Police Record

[ekgrulez 0]

Hi,

my wife had her interview at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo on Sept 12. Everything in the interview went well with the exception of her application which stated that she had been arrested before. However her police certificate was showing clear. In Japan police certificates will not contain information about any arrest if the person was not prosecuted or convicted; neither of which happened to my wife, in fact she did nothing wrong at all. But during the interview they were requesting that she mail a police record with information about the arrest and where to get the records. So we immediately went to the Prefectural Police station to ask them if they could help us at all. But the police said that they can't do anything for us based on the fact that they have no record of her arrest in 2003(5yrs or more records of any arrest is gone if no charge is made) and they gave us the contact information to the Yokohama District Prosecution for help. The only thing they could do for us was provide a Non Prosecution Disposition Letter which had an offical stamp with a brief reason of the arrest and the decision not to prosecute back in Oct 2003. We had the document translated in english and sent it to the Embassy. But I'm not sure if they will find this letter acceptable or not. This was the only evidence that we could provide for my wife. The interviewing officer said they needed some record of her arrest. They have all her documents at the Embassy including her passport, so I'm assuming if they get some record of her arrest her case will be good to go, but I'm not 100% sure.

I wish I never mentioned my wife's arrest on her application; we would be celebrating if this didn't happen. Has anyone been in a similar situation like this before? If the Embassy is not satisified with the information submitted what course of action is suggested? They said everything else in the interview was successful; they just want her arrest record. We both don't know what to expect and I blame myself for this situation.

[KevinF 3]

I understand your situation completely. I forgot that my fiancee lived in Morocco for a year and when she went for her interview, they took her passport but asked for a police certificate from Morocco. So we are presently getting a certificate. but getting one is not an easy venture. Once that is in hand, they will give her the visa. Fortunately, one can get it by proxy with the documents.

Every embassy is different, so I cannot tell you how long it will take. Hang in there. It will get done.

[Barbara J 115]

Hi,

my wife had her interview at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo on Sept 12. Everything in the interview went well with the exception of her application which stated that she had been arrested before. However her police certificate was showing clear. In Japan police certificates will not contain information about any arrest if the person was not prosecuted or convicted; neither of which happened to my wife, in fact she did nothing wrong at all. But during the interview they were requesting that she mail a police record with information about the arrest and where to get the records. So we immediately went to the Prefectural Police station to ask them if they could help us at all. But the police said that they can't do anything for us based on the fact that they have no record of her arrest in 2003(5yrs or more records of any arrest is gone if no charge is made) and they gave us the contact information to the Yokohama District Prosecution for help. The only thing they could do for us was provide a Non Prosecution Disposition Letter which had an offical stamp with a brief reason of the arrest and the decision not to prosecute back in Oct 2003. We had the document translated in english and sent it to the Embassy. But I'm not sure if they will find this letter acceptable or not. This was the only evidence that we could provide for my wife. The interviewing officer said they needed some record of her arrest. They have all her documents at the Embassy including her passport, so I'm assuming if they get some record of her arrest her case will be good to go, but I'm not 100% sure.

I wish I never mentioned my wife's arrest on her application; we would be celebrating if this didn't happen. Has anyone been in a similar situation like this before? If the Embassy is not satisified with the information submitted what course of action is suggested? They said everything else in the interview was successful; they just want her arrest record. We both don't know what to expect and I blame myself for this situation.

I don't think you will have a problem and once they have that Disposition letter it will be enough to satisfy them and I am sure you will hear something very soon Keep positive and hey they kept the passport so all systems Go

[ekgrulez 0]

Yeah I sure hope everything will turn out to be positive....I just want my wife to not lose any hope at all.

I told her if the Embassy isn't satisfied I'll take this up to an attorney. But I just hope the Embassy can realize

that we did everything we could following the interview.