtain the Global Affairs Canada apostille and post the original again.
- Week 12Apostille back. Translation refused.
The translator she found is not one the Police des Étrangers (DPETV) accepts: the file needs a sworn French translation.
- Week 15Finally files.
Four providers, four invoices, and months gone.
One visit in Dakar, one file, one team
- Day 1Requests a visit, pays once.
Identity checked at her door in Dakar, prints reviewed on the spot, Letter of Identity Verification issued.
- Week 1Form reaches Globeia Incorporated, Toronto.
Digitised and submitted to the RCMP from inside Canada. Awa follows it in Globeia SmartPortal.
- Week 3Result received and checked.
The Global Affairs Canada apostille requested the same day, no re-posting, no new provider.
- Week 6Sworn French translation done.
By a translator the Police des Étrangers (DPETV) accepts, ordered after the apostille so nothing is done twice.
- Week 7Ready-to-file clearance in hand.
One invoice, one reference, and the file ready for a post with an international organisation.


