Local Police Clearance in Nadiad, India

[gundas 1]

So, my I-130 just got approved recently but my wife is saying that they will not give her a local police clearance without interview letter. Now when the time comes to submit the DS-230 form I will not be sending any police clearances with the form. Is this OK? Can I just state in the cover letter that I will submit both the local and regional PCC to VFS or at time of interview? Has anyone done this before and got the DS-230 approved?

[CTRL+ALT+DEL 1]

take your NA02 + NVC/USCIS letters and whatever else documents you have from NVC/USICS and tell them this is the approval letter

[Bheju 0]

Buddy

I am going through same thing. And here is the wisdom from my experience.

You do not need to send Local PCC with DS 230 form. (If you want, send copy of it). But DO NOT send original.

The passport office will ask for original and will not grant you the PCC from passport office. And you will not be able to get second PCC from local police office within 6 months. And that will cause issues ( I just made mistake of sending original of Local PCC and going throuh hell to fix it).

Having said that. You should start working on getting both PCCs for later time.

Cheers,

Bheju Bawra

[gundas 1]

Buddy

I am going through same thing. And here is the wisdom from my experience.

You do not need to send Local PCC with DS 230 form. (If you want, send copy of it). But DO NOT send original.

The passport office will ask for original and will not grant you the PCC from passport office. And you will not be able to get second PCC from local police office within 6 months. And that will cause issues ( I just made mistake of sending original of Local PCC and going throuh hell to fix it).

Having said that. You should start working on getting both PCCs for later time.

Cheers,

Bheju Bawra

Thanks for the advice, will they accept a copy of the Local PCC?

[k.loveh 0]

So, my I-130 just got approved recently but my wife is saying that they will not give her a local police clearance without interview letter. Now when the time comes to submit the DS-230 form I will not be sending any police clearances with the form. Is this OK? Can I just state in the cover letter that I will submit both the local and regional PCC to VFS or at time of interview? Has anyone done this before and got the DS-230 approved?

I never heard of that. What is their 'reason' for having to have the Interview letter?

I don't think that the police report or the passport pcc is due to be sent in with the DS-230...just the Ds-230 and the Applicants statement that the listed required docs are in the beneficiary' possession.

I wouldn't send these in until your wife has the police reports in her hands as it could/can take up to several weeks to get them. Especially the PCC. 'Because'..once they get these, they will schedule her the interview appointment and it may be not enough time for you to get all necessary docs in hand to submit via the VFS.

PS) You can contact (find them online) a travel agent that has frequent dealings with your areas passport office and they can help you.

Edited August 23, 2009 by hkgaur

[Bheju 0]

Buddy

I am going through same thing. And here is the wisdom from my experience.

You do not need to send Local PCC with DS 230 form. (If you want, send copy of it). But DO NOT send original.

The passport office will ask for original and will not grant you the PCC from passport office. And you will not be able to get second PCC from local police office within 6 months. And that will cause issues ( I just made mistake of sending original of Local PCC and going throuh hell to fix it).

Having said that. You should start working on getting both PCCs for later time.

Cheers,

Bheju Bawra

Thanks for the advice, will they accept a copy of the Local PCC?

NVC does not need PCC from local Police. But as you can never be too careful, you might want to send a copy. BUT keep in mind that you WILL need the original for Passport office. without original from local police, the passport office will not issue you certificate.

Just a heads-up: NVC will most likely send you RFE for PCC. You can jsut send them an e-mail stating that you will bring it with you for interview. and they will be fine with it. Then once you get your interview letter, you will have to submit the PCC from passport office along with few more documents to local VFS.

Cheers,

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was there a resolution to this? what happened after your local police station refused a PCC? have local police stations in Gujarat started to give out PCCs? what is consulate doing when interviewer goes there without local PCC?

[gundas 1]

was there a resolution to this? what happened after your local police station refused a PCC? have local police stations in Gujarat started to give out PCCs? what is consulate doing when interviewer goes there without local PCC?

She got the Local PCC by showing the AOS cover page and NVC accepted a color photocopy of the Local PCC for the DS-230. I made a note in there that she will submit the original at time of interview and will present the Passport PCC at time of interview as well.

[portlib_jc 0]

was there a resolution to this? what happened after your local police station refused a PCC? have local police stations in Gujarat started to give out PCCs? what is consulate doing when interviewer goes there without local PCC?

She got the Local PCC by showing the AOS cover page and NVC accepted a color photocopy of the Local PCC for the DS-230. I made a note in there that she will submit the original at time of interview and will present the Passport PCC at time of interview as well.

so you were able to submit the PCC at the time of interview ? We are facing the same issue , ahmeadbad pass-office is not issuing PCC until you show the appointment letter.

what did you send to NVC with ds-230 ?

[gundas 1]

was there a resolution to this? what happened after your local police station refused a PCC? have local police stations in Gujarat started to give out PCCs? what is consulate doing when interviewer goes there without local PCC?

She got the Local PCC by showing the AOS cover page and NVC accepted a color photocopy of the Local PCC for the DS-230. I made a note in there that she will submit the original at time of interview and will present the Passport PCC at time of interview as well.

so you were able to submit the PCC at the time of interview ? We are facing the same issue , ahmeadbad pass-office is not issuing PCC until you show the appointment letter.

what did you send to NVC with ds-230 ?

With the DS-230 I sent in Color Copy of Local PCC and stated that original Passport PCC and original Local PCC will be submitted to VFS.