How many police reports (about former USSR)

[Laleh 2]

Well, it looks like we'll have to pay the price for being travel nuts. We're looking at a lot of police reports for my husband!

1. Tajikistan - he is a citizen of Tajikistan.

2. Czech Republic - this is where we live now.

3. Japan - he studied there for a year.

Now, this is where I have questions:

4. Uzbekistan - My husband was born in "Uzbekistan," but it was the USSR at the time. When the USSR broke up, he was already living in Tajikistan (moved to Tajikistan at 18) and never lived in Uzbekistan again. Does he need a separate police report for Uzbekistan, or would it be waived since Tajikistan and Uzbekistan were the same country at the time he was living there?

5. Russia - Again, he was there when it was still the USSR. Also, it was for his mandatory military service. Would he need a police report, since he was with the army for the whole time and we already have to submit his military records?

Another question. I just saw this on the "reciprocity by country" page for JAPAN:

Sealed Envelope: Japanese Police Certificates are issued in a sealed envelope. If the seal is broken, the certificate is considered invalid. Visa applicants should not open a sealed envelope containing a Police Certificate prior to submitting it to the U.S. Embassy/Consulate or the National Visa Center.

In the above case, how would we deal with the translation issue? Would they just give it to us in English? We would get it from the Japanese embassy or consulate in Czech Republic, would it be ok if the police report was in Czech? We will be having the interviews here in Czech Republic, but I'm not sure if the police reports also need to be sent to the US as well.

Edited June 23, 2016 by Laleh

[Laleh 2]

Anyone?

[Laleh 2]

We live in Czech Republic, and my husband has an appointment at the Japanese embassy tomorrow to get his police report. I saw on the reciprocity schedule that Japanese police reports come in a closed envelope. I'm just wondering, do we need to ask for two of them then? Since we need it to send to the NVC in the US and also to bring to the interview (at the US embassy in Prague), and we obviously can't make a copy. Or maybe they automatically give two copies? My husband talked to them. Apparently they will give the reports in English :-) Sorry if this is a stupid question.

[Laleh 2]

I emailed the US embassy here in Czech, and I'm just reporting what they said, in case anyone has the same issue and finds this post later:

Yes, he will need police reports from both Russia and Uzbekistan (as well as Tajikistan, of course).

Also, we called the Japanese embassy here, and they will give us the police report in English - apparently for free! The Russian embassy is charging about $50 for the police report.

The Tajik and Uzbek embassies are in Berlin. My husband will call them later today; hopefully we can do it all by post and he won't have to go there - but I suspect he will have to go.

[Ryan H 3,812]

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We live in Czech Republic, and my husband has an appointment at the Japanese embassy tomorrow to get his police report. I saw on the reciprocity schedule that Japanese police reports come in a closed envelope. I'm just wondering, do we need to ask for two of them then? Since we need it to send to the NVC in the US and also to bring to the interview (at the US embassy in Prague), and we obviously can't make a copy. Or maybe they automatically give two copies? My husband talked to them. Apparently they will give the reports in English :-) Sorry if this is a stupid question.

[Laleh 2]

Seems like a completely different issue to me (first post was mostly about USSR, no one would guess my current question from the subject line), but thanks! I told him to ask for two envelopes. I think they will give it automatically anyway.