Drug test and green card (Sweden)

[Crazy Cat 41,985]

3 minutes ago, Amwse97 said:

The words you used is not in Swedish btw.

Are you standing by the statement "in the Swedish law there is no such thing as arresting someone."?

[NikLR 13,228]

You were detained by police.  You could consider it arrested but I wouldn't unless you were fingerprinted.  

Looks like you can be arrested in Sweden: https://variety.com/2018/music/news/g-eazy-arrested-stockholm-sweden-1202797648/

 

Beyond that you're making a mountain out of a molehill since you were detained and released and tested negative to the drug test.  US employers drug test before hiring, so since it was negative it wasn't a big issue.  If asked you can say you were detained pending a drug test due to drugs being found in the car but tested negative.  It would be nice if the particular police department had a record of this of course. 

 

 

[Amwse97 0]

8 minutes ago, missileman said:

Are you standing by the statement "in the Swedish law there is no such thing as arresting someone."?

I'm saying it's not the same as in the US. There is something similiar yes and that is "Gripande". But the Police can never handout inofrmation about "gripanden" to other authorities if the pirmary investigation was closed.

[Amwse97 0]

11 minutes ago, NikLR said:

You were detained by police.  You could consider it arrested but I wouldn't unless you were fingerprinted.  

Looks like you can be arrested in Sweden: https://variety.com/2018/music/news/g-eazy-arrested-stockholm-sweden-1202797648/

 

Beyond that you're making a mountain out of a molehill since you were detained and released and tested negative to the drug test.  US employers drug test before hiring, so since it was negative it wasn't a big issue.  If asked you can say you were detained pending a drug test due to drugs being found in the car but tested negative.  It would be nice if the particular police department had a record of this of course. 

 

 

That is correct. I wasn't even fingerprinted. I still have the letter that i got from them so i can save it and take it with me. 

[NikLR 13,228]

The embassy will be aware of any differences and on the DS-260 you explain what happened. 

[Georgia16 2,858]

26 minutes ago, Amwse97 said:

The words you used is not in Swedish btw.

No Sherlock! I'm Danish! 

 

But drop your stuff. 

 

It is the same arrested in US, Sweden, DK, and whatever country! You are just playing with words here.

[Amwse97 0]

13 minutes ago, Georgia16 said:

No Sherlock! I'm Danish! 

 

But drop your stuff. 

 

It is the same arrested in US, Sweden, DK, and whatever country! You are just playing with words here.

Alright, fair enough. So it's better to include it in my application, that i've been arrested?

[Georgia16 2,858]

2 minutes ago, Amwse97 said:

Alright, fair enough. So it's better to include it in my application, that i've been arrested?

I don't know what is in your records and what is not. You have to figure that out. Contact the local police department and talk to them (yes you can do that) and see what they give you. 

 

I do not sound like you were arrested but like I said I was not there so I don't know but the best you can do is to go to them and find out before you answer the question so you get it correct. 

[jan22 3,056]

I don't known if you were arrested or not -- but you likely do, whether it is specifically called that or not.  It does not always require fingerprinting to be an arrest.  The simplest definition is the seizure of someone by legal authority to take them into custody or using legal aurhority to deprive a person of freedom of movement.

 

What I do know is that many arrests do not appear in a police certificate because they were not of a nature of crime that police in that country report, they were expunged, or a variety of other reasons.  That does not mean the person can say "no" to the question of ever having been arrested.  If an arrest happened, you have to say "yes".  The last thing you want is for any US official to find out that you were once arrested and you concealed it. That will cause more serious probIems than just having to explain upfront what happened.

[bakphx1 789]

I wouldn’t include this if it’s not applicable. Especially a drug charge.  If the police report won’t mention it, I wouldn’t report a non arrest as an arrest for drugs.  The OP is right not to report a non-arrest as an arrest.  Any contact with police shouldn’t be reported as an arrest just in case. 

 

It probably is is worth finding a legally trained professional to pose the question to.  This is more than something that should be asked to people in another country with no legal training.  

 

The question specifically asks for arrests.  In the US if you are arrested, you are formally informed of the arrest and the officer must read you your Miranda rights, which I doubt exist abroad.  You are then taken for processing and held for a disposition by a judge (bail/OR/fine).

 

You can be detained for questioning in an investigation against your will.   You don’t have to be charged with a crime.  

 

Whether your our laws are similar is the question.  If they only called it an investigation, that’s what it is.  An arrest must come with formal charges that a judge/DA must determine have merit.

 

 

Edited December 23, 2018 by bakphx1

[TBoneTX 45,654]

Listen to jan22 and do what he says, for your best benefit.

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