Police Report lost? Was sent for in MARCH!!

[VisaJourneyLady 33]

and the London K-1 check list is scanned on this very website. You could print it out and send it to him.

[newenglander 0]

Has he sent back packet 3 yet? as he only need to include the forms there and tick the checklist and take all the other stuff to the interview

I don't think he has the forms to send in. Our lawyer here in the US took his information and filled it all in for him -- I think he needs those forms to send in and he's still waiting to receive them.

It's all gone crazy but I hope this is just a phase we're going through. Now the police don't want to refund his check! they just want to send a letter to London saying that he already paid -- he'll get his money back one way or another and will send it to London with his new form. He has also talked to the nice woman, Alice, at the help desk and has obtained useful information from her.

[pandora 0]

Think were all getting concerned here that your holding up packet 3 when there is no need to and you can get an interview date sorted, based on when i sent mine back on 22 May its taken 3 weeks to get packet 4 and then another 3 weeks till my interview date. So if he dl's and completes them its all information that you both know and sends it back tomorrow its going to be few more weeks before an interview date is set.

Thats why we keep asking. Its just that the longer you take sending packet 3 back you will have to then wait for packet 4 and then the interview date, so could be quite a while longer.

To send packet 3 back its just a case of filling in a few forms and sending those back - there is no need at this stage to send any evidence.

Hope this helps

Pandora

Guess were just concerned about you thats all and if the police cert isnt resolved by an interview date then the embassy will hold the visa awaiting the certificate and then forward it to him once they receive it.

[newenglander 0]

Think were all getting concerned here that your holding up packet 3 when there is no need to and you can get an interview date sorted, based on when i sent mine back on 22 May its taken 3 weeks to get packet 4 and then another 3 weeks till my interview date. So if he dl's and completes them its all information that you both know and sends it back tomorrow its going to be few more weeks before an interview date is set.

Thats why we keep asking. Its just that the longer you take sending packet 3 back you will have to then wait for packet 4 and then the interview date, so could be quite a while longer.

To send packet 3 back its just a case of filling in a few forms and sending those back - there is no need at this stage to send any evidence.

Hope this helps

Pandora

Guess were just concerned about you thats all and if the police cert isnt resolved by an interview date then the embassy will hold the visa awaiting the certificate and then forward it to him once they receive it.

UPDATE----UPDATE----UPDATE

Thank you for your kind concern, everyone. Just had a phone call -- Pete has FINALLY received the completed and ready to sign and send packet 3 from our lawyer. Ours has been very complicated, that's why we had to get a lawyer here in the US. She had HIM send HER the blank forms for HER to fill in and then send back to HIM. She sent them back to the wrong address but today the post office HAD THEM.

So now he has the correct police forms and has sent them in and he finally has packet 3 to send in. He says they wouldn't give him a date for his medical before he had packet 3. He's calling again today for the medical. He says after this experience he's sending everything by registered mail!!!!!!!!

So he will be delayed but in a way it's a good thing because our little doggie was put down on Sunday. She was an English doggie that he brought over here last summer and she died of old age more than anything. Now, being delayed like this, he will (we hope) have time to find another one like her to bring over when he comes. She was a Lancashire Heeler and you can barely get them over here. We want to become involved in helping to get this PERFECT breed of little doggie established and recognized in the USA.

THANKS AGAIN, everyone.

[BexandAlan 0]

Great news Lois! London seem to have a rocket up their butts right now so you guys will be getting an interview date in no time. Sorry to hear about your little dog. They are a lovely breed it will be quite exciting for Pete to be bringing another with him for the next step of your journey.

Best wishes!

Bex xxx

[VisaJourneyLady 33]

UPDATE----UPDATE----UPDATE

Thank you for your kind concern, everyone. Just had a phone call -- Pete has FINALLY received the completed and ready to sign and send packet 3 from our lawyer. Ours has been very complicated, that's why we had to get a lawyer here in the US. She had HIM send HER the blank forms for HER to fill in and then send back to HIM. She sent them back to the wrong address but today the post office HAD THEM.

