Foreign police certificate

[kavanna 0]

Hi!

 

I was wondering if anyone could help me. I studied in the UK and moved back to my home country last August after graduating. Before I left, I renewed my police certificate (because I naively thought that I would be able to get an interview for my K-1 visa last year... hah.) and it is dated about two weeks before I left the country. The certificate itself is less than 1 year old - will it still be okay to use even though it's dated two weeks before I left the UK?

 

If not, and I have to renew the document again, does anyone know if I can ask the ACRO folks in the UK to send my police certificate directly to be apostilled before they send it back to me in Finland? Just to spare myself an additional loop...

 

Thanks!

[payxibka 10,047]

1 minute ago, kavanna said:

Hi!

 

I was wondering if anyone could help me. I studied in the UK and moved back to my home country last August after graduating. Before I left, I renewed my police certificate (because I naively thought that I would be able to get an interview for my K-1 visa last year... hah.) and it is dated about two weeks before I left the country. The certificate itself is less than 1 year old - will it still be okay to use even though it's dated two weeks before I left the UK?

 

If not, and I have to renew the document again, does anyone know if I can ask the ACRO folks in the UK to send my police certificate directly to be apostilled before they send it back to me in Finland? Just to spare myself an additional loop...

 

Thanks!

For immigration purposes, nothing requires apostille.

[powerpuff 6,747]

1 minute ago, kavanna said:

Hi!

 

I was wondering if anyone could help me. I studied in the UK and moved back to my home country last August after graduating. Before I left, I renewed my police certificate (because I naively thought that I would be able to get an interview for my K-1 visa last year... hah.) and it is dated about two weeks before I left the country. The certificate itself is less than 1 year old - will it still be okay to use even though it's dated two weeks before I left the UK?

 

If not, and I have to renew the document again, does anyone know if I can ask the ACRO folks in the UK to send my police certificate directly to be apostilled before they send it back to me in Finland? Just to spare myself an additional loop...

 

Thanks!

As long as you don’t go back to the UK, it has an unlimited validity date. 

[kavanna 0]

1 minute ago, payxibka said:

For immigration purposes, nothing requires apostille.

Oh, really? I have gotten all my documents apostilled, lol.

 

Just now, powerpuff said:

As long as you don’t go back to the UK, it has an unlimited validity date. 

Even though it doesn't cover my entire residency since it's dated 2 weeks earlier than when I actually left the UK?

[payxibka 10,047]

2 minutes ago, kavanna said:

Oh, really? I have gotten all my documents apostilled, lol.

Not sure how you understood that requirement because apostille is not referenced in any instruction 

[kavanna 0]

14 minutes ago, payxibka said:

Not sure how you understood that requirement because apostille is not referenced in any instruction 

I don't know either. I was supposed to have my interview well over a year ago just when covid hit - I'm sure I had a better safe than sorry mentality. So the documents don't need an apostille stamp nor do they need to be notarised/legalised? Thank god, that will save me some time and money.

[payxibka 10,047]

3 minutes ago, kavanna said:

I don't know either. I was supposed to have my interview well over a year ago just when covid hit - I'm sure I had a better safe than sorry mentality. So the documents don't need an apostille stamp nor do they need to be notarised/legalised? Thank god, that will save me some time and money.

Nope.  A translation, maybe, depending on situation but thats it.