1 Year Old Police Certificates

[enigma992 45]

Hi All,

 

The instructions from Montreal for my Green Card interview state the following:

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Polcie Certificates:

If you are older than 16 years of age: The original police certificate from your country of current
residence and countries of previous residence. If these three items are all true, you must bring a more recent
police certificate to the interview:
 He or she is older than 16 years;
 He or she obtained a police certificate and submitted it to NVC more than one year ago; and
 He or she still lives in the country that issued the police certificate.

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My interview is on November 22nd. My Canadian police certificate is still valid until mid December and I have only been living in Canada the past year. My UK and Ireland police certificates are now about 14 months old. I have returned to both countries to visit briefly (1-2 weeks) but have not resided there since they were issued. Do you think based on the above that I am safe from needing to get new ones? it is not straight forward to get the Irish one especially so I'm hoping it's not necessary. Anyone have experience with this?

[NikLR 13,227]

~~moved to IR1/CR1 process and procedures.  Topic is not Canadian Specific~~

[pushbrk 12,898]

On 10/24/2017 at 4:53 AM, enigma992 said:

Hi All,

 

The instructions from Montreal for my Green Card interview state the following:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Polcie Certificates:

If you are older than 16 years of age: The original police certificate from your country of current
residence and countries of previous residence. If these three items are all true, you must bring a more recent
police certificate to the interview:
 He or she is older than 16 years;
 He or she obtained a police certificate and submitted it to NVC more than one year ago; and
 He or she still lives in the country that issued the police certificate.

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My interview is on November 22nd. My Canadian police certificate is still valid until mid December and I have only been living in Canada the past year. My UK and Ireland police certificates are now about 14 months old. I have returned to both countries to visit briefly (1-2 weeks) but have not resided there since they were issued. Do you think based on the above that I am safe from needing to get new ones? it is not straight forward to get the Irish one especially so I'm hoping it's not necessary. Anyone have experience with this?

Yes.

[SusieQQQ 11,586]

On 10/24/2017 at 2:53 AM, enigma992 said:

Hi All,

 

The instructions from Montreal for my Green Card interview state the following:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Polcie Certificates:

If you are older than 16 years of age: The original police certificate from your country of current
residence and countries of previous residence. If these three items are all true, you must bring a more recent
police certificate to the interview:
 He or she is older than 16 years;
 He or she obtained a police certificate and submitted it to NVC more than one year ago; and
 He or she still lives in the country that issued the police certificate.

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My interview is on November 22nd. My Canadian police certificate is still valid until mid December and I have only been living in Canada the past year. My UK and Ireland police certificates are now about 14 months old. I have returned to both countries to visit briefly (1-2 weeks) but have not resided there since they were issued. Do you think based on the above that I am safe from needing to get new ones? it is not straight forward to get the Irish one especially so I'm hoping it's not necessary. Anyone have experience with this?

IMO you’d be taking a risk. The official instructions from DoS are “Important: Police certificates expire after one year, unless the certificate was issued from your country of previous residence and you have not returned there since the police certificate was issued.”.

https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/immigrate/immigrant-process/documents/Supporting_documents.html

 

It doesn’t say lived there again, just “have not returned there”. So you’d need decide if it would be better to play it safe and get new ones, or trying to argue your case and risk being placed on administrative processing to get new PCCs after the interview.

 

 

[mallafri76 1,012]

You’re probably gonna need a new Canadian police cert. It might be different from embassy to embassy but the US Embassy in Sweden don’t issue visas if the police cert is expiring in less than three months.

[NikLR 13,227]

2 hours ago, mallafri76 said:

You’re probably gonna need a new Canadian police cert. It might be different from embassy to embassy but the US Embassy in Sweden don’t issue visas if the police cert is expiring in less than three months.

Canadian police certificates don't actually expire.  They are valid for the time period the body needing them determines they are good.  So if Montreal says they accept them for 1 year, they're valid for 1 year.  If a school said they're good for 3 months, then they're good for 3 months unless something changes during that time (for instance you are convicted of a crime.)  

[Nitas_man 3,100]

Worst case is you will need a new Canadian one.  I believe you need to enter (the US) within a year of it being issued.

Vacation/visiting other countries does not meet the definition of residing there.

Edited October 29, 2017 by Nitas_man

[enigma992 45]

On 28/10/2017 at 10:28 PM, mallafri76 said:

You’re probably gonna need a new Canadian police cert. It might be different from embassy to embassy but the US Embassy in Sweden don’t issue visas if the police cert is expiring in less than three months.

Do you know this for a fact? Can you provide some further info. It could vary from embassy to embassy but I would be interested to see where you saw this or where this is listed.

 

The Montreal instructions say nothing of this:

 

"If you previously submitted a police certificate to NVC, it is more than one (1) year old, and you still live in that country, you must obtain and bring a more recent police certificate to your visa interview as the one you previously submitted will have expired."

[NikLR 13,227]

If your interview is before the 1 year mark you will not need a new Canadian police certificate unless you have moved within Canada in the last 6 months.