So now he has the correct police forms and has sent them in and he finally has packet 3 to send in. He says they wouldn't give him a date for his medical before he had packet 3. He's calling again today for the medical. He says after this experience he's sending everything by registered mail!!!!!!!!

So he will be delayed but in a way it's a good thing because our little doggie was put down on Sunday. She was an English doggie that he brought over here last summer and she died of old age more than anything. Now, being delayed like this, he will (we hope) have time to find another one like her to bring over when he comes. She was a Lancashire Heeler and you can barely get them over here. We want to become involved in helping to get this PERFECT breed of little doggie established and recognized in the USA.

THANKS AGAIN, everyone.

NOOOOoooooo!!!!! Not registered mail!!!!!!! It has to be signed so gets diverted away from the post box and takes longer to get to the mail room and consequently takes longer to get in to the persons hand that's going to deal with it!!!!!!!!!

Having said that, I didn't know all of that when I sent back my packet 3, and to my shame, sent it registered

congrats on recieving pkt 3 finally, and condolences on your lovely doggie

[BexandAlan 0]

Oh I didn't know that about registered mail either. Hmmmmm.

[Alex & Rachel 78]

Congrats on sending off packet 3!

Sorry to hear about your dog. My grandparents have three Lancashire Heelers and they really are delightful little dogs; I like the idea of them becoming more popular in the US!

[newenglander 0]

Sorry to hear about your dog. My grandparents have three Lancashire Heelers and they really are delightful little dogs; I like the idea of them becoming more popular in the US!

and

NOOOOoooooo!!!!! Not registered mail!!!!!!! It has to be signed so gets diverted away

I'll tell him NO registered mail. Seems with this visa process sometimes you're d***ed if you do and d***ed if you don't. LOL BUT we are winning, we are all winning.

THREE Lancashire Heelers, your grandparents must have a lot of fun. Those dogs make people happy, that's what they like to do best, I think.

Thanks for the help and good luck all.

[VisaJourneyLady 33]

I'm sorry to say it, but i've never heard of lawyers actually improving this process. They seem to add to the stress rather than ease it.

Make sure to tell Pete to check the forms before he sends them. I have heard of lawyers putting the wrong info on the forms, and causing even further mess.

[newenglander 0]

The 4th of July and we have had a breakthrough. (They do happen.)

After Pete sent in the correct police form, nothing happened. Three weeks and nothing received so he started phoning them and phoning them. They kept saying it was in the pipeline, it had to run its course. FINALLY today they phoned him and said that they were very sorry but they had LOST two of his papers!

Fortunately they gave him a personal email address and he scanned and emailed the two missing papers to them so now they have them AGAIN. Now they're saying he should finally have the police report in a week.

They said -- ignore the instructions about not stapling the papers together. They are losing lots of them and they are snowed under -- he said they are under about 24" of snow/paperwork. So staple or put a paperclip on your papers. They are overwhelmed because they have had so much dumped on them, including checks for foreign doctors and dentists, police recruits, nurses,

etc.

[VisaJourneyLady 33]

So just to be clear, this is the ACPO cert that he has had trouble with? Because that is the only one the embassy will accept.

[newenglander 0]

So just to be clear, this is the ACPO cert that he has had trouble with? Because that is the only one the embassy will accept.

I'm not sure, it's just called the police certificate.

I'm not so happy now. It seems that the email that Pete sent with the two pages that they lost was never received. So Pete photocopied the two pages and sent them in again.

He's constantly in touch with them now -- latest news is that the forms he just sent in didn't have the date on them. So today he's scanned and emailed them again. If they don't get them this time, I assume he'll photocopy and SEND them AGAIN.

On the good side -- his contact person in (wherever they send for the police certificate) says that since his record is clean, he should just go ahead with the medical and at the medical they can just call HIM and he will vouch for Pete -- no waiting or pending.

[VisaJourneyLady 33]

The medical people aren't the ones that deal with the police report, it's the embassy, and they will only accept the ACPO report, and nothing else. I think it's worth clarifying this with Pete, as all this effort would be in vain, if it's getting a police report from the wrong dept.

The police cert that the embassy USED to accept, would still be the correct one for other purposes like working with children etc. It's not up to the police to tell you which form is correct, it's the embassy.