NVC/(Stockholm embassy?) demanding police certificate from ALL places I have lived?

[fiskefillet 1]

hi everyone

after submitting everything for the DS-260, I was asked to submit a police certificate from the UK where I studied and lived for right under 6 months. Reading the VISA/NVC instructions it says to provide police certificates from somewhere you lived for at least 12 months and not 6, so I should not need to provide it for the UK at all as far as I understand. 

However, why does the NVC then ask this of me? Any chance the Stockholm embassy has other requirements than the standard guidelines I have attached below?

what do you guys think? anyone with stockholm embassy experiences? This is a bit confusing to me


thanks in advance

[Crazy Cat 42,626]

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/Supplements/Supplements_by_Post/STK_Stockholm.html#pre_interview_checklist

 

[fiskefillet 1]

Ok. So I need one from everywhere?

Why do they have their own requirements?  I follow the overall guidelines for a year which tell me I dont need one from my time in the UK, and have everything ready and think I can submit but now I have to order and pay for a UK police certificate..

[Crazy Cat 42,626]

1 minute ago, hwbertel said:

Ok. So I need one from everywhere?

Why do they have their own requirements?  I follow the overall guidelines for a year which tell me I dont need one from my time in the UK, and have everything ready and think I can submit but now I have to order and pay for a UK police certificate..

You might try emailing your embassy/consulate for clarification...

 

.......sometimes embassies do have specific requirements.  For example, I found this on the UK (US embassy) site for fiance visas:

 

"Required for all countries where you have lived for more than 6 months since the age of 16 and any country where you have been arrested, even if you were not resident there.  U.S. police certificates are not required.  Police certificates from certain countries are unavailable or are obtained directly by this office.  Fingerprints are required for certain countries. A list of UK police stations who can provide fingerprinting services is available from the Embassy website, here. (PDF – 337kb) Foreign police certificates are valid indefinitely, unless you have returned to reside in that country or has been arrested since the issuance of the certificate;"

 

[Schalcon 44]

NVC also asked me PCC from another foreign country I studied for 3 months. It was generated automatic by the system. We called nvc and rep said that we are good to go without it, we just need to write explanation letter with my wet signature. I only submitted PCC from my home country. We've received CC recently.

Edited April 22, 2019 by Schalcon

[fiskefillet 1]

Yes, It is just not a thing you consider to check specific embassy requirements when you follow the genral guidelines and there is already so much you need to prepare. But yeah maybe best to just write the stockholm embassy.

 

39 minutes ago, Schalcon said:

NVC also asked me PCC from another foreign country I studied for 3 months. It was generated automatic by the system. We called nvc and rep said that we are good to go without it, we just need to write explanation letter with my wet signature. I only submitted PCC from my home country. We've received CC recently.

Thanks for your response. Did you just straight up call the NVC then, not your embassy in lithuania or where it was?

[pushbrk 13,207]

1 hour ago, hwbertel said:

Ok. So I need one from everywhere?

Why do they have their own requirements?  I follow the overall guidelines for a year which tell me I dont need one from my time in the UK, and have everything ready and think I can submit but now I have to order and pay for a UK police certificate..

 

I don't think you are reading carefully enough.  Read both the statement and criteria, then apply the criteria.  Unless you currently live in the UK, the 12 month standard applies.  If you aren't interpreting it that way, keep reading and thinking until you do.

 

Since you lived in the UK LESS than six months, it doesn't appear you even READ the criteria in the table below.  "using below criteria:" is not to be ignored.

Edited April 22, 2019 by pushbrk

[pushbrk 13,207]

55 minutes ago, Schalcon said:

NVC also asked me PCC from another foreign country I studied for 3 months. It was generated automatic by the system. We called nvc and rep said that we are good to go without it, we just need to write explanation letter with my wet signature. I only submitted PCC from my home country. We've received CC recently.

The OP is not suffering from an NVC mistake.  He is suffering from incomplete reading of the instructions.  There is no need to call NVC, or contact the Consulate/Embassy.  Just completely read the instructions including the criteria in the table below.

 

Same for every other responder giving the wrong advice.

Edited April 22, 2019 by pushbrk

[fiskefillet 1]

43 minutes ago, pushbrk said:

I don't think you are reading carefully enough.  Read both the statement and criteria, then apply the criteria.  Unless you currently live in the UK, the 12 month standard applies.  If you aren't interpreting it that way, keep reading and thinking until you do.

 

Since you lived in the UK LESS than six months, it doesn't appear you even READ the criteria in the table below.  "using below criteria:" is not to be ignored.

But I have read, understood and applied the CEAC/NVC criteria on police certificates. Thats what I am writing that I lived there for less than 6 months in 2007 and therefore havent lived there for more than 12 months, so I shouldnt provide a police certificate... 

But, apparently Stockholm criteria are different and I have to follow that? And need a police certificate for ALL the places I have lived? 




 

[pushbrk 13,207]

2 hours ago, hwbertel said:

But I have read, understood and applied the CEAC/NVC criteria on police certificates. Thats what I am writing that I lived there for less than 6 months in 2007 and therefore havent lived there for more than 12 months, so I shouldnt provide a police certificate... 

But, apparently Stockholm criteria are different and I have to follow that? And need a police certificate for ALL the places I have lived? 




 

Apply the NVC criteria first.  If you were there less than six months, it doesn't count.

Edited April 23, 2019 by pushbrk

[Juniper 62]

7 hours ago, pushbrk said:

The OP is not suffering from an NVC mistake.  He is suffering from incomplete reading of the instructions.  There is no need to call NVC, or contact the Consulate/Embassy.  Just completely read the instructions including the criteria in the table below.

 

Same for every other responder giving the wrong advice.

 

3 hours ago, pushbrk said:

Apply the NVC criteria first.  If you were there less than six months, it doesn't count.

The other responders gave advice about specific embassies.  Quoted responder disregards that advice.  The job of NVC is to gather your documents ahead of time and review for completeness for your SPECIFIC Embassy interview which is where the visa application is adjudicated.  

 

Every document that your specific Embassy would want to see goes to NVC first.  If NVC is asking for something that does not line up with your specific Embassy document requests, then as other responders said ... try to get clarification from your specific Embassy on what NVC really needs from you.

 

I have first hand knowledge of being asked by NVC for something that was specific to the Embassy interview location document requirements. 

Edited April 23, 2019 by Juniper

[pushbrk 13,207]

3 hours ago, Juniper said:

 

I have first hand knowledge of being asked by NVC for something that was specific to the Embassy interview location document requirements. 

Following your advice won't hurt.  Criticizing others with extensive in context knowledge, is not "helpful".

[fiskefillet 1]

I have mailed the Stockholm embassy and asked about police certificate requirements and they have replied with the link of general instructions. 

I assume I can now just attach a letter to the NV/CEAC and say I lived in the Uk for less than a year and should not document a police certificate?

Edited April 23, 2019 by hwbertel

[fiskefillet 1]

In case people in the future have similar issues:

[NikLR 13,232]

2 hours ago, hwbertel said:

I have mailed the Stockholm embassy and asked about police certificate requirements and they have replied with the link of general instructions. 

I assume I can now just attach a letter to the NV/CEAC and say I lived in the Uk for less than a year and should not document a police certificate?

Yes input the letter stating you lived there less than 6 months and call it a day.  

NVC auto generates this stuff now and this isnt the first time it's messed people up.