Beneficiary Background Check

[SRS77 4]

My fiance was able to obtain his (clean) police record from both his home country and his current country of residence (he is currently living outside his home country), but I am curious about other background checks the embassy might perform. Do they perform additional background checks on the beneficiary? I am thinking they may do an FBI check for him for the US. What about background checks in his home country and/or his current country of residence? I am just concerned about additional processing time that we may experience b/c he is out of his home country. Plus I am continually interested in what exactly occurs during each step of this process. It feels like I am in the dark trying to find the light switch 90% of the time w/all this! Anyone have any ideas about background checks after NOA2?

[Inky 1,110]

Yes they do FBI checks, they do name checks on you and the beneficiary they do background checks as well on both of you. The checks can take a few weeks to months and some people have been stuck in checks for a VERY long time.

[JoannaV 174]

When people have problems with long checks it is usually because of something like sharing a name with someone who has done bad things. Being outside his home country is not in itself going to slow up the process.