Police Certificates

[UnhappyVictimAmer 2]

I am currently waiting for NOA2 for 2 months now. I am a U.S. citizen married to an Indonesian and I am living with her in her country. I've been trying to find out about getting the police certificate ahead of time to give to the NVC. I've read many posts stating that they needed cover letters from the NVC or letters from the embassy in order for the police to issue such certificates.

However, the NVC website states that such police certificates are not available in some countries and I think Indonesia is one of them. From their website;

"Unavailable for applicants inside and outside Indonesia. Indonesian police certificates require initial processing at a local or village level, which is nonstandard in nature, can be subject to capricious decisions by officials and may require nonofficial payments to proceed further.”

http://travel.state.gov/visa/fees/fees_4881.html?cid=3584

What does this mean for me when I get the request from NVC?

[YuAndDan 153]

For places that DOS website says police certs are not available the NVC and Consulate will understand why you did not get one and wont ask you for something you cannot get.

For example, my wife did time in the Chinese army, NVC and Consulate indicate in the standard P3 doc "military records" but for China you cannot get them acording to DOS site so we did not try to get, had no problems even with minitary service noted on paperwork.

[meb5 1]

My wife worked in Dubai before and the UAE won't issue police certificates unless the person is living there. The NVC only requested certificates from Macau and Hong Kong from her.

Sounds like that 'nonofficial payment' means you have to grease somebodys hand as in 'nonstandard in nature' implies.

[UnhappyVictimAmer 2]

OK thanks guys...I guess I'll just leave it out without an explanation. @meb5 yeah there's a lot of bribing going on over here as a normal everyday way of business. For some reason when they see me the rates go up all the time