Police Certificates

[Mags 112]

Ha - Dan went to his local police station and told them what he needed. They gave him the wrong form to fill out - sooo about 2 weeks later he got a reply that what they requested was not what he was wanting and to go back and request form (don't remember what it was). Finally, they got it off to Scotland Yard to get the right thing. Now we're just waiting on it. That was about a week and a half ago. Guess that makes us nearly 3 weeks in the wait, but 2 could have been avoided! Oh well - no big deal - don't even have our NOA2 yet, just wanted to get a jump on things.

Something else to remember is that the 40 day countdown starts from the date on the receipt they will send you. In all likelihood if you haven't got that yet your 40 days haven't even started yet. It tends to take them about 3 weeks to get a receipt to you.

[Dan&Tiffany 0]

Ha - Dan went to his local police station and told them what he needed. They gave him the wrong form to fill out - sooo about 2 weeks later he got a reply that what they requested was not what he was wanting and to go back and request form (don't remember what it was). Finally, they got it off to Scotland Yard to get the right thing. Now we're just waiting on it. That was about a week and a half ago. Guess that makes us nearly 3 weeks in the wait, but 2 could have been avoided! Oh well - no big deal - don't even have our NOA2 yet, just wanted to get a jump on things.

Something else to remember is that the 40 day countdown starts from the date on the receipt they will send you. In all likelihood if you haven't got that yet your 40 days haven't even started yet. It tends to take them about 3 weeks to get a receipt to you.

Well he said he had gotten something in the mail that they had received the request at Scotland Yard. I'm assuming this is the receipt? Bless him - so descriptive - no idea what it said or looked like.

[Mags 112]

Ha - Dan went to his local police station and told them what he needed. They gave him the wrong form to fill out - sooo about 2 weeks later he got a reply that what they requested was not what he was wanting and to go back and request form (don't remember what it was). Finally, they got it off to Scotland Yard to get the right thing. Now we're just waiting on it. That was about a week and a half ago. Guess that makes us nearly 3 weeks in the wait, but 2 could have been avoided! Oh well - no big deal - don't even have our NOA2 yet, just wanted to get a jump on things.

Something else to remember is that the 40 day countdown starts from the date on the receipt they will send you. In all likelihood if you haven't got that yet your 40 days haven't even started yet. It tends to take them about 3 weeks to get a receipt to you.

Well he said he had gotten something in the mail that they had received the request at Scotland Yard. I'm assuming this is the receipt? Bless him - so descriptive - no idea what it said or looked like.

Yup, that's it! It'll have a date on it somewhere, that's the date you start counting from.

[Dan&Tiffany 0]

If he hasn't lost it yet - I'll have to get that date, then!! Thanks for the info.

[RosemarieL 0]

I found this link to a request for a police certificate in the UK:-

http://www.met.police.uk/dataprotection/forms/3019b.pdf

[TracyTN 237]

^^ Yup. That's the one on the London embassy's site.

[craigandkym 0]

I just found out today that Craig never got a response. Nothing. He got the receipt from the police where he made the request and that's it. He made the request almost a full month ago. He's going to make some calls tomorrow, couldn't today as it was a bank holiday.

This is frustrating. He's not heard one single word...nothing. I really hope it's not lost and we aren't starting all over again from scratch

~Kim

[Mags 112]

I just found out today that Craig never got a response. Nothing. He got the receipt from the police where he made the request and that's it. He made the request almost a full month ago. He's going to make some calls tomorrow, couldn't today as it was a bank holiday.

This is frustrating. He's not heard one single word...nothing. I really hope it's not lost and we aren't starting all over again from scratch

~Kim

My police certificate got lost in the post. When I counted up the days from my receipt, it was something like 45 days. So I phoned up the number they give you and the nice lady on the other end of the phone sent me out another one straight away.

First one never did turn up.

Edited May 8, 2007 by mags

[craigandkym 0]

That's comforting. Yeah he'd been trying all day today and apparantly since we haven't waited a full 40 days all he can do is wait. In the end I'm glad you finally got yours. I hope it's that speedy for us. We're on like day 30 so it's not that much longer to wait to figure out where it is!!

~Kym

[TracyUK 0]

I've just sent off for mine, as I was told about it lasting a year.

I am hoping to have everything here and ready for US embassy asking for it!!

[Sienna 0]

How do you go about getting your Police Certificate? Do you just go to the local station and request it? My fiance leaves here (Alabama) to go back to Ireland (Belfast) on Tuesday and he's going to go ahead and get the ball rolling to get his. I'd hate for them to give him the wrong form! We didn't even KNOW about a Police Certificate until a couple of days ago when someone mentioned it to us, so any advice about how to get one would be appreciated!

Also, he has only had one "run-in" with the law and that was last year. He was arrested for a mail-fraude type of offense (an Ebay deal gone bad), but they only questioned him and then charges were dropped. He was home within two hours and the police said it wouldn't be on his criminal record. If it IS on his Police Certificate tho, is this something we should be concerned about since he WAS actually arrested although charges were dropped????

Thanks for any info!

[TracyTN 237]

This link is on London embassy's site:

http://www.met.police.uk/dataprotection/forms.htm#b

You want form #3019B.

[Sienna 0]

This link is on London embassy's site:

http://www.met.police.uk/dataprotection/forms.htm#b

You want form #3019B.

Got it! Thanks Tracy!

[craigandkym 0]

I'm confused, some of you are mentioning getting police certificates for both of you. Do I (the USC) need one as well? Why would I get mine from the UK...that doesn't make sense. Sorry to ask a lame question, I figured my own country would just do my background check.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Ta,

Kim

[no name 1]

Do I (the USC) need one as well?

Arwensun is doing a CR-1 - different kettle of fish...

Edited May 11, 2007 by devilette