Police certificate expiration dates

[Anna Sif 0]

Does anyone know how strict they are with expiration dates of police certificates?

I'm still waiting for my NOA 2 but decided to start gathering some police certificates to be ready when the day comes (yeah, this process still hasn't stripped me of all optimism). So i sent a Police cert request to the UK which i know generally takes around 40 days and to Spain, a country who's bureaucracy is notoriously slow (specially since i had to request it through the danish embassy), but who would have thought! A week later, the spanish police certificate is in my mailbox, so i was all happy thinking how at last something seems to go fast in this process, when i read: this certificate expires in 3 months!!!

So, it's going to be tight, even if i get my NOA 2 soon, for it to still be valid by the time i get my interview, but if i'm lucky it'd be just a matter of days...

Has anybody been through something similar and how strict/understanding are they at the US embassy about this?

It won't be any fun if i end paying another 100 bucks for another certificate. So much for looking ahead and trying to be prepared.

So anyone from Spain or who's lived in Spain reading this, beware of this 3 month expiration period for the police cert. I didn't see it stated in any of the information I had, otherwise i would have waited a bit, so you know.

[Mew 0]

You should call the consulate/embassy where the interview will be held and ask about it. In Brazil, for example, certificates are good for 90 days only, but the consulate takes them for a whole year.