Who is "immediate" family?

[Ds Wife]

Hi all,

Pretty straight forward question for most people I'm sure but my husband really dosen't want to miss anything on the application so that the process ends there. Who do you include as immediate family on the security clearance declaration part of the application? What about 1/2 siblings, nieces/nephews, sister or brother in-laws, etc...? I was thinking yes to anything that involves the title sister/brother whether in-laws or only 1/2 siblings, but not including anyone further than that (ie. nieces/nephews etc...). What about your spouses "step" parents? Ahhh, to go back to the day when families were straight forward and simple

Thanks for the clarifications,
D's Wife

[RJB2004]

Guest-Ds said:

Hi all,

Pretty straight forward question for most people I'm sure but my husband really dosen't want to miss anything on the application so that the process ends there. Who do you include as immediate family on the security clearance declaration part of the application? What about 1/2 siblings, nieces/nephews, sister or brother in-laws, etc...? I was thinking yes to anything that involves the title sister/brother whether in-laws or only 1/2 siblings, but not including anyone further than that (ie. nieces/nephews etc...). What about your spouses "step" parents? Ahhh, to go back to the day when families were straight forward and simple

Thanks for the clarifications,
D's Wife

I cannot comment on the CPS form, but on the RCMP security clearance form immediate relatives as as follows:

-All children 18 years and over that you or your spouse or common-law partner have a parental relationship.
-Your father, mother, brothers, sisters. Include "half" or "step" relatives in the category.
-Your current spouse's or common-law partner's father and mother.

And this is for people living and dead.

Hope this helps somewhat

-Riley

[journey2cps-redux]

CPS form is similar, yet different...On my form I included spouse, children, parents, and MY brothers and sisters. Don't have my forms handy I'll have to double check on Monday, but I think I also included my wife's parents and sister. Once you get father on you will most likely have to submit another form with all aunts and uncles (both sides) as well. If in doubt, call recruiting to clarify, or just put everyone down at the start. Better to have too many than not enough, if ya know what I mean. Hope that helps.

[Ds Wife]

Thanks guys,

Just the advice I was looking for. I think we'll stick with brothers/sisters and parents both sides and not go any farther up the family tree at this point. Wow, aunts & uncles form down the line could get really labour intensive. Family's pretty big and I hope that criminal cousins won't interfere with the chances of being hired .

Starting to fill in the forms now but my husband won't have everything ready for submitting until April.

Thanks again,
D's Wife

[guest]

Your best bet DSWife would be to contact the recruiting section directly and get the answer from the horses mouth. Don't take heresay and applicants "best guesses". You don't want a call back from recruiting saying your apllication is incomplete. Doesn't bode well.

[journey2cps-redux]

^^^^
What he/she said. ;D