Police Clearance! Help!

[pdc29 3]

Good day! Interview date is tomorrow! 

 

I am not originally from Canada. I moved here when I was 17. I have my police clearance from Canada which I sent to NVC, and they never asked for my police clearance from the Philippines. The person we are working with said there is not a need for me to send my NBI clearance. After reading through VJ, I second guessed what they told me.  I requested for my NBI clearance during the NVC phase thinking they would ask for me to send it but they didn't. I have both police clearances now. My question is, at the time of interview, should I present it right away when they ask for all documentsor wait for the consular officer to ask to see it?

 

Thank you in advance to those who are going to reply. 

[larnar1309 101]

Congrats for your interview date!! I wish you all the luck in the world for tomorrow  you must be soooo excited!!

 

I'm also wondering about police clearance.

 

I am at the NVC stage where myself and my husband are ready to submit our AOS and IV packages. We are just waiting on the fees to clear - but I also still haven't received my Japanese police cert back yet. The Japanese cert can take up to 2 months and I managed to apply for it on June 13th so its been almost a month but if I don't need to I don't particularly want to wait an ADDITIONAL month before submitting our AOS and IV packets to the NVC... just seems like it will make the process so much longer especially since I will have no police record!! 

 

I don't want to get a checklist though and since I lived in Japan with my husband for 5 years a lot of our addresses on the ds-260 will be from Japan so I assume they will be expecting to receive it...

 

 

As for you... if they don't ask to see it I assume they wont need to see it but you should take it along in case they do ask. 

[pushbrk 12,898]

They won't issue the visa without the Japan police report.  If they receive it after the interview, it will go in a queue to be dealt with and you will wait for the visa as long as their queue for dealing with such things, actually takes.  It just goes with the territory.  What you want or don't want really has nothing to do with how the bureaucracy works.

[pdc29 3]

11 hours ago, larnar1309 said:

Congrats for your interview date!! I wish you all the luck in the world for tomorrow  you must be soooo excited!!

 

I'm also wondering about police clearance.

 

I am at the NVC stage where myself and my husband are ready to submit our AOS and IV packages. We are just waiting on the fees to clear - but I also still haven't received my Japanese police cert back yet. The Japanese cert can take up to 2 months and I managed to apply for it on June 13th so its been almost a month but if I don't need to I don't particularly want to wait an ADDITIONAL month before submitting our AOS and IV packets to the NVC... just seems like it will make the process so much longer especially since I will have no police record!! 

 

I don't want to get a checklist though and since I lived in Japan with my husband for 5 years a lot of our addresses on the ds-260 will be from Japan so I assume they will be expecting to receive it...

 

 

As for you... if they don't ask to see it I assume they wont need to see it but you should take it along in case they do ask. 

Thank you! 

 

I would think that you would need it during the NVC stage. I think it will be less of a stress for you if you submit it with your AOS, just to be sure you do not get a checklist requesting for police clearance.

 

I guess they did not ask for mine before because I was just over 16 when I moved to Canada. Anyways, during the interview, I ask if they would need the Polie Clearance from Philipines, and she said yes. She asked me on whether there are other countries I lived in aside from Canada and Philippines, and that was it. I gave them both my Canada and Philippines polic clearances. Good thing I did not listen to our consultant or else I would have nothing to submit today!

 

Goodluck on your journey! You're almost there!! 😊😊

 

 

[larnar1309 101]

11 minutes ago, pdc29 said:

Thank you! 

 

I would think that you would need it during the NVC stage. I think it will be less of a stress for you if you submit it with your AOS, just to be sure you do not get a checklist requesting for police clearance.

 

I guess they did not ask for mine before because I was just over 16 when I moved to Canada. Anyways, during the interview, I ask if they would need the Polie Clearance from Philipines, and she said yes. She asked me on whether there are other countries I lived in aside from Canada and Philippines, and that was it. I gave them both my Canada and Philippines polic clearances. Good thing I did not listen to our consultant or else I would have nothing to submit today!

 

Goodluck on your journey! You're almost there!! 😊😊

 

 

Great news ! Yes you are right - always better to be over prepared than under prepared - you proved that today too  

 

so so happy to hear it went well for you - yes I'm excited for the end of the journey soon too! 

[larnar1309 101]

11 hours ago, pushbrk said:

They won't issue the visa without the Japan police report.  If they receive it after the interview, it will go in a queue to be dealt with and you will wait for the visa as long as their queue for dealing with such things, actually takes.  It just goes with the territory.  What you want or don't want really has nothing to do with how the bureaucracy works.

Thank you! Yes it's just as I expected. Well my package to send shall be waiting on my desk until it's arrived for me to collect at the Japanese embassy then!