I am afraid of not passing the background checking because of the involvement of my brother and my uncle in a drug cartel.

Hello,

I am a Mexican American attending a target school in the US (Yale/Princeton/Penn/Dartmouth) and looking for a career in IB. I am going to start applying for SA programmes next year. I have been told that Investment Banks conduct a very comprehensive background checking to all candidates before extending an offer. 

Although I have a clean record, some people in my family in Mexico can't say the same. My older brother and my uncle are members of a renown cartel in Mexico. Actually, my uncle is wanted by the DEA and the FBI, while my brother is wanted by the Mexican Federals, and he has been in jail several times for drugs smuggling. 

As I said before, my record is completely clean, my parents made a huge effort to keep me away from this world, but I am afraid this could appear in my background check and banks could hesitate to hire me for this. 

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target school in the US (Yale/Princeton/Penn/Dartmouth) 

Congrats on Dartmouth! But if there haven't been problems for now, I don't foresee your family background being an issue during recruiting. Makes for a great "tell me about yourself" story though

 

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