Additional Documents needed

[RIchard83 1]

Hi all - I had my interview at the embassy in London on 10th June 2024. At the interview they stated I needed an additional police certificate for somewhere I lived before I was 18. I was born in Ireland and lived there for 4 years. I still only have an Irish passport but live in the UK so they said I needed the certificate as I was an Irish national. I got this but it took a few weeks to get it and sent it down with my passport as they requested by courier last week. The tracking shows they received this on friday 26th July. Since then, no updates other than the DS260 tracking still says refused but also shows it was last updated on 26th July.

 

Any ideas on processing times for additional documents being processed as I can't find anything. I'm just a bit concerned that it still says refused with an updated date of last friday.

 

Thanks 

[Wolle 68]

I have had the same with the Canadian Police report. I lived there for 2 years in my live. 
This time it only was taking about 3 weeks…..but I remember for the first greencard processing it took forever. Believe it was taking around 10 weeks? 

So this time I started early…..still waiting to be approved 😮‍💨🙇🏻🤷🏻‍♂️

[Anthony13 0]

Hi Richard, how long did the embassy end up taking to process the additional document? What did the rest of the process entail after you sent the document? My fiancé and I are in a similar situation currently. Thank you!

[RIchard83 1]

Hi Anthony. Everything got done reasonably quickly in the end. I didn’t hear anything at all other than a couple of status changes and then all approved. Then I got the email/contact to arrange collecting the passport. I can’t exactly remember timescales but it was done by the end of august. 
 

I then had to pay an USCIS immigration fee of $235 and then arrange entry to the US by the date in my visa which for me was a date in November. 
 

hope that helps. 
 

richard 

[Anthony13 0]

Thank you, Richard. One additional question. We also had to obtain a police certificate from Ireland. That was also the additional document we needed to send to the embassy. We sent a copy of the police certificate since the garda emailed us the certificate. Did you happen to do the same? I am little nervous that they may request the original copy of the certificate, but hopeful that the copy will be sufficient. Thanks again for the insight! 

[RIchard83 1]

No problem at all. 
 

I was the same where the Garda emailed me the certificate. I just printed that off and sent it down to the embassy and it was fine for me. 
 

I did think the same as you though and was hoping the print off would be ok and it was thankfully. 

[Anthony13 0]

So glad to hear that!! Thank you, Richard! Best of luck to you!!