Police Certificate

[Sling 0]

my fiance lived in her town since for like 1 year at 16, then she moved to another city (all russia). But right now she lives with her aunt and attends the university. It is not her apt and no bills are on her. The only thing is the university. What you guys recommend. I hear police certificates expire? If she gets a police certificate from that town will it expire by the interview date?

[Ladylethal 12]

Have her get it later, and remember, those certificates go by state, not town.

[Chuckles 0]

my fiance lived in her town since for like 1 year at 16, then she moved to another city (all russia). But right now she lives with her aunt and attends the university. It is not her apt and no bills are on her. The only thing is the university. What you guys recommend. I hear police certificates expire? If she gets a police certificate from that town will it expire by the interview date?

Its really too early for you to start worrying about Police certificates.

[Sling 0]

my fiance lived in her town since for like 1 year at 16, then she moved to another city (all russia). But right now she lives with her aunt and attends the university. It is not her apt and no bills are on her. The only thing is the university. What you guys recommend. I hear police certificates expire? If she gets a police certificate from that town will it expire by the interview date?

Its really too early for you to start worrying about Police certificates.

no she goes back to her town in the city 2 times a year. Next time she will go in july.

[TracyTN 237]

Well, call me crazy, but I'd at least meet the lady first before I started sweating details like a police certificate - which is a ways down the road in the process anyway.

As it goes, most places allow you to order the certificates either via the post or online. I don't see why she would have to physically go request one.

[Kevin&Loan 0]

Police Certificate is only good for 6 MONTHS. You should only worry about getting these certificates when you are getting packet 3 --- Good luck

[slim 1,525]

Sling, first off... get your butt over to the Russia forum. (Scroll down from the K-1 forum to the General discussion area, click on Russia under the Regional Forums section.)

This K-1 forum is awesome for general questions about I-129F, G-325A, the complete process, etc., but for actual questions about specific things in Russia... Russia is a "special" place, and those of us over on the Russia forum will be able to better assist you with questions like police certs and things of that nature.

I'm not knocking this K-1 section... everyone here has given me a lot of help!!! But Russia has a lot of special rules and circumstances that are different from other countries.

That said.... the main thing is to make sure that she has a police certificate covering every place and time listed on her G-325A. She will also get the packet 3 once your case gets to the embassy, and she will need to ensure that those papers line up with your papers and her police checks line up with everything else. If she's attending Uni somewhere, she will most definitely need a police check from there because I'm assuming that she's listing student as her occupation right now. Russian police checks are done by region, so if all of her addresses and jobs, etc. are in the same region (krai) she should be OK with just one police check.

As far as expiration, I wouldn't worry too much about that. It takes several weeks or months to get the police check (for free) so by the time she actually gets it, it should still be good.

If you haven't filed your K-1 yet, I would recommend using the address on her internal passport as her only address, and listing the university as her job. Then, get a police check from both (or maybe only one if they're in the same region) regions. If you have already filed, ensure that all addresses, jobs, etc., have police checks for the corresponding regions.

Any questions, feel free to PM me, and hope to see you in the Russia forum soon with your story and what's going on with your case.