Police Certificate

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Does the police certificate need to be translated from Russian into English for the interview?

Thanks for your help!

[payxibka 10,045]

Does the police certificate need to be translated from Russian into English for the interview?

Thanks for your help!

From the US Embassy - Moscow website:

Instructions and List of Documents for Fiance(e) Visa Interview

* Please read through these instructions before the interview and follow them carefully because they are the most complete available. All documents should be supplied ON THE DAY OF THE INTERVIEW.

* Children immigrating with you must also be present at the interview.

* Please note that no one may accompany applicants into the Embassy's visa waiting room. This includes American citizens, attorneys, sponsors, friends, and family members.

* Each applicant should bring all the required documents.

* Copies and translations of each document into English are required. Translations must be notarized only when the original is in a language OTHER than Russian. (e.g. a translation from Ukrainian into English must be notarized, translation from Russian into English does not need to be notarized).

* Payment. Please pay the application fee ($100 dollars for each applicant) ON THE DAY OF THE INTERVIEW only after an Embassy employee instructs you to do so. We accept dollars and rubles. Credit cards are not acceptable.

* It is necessary to submit the original DHL airway bill for express delivery of your visa after the interview.

* Tickets. We strongly advise not to buy tickets or make any final travel arrangements before you receive a visa.

[slim 1,525]

NO!

The police certificate is issued from a Russian agency and is taken to the embassy IN RUSSIA, where believe it or not, they can read Russian.

You have to have all the stuff translated that you send in here because the American that works in Nebraska (or Vermont, or California, or wherever) that processes your initial case can't read Russian. (Or Chinese, or Tagalog, or Urdu, and probably not even Spanish.) When your beneficiary goes to their interview, there is someone at the interview that can read the native language.

It looks like it is "mandatory" to have a translation of all documents. That's fine, have your beneficiary translate the document themselves, or go to the same person that translated their birth/divorce/death certificates for your initial packet. Translations in Russia can be done very cheaply, and within minutes. That'll ensure the "piece of mind" factor. So, go ahead and get it translated just to be safe. (ANYONE can translate, they just have to sign saying "I certify that I can translate Russian and English, or something to that effect.)

Is it a necessity.... NO. The name and number is going to be the same one that's on the passport, and if it's only a one page printout with nothing on it, it's going to be obvious, even to Americans, that there's no criminal record on there.