Police Certificate

[mmarlo 1]

My fiancee just received her certificate of good conduct from the police, but the police official preparing the certificate made an error in misspelling her surname. Otherwise, all of the information is correct, including the photocopy of her national ID, her ID number, etc., which provides plenty of identifying information.

Has anyone else had an experience like this? Do you have a sense whether this will be a problem at the time of the interview? I just emailed the Embassy to see if this will be a problem, but they haven't been as helpful as I would have liked over email, and I can't get through to them over the phone.

My understanding is that it is illegal in Kenya to apply for more than one police certificate, so it appears to be impossible to replace the certificate, but maybe there are other options like getting some kind of affidavit from the police.

[DA BOMB 1]

My fiancee just received her certificate of good conduct from the police, but the police official preparing the certificate made an error in misspelling her surname. Otherwise, all of the information is correct, including the photocopy of her national ID, her ID number, etc., which provides plenty of identifying information.

Has anyone else had an experience like this? Do you have a sense whether this will be a problem at the time of the interview? I just emailed the Embassy to see if this will be a problem, but they haven't been as helpful as I would have liked over email, and I can't get through to them over the phone.

My understanding is that it is illegal in Kenya to apply for more than one police certificate, so it appears to be impossible to replace the certificate, but maybe there are other options like getting some kind of affidavit from the police.

My fiance's police certificate came back clean even though he has a past conviction because they put last name first. Everything other piece of identifying information was on the certificate. We had to call the local agency and they sorted it out.

[mmarlo 1]

My fiancee just received her certificate of good conduct from the police, but the police official preparing the certificate made an error in misspelling her surname. Otherwise, all of the information is correct, including the photocopy of her national ID, her ID number, etc., which provides plenty of identifying information.

Has anyone else had an experience like this? Do you have a sense whether this will be a problem at the time of the interview? I just emailed the Embassy to see if this will be a problem, but they haven't been as helpful as I would have liked over email, and I can't get through to them over the phone.

My understanding is that it is illegal in Kenya to apply for more than one police certificate, so it appears to be impossible to replace the certificate, but maybe there are other options like getting some kind of affidavit from the police.

My fiance's police certificate came back clean even though he has a past conviction because they put last name first. Everything other piece of identifying information was on the certificate. We had to call the local agency and they sorted it out.

You had to call the local police agency or the consolate? Did they issue a new certificate or what?

[DA BOMB 1]

My fiancee just received her certificate of good conduct from the police, but the police official preparing the certificate made an error in misspelling her surname. Otherwise, all of the information is correct, including the photocopy of her national ID, her ID number, etc., which provides plenty of identifying information.

Has anyone else had an experience like this? Do you have a sense whether this will be a problem at the time of the interview? I just emailed the Embassy to see if this will be a problem, but they haven't been as helpful as I would have liked over email, and I can't get through to them over the phone.

My understanding is that it is illegal in Kenya to apply for more than one police certificate, so it appears to be impossible to replace the certificate, but maybe there are other options like getting some kind of affidavit from the police.

My fiance's police certificate came back clean even though he has a past conviction because they put last name first. Everything other piece of identifying information was on the certificate. We had to call the local agency and they sorted it out.

You had to call the local police agency or the consolate? Did they issue a new certificate or what?

Sorry - the local police station is where he applied for the original certificate. It came back wrong so he called the local police station again and they had a new one sent (too bad for us though lol)

[JenT 0]

My fiancee just received her certificate of good conduct from the police, but the police official preparing the certificate made an error in misspelling her surname. Otherwise, all of the information is correct, including the photocopy of her national ID, her ID number, etc., which provides plenty of identifying information.

Has anyone else had an experience like this? Do you have a sense whether this will be a problem at the time of the interview? I just emailed the Embassy to see if this will be a problem, but they haven't been as helpful as I would have liked over email, and I can't get through to them over the phone.

My understanding is that it is illegal in Kenya to apply for more than one police certificate, so it appears to be impossible to replace the certificate, but maybe there are other options like getting some kind of affidavit from the police.

Definitely have this corrected as best as you are able. Any discrepancies will cause confusion and may affect your approval.

[mmarlo 1]

Yeah, gotta get it fixed. From the Embassy:

March 6, 2007

Dear Mr. Marlo:

Thank you for your correspondence. Please ask the relevant authorities to correct the mistake.

Please ask the authority concerned to amend the certificate to read the correct names.

Sincerely,

Consular section

[mmarlo 1]

Sometimes you have to take the alternate route to get things to work out properly in Kenya. My fiancee went through the aunt of a friend of hers, who is an Inspector in the police department, and got the Certificate of Good Conduct fixed in a day.

One more small obstacle successfully navigated...

Next up, medical exam and missing vaccination record.

[almaty 19]

Sometimes you have to take the alternate route to get things to work out properly in Kenya. My fiancee went through the aunt of a friend of hers, who is an Inspector in the police department, and got the Certificate of Good Conduct fixed in a day.

One more small obstacle successfully navigated...

Next up, medical exam and missing vaccination record.

good luck to you both...one step down and you are getting closer