Can I sent a copy of the police certificate instead of the original?

[Hali1989 7]

So my fiance and I are preparing the documents for the embassy. We received an email with a list of all of the documents including police certificates. We have documents from three countries, so we figured it would be better to gather everything and send it in one package. My fiance will send me copies of birth certificate, passport, passport photos, etc I will be completing the I-134, DS-160, W-2, etc

Problem: I cannot mail my documents to my fiance since he is in Sudan, and he can't send documents to the US due to the embargo imposed by the US on Sudan. No mail services relations between the two countries.

Question: Can I have him send me a copy of his police certificate by email and he can take the original with him to the interview?

[sma1488 155]

Are you sure you need to submit everything as one package? It sounds like something I would e-mail the embassy about to avoid unnecessary worries about you shipping everything. You should also be able to e-mail them to ask about the police certificate, since they would know better than any of us.

Also, you can't complete the DS-160 for him. The instructions are clear about this.

[lizascissors 65]

So my fiance and I are preparing the documents for the embassy. We received an email with a list of all of the documents including police certificates. We have documents from three countries, so we figured it would be better to gather everything and send it in one package. My fiance will send me copies of birth certificate, passport, passport photos, etc I will be completing the I-134, DS-160, W-2, etc

Problem: I cannot mail my documents to my fiance since he is in Sudan, and he can't send documents to the US due to the embargo imposed by the US on Sudan. No mail services relations between the two countries.

Question: Can I have him send me a copy of his police certificate by email and he can take the original with him to the interview?

So I'm assuming that since your fiance is in Sudan, you are the petitioner and he is the beneficiary?

The beneficiary has to submit their own DS-160. The petitioner cannot do that. That is the actual application for the visa. Everything with passport photos, etc. - that's all done by your fiance. Your fiance will bring the police certificate with him to the embassy for interview.

You can e-mail copies of W-2's. Getting the I-134 with a wet signature might be tricky though.

The only thing that YOU as the petitioner completes is the I-134. The rest of the forms are the responsibility of the beneficiary!!!