K-1 packet 3 items for Madrid?

[Greenorange 0]

Hi everyone!

My fiancé and I have already received our NOA2 and we can't be more excited! We are already getting all the documents we are going to need by reading other threads. However, I have a specific question for all of you who have received the Packet-3 in the last few months from the embassy of Madrid.

Do you need the police certificates from ALL countries you have ever lived for more than 6 months? Or just from those countries where I have lived more than a year? The difference is significant because in my case the number of countries would significantly increase or decrease depending on which I need to get.

Why I am asking this?

Because this is the info I get from the State Department and from people at VisaJourney:

POLICE CERTIFICATES (original): Every visa applicant 16 years or over is required to submit a police certificate from the country of the applicant's nationality and current residence if the applicant has resided for at least six months since attaining the age of sixteen. Police certificates are also required from all other countries where the applicant has resided for one year or longer. A police certificate must also be obtained from the police authorities of any place where the applicant has been arrested for any reason, regardless of how long he or she lived there. Police certificates must cover the entire period of the applicant’s residence in that specific country. The certificate from your current country of residence must be of recent date (not older than 6 months) when presented to the consular officer.

And this is the info that the Madrid Embassy has posted on their website:

Police certificate from all places you have lived since age 16. (Source: https://madrid.usembassy.gov/visas/immigrant/fiance.html)

So I am rather confused. Any of you could help me with this? If I needed to get ALL police certificates from ALL countries I have lived in it would be a long expensive process and I don't want to start without having more info.

Thank you so much! :)

[gray_cat 39]

Hi and welcome!

I'm also in the post-NOA2 stage, so we're pretty much in the same situation.

I believe you need police records from the countries where you have lived for over 6 months. In the Spanish version of the embassy's website it specifies:

• · Certificados de policía de todos los países donde ha vivido desde los 16 años por más de seis meses. Para información sobre el certificado de policía de España, por favor, consulte “Certificado de Policía de España".

[Greenorange 0]

Muchísimas gracias!

Bueno, pues me pondré con los dichosos certificados de policía ya!