Is a scanned police certificate acceptable??

[keji247 0]

Hello fellow VJers! My fiancé had a scanned police certificate from Nigeria (the other country he had lived asides UK since age 16) sent to him a couple of years ago. My question now is can the same scanned certificate satisfied the interview requirements of our K1 visa? Or has the scanning invalidate its authenticity? Are we gonna have a new one collected and MAILED to him instead of the E-MAILED one?

Please help!

[Enki_Gisi 0]

yes you can send a scanned document as long as you bring the original document to the interview

[keji247 0]

yes you can send a scanned document as long as you bring the original document to the interview

He doesn't have the original certificate handy...they scanned and emailed it to him.

[Cathi 5,784]

He needs original at the interview

[aaron2020 11,651]

He needs the original. The original with the official government stamps on it.

Anything can be faked on a computer; especially in Nigeria. Using Adobe Acrobat Professional, I can change the text in any PDF. I could create a fake police certificate with fiance's name on it. This is why a scanned PDF is not acceptable. At his interview, he will need the original police certificate.

Edited June 22, 2012 by aaron2020

[keji247 0]

Thanks guys for your help! I guess we have to get on that and request that the original certificate be sent...we still waiting on NOA2 so it'd be not much of a rush

[cathy2904 97]

If he has had it for a couple of years the chances are that it wouldn't still be valid anyway.

[Sonita 1]

Nigerian police certificate is only valid for 3 months . The fingerprint section is valid for a year and can be used to renew the police certificate.

You need the original certificate at the London embassy , they will check this. I just had my interview last week in London and they checked it.