Police Check - VN

[JRF 117]

I know the requirement is for my VN wife to obtain a police check covering the period since she was 16 - but I am a little confused in that the form she completed in HCM for the police check asked for all of the places she lived since she was 14. She lived in her home province from 16-18 and moved to HCM where she has lived (in the same house) ever since.

Will she need to get a separate police check from the home province or will the check she ordered in HCM cover that - will they actually perform a check on all places she stated she lived or just HCM?

[jac_chappin 24]

OP - She needs to get Justice check in her home province. Each province has something similar to the Hall of Justice and police clearance must be from this place not a local police station. My fiancee then (wife now) was confused about it too and tried to get it in HCMC but they told her she needed it from her home province so that's what she did. It took about a month. I hope this helps.

[JRF 117]

@jac_chappin...thanks for the feedback. Unfortunately now even more confused as my wife ordered this a week ago from HCMC - they told her to come back on 20 June and it would be ready. She hasn't lived in the home province for 16 years but if we end up needing anything from them it would go quickly - I am more worried about not meeting USG requirements.

[jmhull 2]

Your wife might be fine. The "home province" here should be understood as where she is registered as a permanent resident (term in Vietnamese is "dang ky ho khau thuong tru"). Even though she was born and lived until she was 18, as you said, somewhere else, she could have registerd permament residency in HCMC when she moved there. Then she should go to Justice Department (So Tu phap) in HCMC to apply for the paper. In your case, seems like your wife did just that. If she hadn't been eligible to apply for it at HCMC department of justice, they wouldn't have accepted her paperwork. So no worries there.

Also, she will only need ONE police record, plus no second Justice department will give her another. What happens is that Justice department in HCMC performs background checks with police department at other places where she resided before, then compiles into only one record. Take my case as an example - born in one place and lived there until 18, then lived in 2 other places (none of them HCMC), but i had my record applied at and issued by HCMC Justice department, just because my residency is registered with parents, who live in HCMC.

Hope that helps.

Edited June 7, 2013 by jmhull

[JRF 117]

@jmhull..thank you very much. I appreciate all of the details. I feel comfortable what we are going to get from HCMC will work. My wife was never in doubt..but I am an accountant and like to check and re-check!

[AnhDoiEm 9]

HCM, you can get it in So Tu Phap, (department of justice), my get that piece paper take about 20 days. GL