A "not guilty" question

[transatlantic1 0]

This might seem like a really stupid question and i'm not exactly sure if i'm posting in the right forum, but I bet you guys know the answer. Here's our situation; My fiance just got his UK police certificate back and it has a record of an incident he got into a few years ago. Someone he was having trouble with charged him with common assault to get him in trouble at his job. He was charged, went to court, the person never showed up. They rescheduled the court date three times and the person never showed up so they dismissed the charges. On his police record it says something like Common assault, not guilty, no evidence, charges dismissed. My question is how do we handle this on the forms. When it asks has he ever been convicted he says no right? Should he include a letter just explaining the circumstances? How exactly should we handle it? Bottom line should I be worried?(*praying* please say no) Thanks for any advice you can give.

mary

[Girona40 0]

This might seem like a really stupid question and i'm not exactly sure if i'm posting in the right forum, but I bet you guys know the answer. Here's our situation; My fiance just got his UK police certificate back and it has a record of an incident he got into a few years ago. Someone he was having trouble with charged him with common assault to get him in trouble at his job. He was charged, went to court, the person never showed up. They rescheduled the court date three times and the person never showed up so they dismissed the charges. On his police record it says something like Common assault, not guilty, no evidence, charges dismissed. My question is how do we handle this on the forms. When it asks has he ever been convicted he says no right? Should he include a letter just explaining the circumstances? How exactly should we handle it? Bottom line should I be worried?(*praying* please say no) Thanks for any advice you can give.

mary

If the question on the form is "Have you ever been CONVICTED" then the answer is "No".

[pulteseller 0]

Keep it simple. The line in the sand is clearly whether he was convicted or not, as stated in the question. No, you do not need to mention it.

[munchkins 0]

I too would put no, the case was dismissed as no evidence was produced, therefore I should not worry about it

They may ask him about it at his interview, he just has to answer honestly about what happened without going into things in great depth. Keep it simple but truthful. Then again because the case was dismissed I feel he should be just fine.

Edited November 29, 2006 by munchkins

[meauxna 15]

Save the court resolution for when he has the form that asks 'have you ever been arrested'.

[ktmmansgal 0]

So how come it shows up on his police record then ok he was charged etc but are we talking the record from Scotland yard or just the court record cos if it is on his NIS document then it will be looked at when you interview so I would say honesty is always the best policy in these sort of things,as if you try to sneak one past them and they get you they will start digging really deep.

[transatlantic1 0]

My impression was that the police record covered court records too, or am I wrong? He asked for the subject access form, they said that was the right one for visas. They set trial dates but the person accusing him never showed up so it was dismissed. So there are court records. We would never try to cover something up so based on the advice here, if any question says "have you ever been convicted?" he will say no. If it asks about being arrested or charged with something he will say yes and explain. Everything should be alright I hope. This seems like the right way to go, right?