question about police reports from Bahrain

[Nan&Steve 0]

We've hit a bump in the road in our visa process. She'll have packet 3 in hand tomorrow, which is great, but I've read that we'll need police reports from everywhere she's lived for over 6 months. This is where we are going to have a problem. I met Nan while I was deployed in Bahrain, she was working in a salon there. However, she stayed in Bahrain for about a year using multiple visitor visas, not a work visa. The Bahraini police will only issue a Certificate of Good Conduct to someone who has or had a residency permit, which can not be obtained with a visitor's visa.

She has never been in any kind of legal trouble in either Bahrain or Thailand, but how do we prove she had no problems in Bahrain without this Cert of Good Conduct? She has a friend who works for the Thai embassy in Bahrain, would the US Consulate accept a letter from the Thai Embassy in Bahrain stating that as far as they know she never had any problems in Bahrain? Does anybody have any ideas on how to address this problem?

Thanks,

Steve

Edited June 17, 2007 by Nan&Steve

[Thai Pham 0]

police report is for the interview

[vanee 13]

The Bahraini police will only issue a Certificate of Good Conduct to someone who has or had a residency permit, which can not be obtained with a visitor's visa.

Perhaps there's another certificate besides the "Certificate of Good Conduct"? In Canada, it's called a police certificate, and in Israel (where I've applied to get one), it's called a "Confirmation of Non-Criminal Records / Undecided Cases." Maybe you just need different terminology.

Good luck!