US Police Certificate Required?

[Wagoneer 4]

Hi y’all, we’ve been stressing over whether or not a United States police certificate is required me (the foreign beneficiary).
 

I have studied and lived in the US for well over six months since I was 16.  I thought I had to write a physical mail to the FBI with my ink-rolled-fingerprints and what not.  But I came across this on a immigration website saying I won’t have to.   
 

can anyone advice me on this issue? And if the website is not correct and I’ll indeed have to contact the FBI, does anyone have any experience with that processes? 

 

Thanks

 

feb-23 I-129f filer btw 

[JeanneAdil 6,410]

no

 

USCIS will do this

[MalloryCat 177]

the US will run background checks for that

 

From the state.gov website

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/the-immigrant-visa-process/step-5-collect-financial-evidence-and-other-supporting-documents/step-7-collect-civil-documents.html

 

If you are 16 years of age or older, you must obtain a photocopy of a police certificate from all countries you have lived in using below criteria:

If you ...	AND you...	THEN submit a police certificate from...
Are 16 years old or older	Lived in your country of nationality for more than 6 months at any time in your life	Your country of nationality
Are 16 years old or older	Have lived in your country of current residence (if different from nationality) for more than 6 months	Your country of current residence
Have ever lived in another country for 12 months or more	Were 16 years or older at the time you lived there	The country where you used to live.
Were arrested for any reason, regardless of how long you lived in that city or country, and no matter what age you were		The city and/or country where you were arrested.

 

Note: Present and former residents of the United States do NOT need to submit any U.S. police certificates.

 

Important: Police certificates expire after two years, unless the certificate was issued from your country of previous residence and you have not returned there since the police certificate was issued.

[Wagoneer 4]

Thank you all for the answers!  Gosh that’s a relief.