getting into canada with a criminal record

[CHRISLEE492]

My friends and myself want to go to canada on holiday. One of them has a criminal record. Will they know this when he lands, do they have details of UK criminal records.

[JoolsTwo]

It shouldn't make any difference. If I remember rightly the form you fill in before landing doesn't ask about a criminal record. Just about things you are bringing it to the country. If you're British you don't need a visa to visit Canada.

[dzug]

Canada has been tightening up on this sort of thing recently - it's always been the case that a criminal conviction debars you from visiting but they've rarely actually bothered to ask or check.

They do seem (read in another newsgroup) to have a lot of data on US convictions - what they have on UK ones, if anything, I've no idea.

Unlike the USA it has to have been an actual conviction - just an arrest doesn't count - and they do have the concept of rehabilitation - 5 years for a minor offence, 10 for a more serious one.

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/visit/conviction. html#deemed

has some interesting info.

As Jimjools says, I don't think they routinely ask about this sort of thing, particularly on a short holiday visit.