Check Returned in Royal Mail!

[VadnVince 24]

My fiancee' sent off her application for the police certificate to ACRO a couple weeks ago, then set her medical interview date for Aug 5th. But, Saturday, she received a letter from Royal Mail notifying her of damaged/opened mail and it only contained her uncancelled check! Don't know if the personal information requested has been lost/stolen, or if made it to ACRO without the check! It appears that the Post Offices run in the UK are privately operated, versus the U.S. Govt run P.O. here, so ANYTHING could happen. HINDSIGHT says, she should have sent it registered mail! We'll see what happens and hoping identity theft is not involved.

Edited July 25, 2011 by VadnVince

[JoannaV 174]

Hope it works out ok :-(

Have to say though... 1 - LOLZ USA is socialist, and 2 - what is up with zip code "areas"??!

Did they just have the cheque and not the envelope? I guess it could be anything, theft or just a machine that ripped it up and so maybe you'll get the rest of the packet returned sometime too.

On the practical side, if you're really worried about getting the police certificate before the medical then I can tell you that the Premium service for the police certificate is very fast, like very very. (Except when the post office is striking lol.)

Also, I read a post recently of someone who'd gone to the medical before receiving their police certificate, and it went fine, just the doctors told them to fax the police certificate in and once they're received that they would forward the medical results to the Embassy. So slight delay there, but nothing monumental.

[Shermeen&Adam 0]

My fiancee' sent off her application for the police certificate to ACRO a couple weeks ago, then set her medical interview date for Aug 5th. But, Saturday, she received a letter from Royal Mail notifying her of damaged/opened mail and it only contained her uncancelled check! Don't know if the personal information requested has been lost/stolen, or if made it to ACRO without the check! It appears that the Post Offices run in the UK are privately operated, versus the U.S. Govt run P.O. here, so ANYTHING could happen. HINDSIGHT says, she should have sent it registered mail! We'll see what happens and hoping identity theft is not involved.

Was the cheque filled out correctly? I would send all the documentation back again and pay the extra to have it rushed through. You can also call them to find out what went wrong, whether they even received her details.

[N&S 32]

To be honest, I doubt that it has arrived at ACRO - I accidentally sent my request with the cheque but forgot to sign the latter and they rang me up around the time they said it would take to process to let me know that the cheque wasn't signed and that they would void it and for me to send another cheque, so I'm sure they would have been in touch with her before now about the application without payment

[VadnVince 24]

Was the cheque filled out correctly? I would send all the documentation back again and pay the extra to have it rushed through. You can also call them to find out what went wrong, whether they even received her details.

Cheque (check, chek) was fine. Called & fine it was just a machine error because the BC got there just fine. So they're holding the app until sends another cheque. Thanks.

To be honest, I doubt that it has arrived at ACRO - I accidentally sent my request with the cheque but forgot to sign the latter and they rang me up around the time they said it would take to process to let me know that the cheque wasn't signed and that they would void it and for me to send another cheque, so I'm sure they would have been in touch with her before now about the application without payment

Cheque (check, chek) was fine. Called & fine it was just a machine error because the BC got there just fine. So they're holding the app until sends another cheque.

[VadnVince 24]

Did they just have the cheque and not the envelope? I guess it could be anything, theft or just a machine that ripped it up and so maybe you'll get the rest of the packet returned sometime too.

On the practical side, if you're really worried about getting the police certificate before the medical then I can tell you that the Premium service for the police certificate is very fast, like very very. (Except when the post office is striking lol.)

Also, I read a post recently of someone who'd gone to the medical before receiving their police certificate, and it went fine, just the doctors told them to fax the police certificate in and once they're received that they would forward the medical results to the Embassy. So slight delay there, but nothing monumental.

Thanks for the last part on the being able to fax the certificate. She's ready to cancel the appointment because she doesn't have it. Seems more "Socialist" to me that a clinic requires the police certificate when they're supposed to be contracted and non-government. Hmmmmm? Cheque (check, chek) was fine. Called & found it was just a machine error because the BC got there just fine. So they're holding the app until sends another cheque. Thanks!!!!

[little_g 35]

Thanks for the last part on the being able to fax the certificate. She's ready to cancel the appointment because she doesn't have it. Seems more "Socialist" to me that a clinic requires the police certificate when they're supposed to be contracted and non-government. Hmmmmm? Cheque (check, chek) was fine. Called & found it was just a machine error because the BC got there just fine. So they're holding the app until sends another cheque. Thanks!!!!

We think the police cert is so that the doctor can asses from past behaviors any "red flags" linking the beneficiary to mental health issues.

Still really scary that the forms made it but the check didn't wonder if someone got caught trying to 5 finger it? Things that make you go Hrmmmm