K1 Visa US Embassy Tokyo request for more info on overstay from Japanese visa.

[MrJLLC 0]

TLDR: Embassy wants more info on overstay from ten years ago and we have very little documentation. Asking for advice please.

 

Hello all. My fiancee will be attending her K1 Visa interview in two weeks in Tokyo, Japan. Today she received an email from the US Embassy. In it they asked the following:

 

Thank you for sending us your requested documents by mail; however, we need to ask for some additional documents for your interview.

Please see below and submit the documents along with other required documents in the instructions.
 

• Original birth certificate for your child
• Any original official documents regarding your overstay/detention in Japan
• A photocopy of the original documents above, along with the translation if the documents are not in English
   

If you cannot collect the documents before your interview, please explain it on your interview day.

 

Sincerely,

Immigrant Visa Unit

U.S. Embassy, Tokyo

 

 

The background behind this can be read in detail in previous thread I made on Visa Journey here.

 

We immediately called the visa services support phone number found on the usvisascheduling website. They reached out to the embassy for clarification and we received the following response:

 

 

Thank you for your inquiry.

Please submit any official documents regarding your overstay in Japan if any.

If you do not have one, please contact immigration office if they have any.

 

Thank you for your cooperation.

 

Sincerely,

 

Consular Communication Unit

U.S. Embassy Tokyo/ky

 

To be blunt, my fiancee, received / was able to keep, very little documentation directly tied to the overstay and detention. She does have her Japanese police certificate(sealed),  the certificate of eligibility showing her being allowed back into Japan after the one year self deportation and her old passport showing her original deportation in 2014 and that she shouldered the expenses of self deportation. That is all. 

 

We contacted her immigration lawyer who advised that it is very unlikely that Japanese immigration will release any of that documentation as they are used for investigation purposes. Nevertheless we will be calling the local immigration office in the municipality where she was detained ten years ago in the morning to make a request.

 

We are in a bit of a panic and could use some advice please. Are we overlooking anything? Is there anything else we can do?

 

Thank you all in advance for your thoughts and advice.

 

 

 

 

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23 hours ago, MrJLLC said:

TLDR: Embassy wants more info on overstay from ten years ago and we have very little documentation. Asking for advice please.

 

Hello all. My fiancee will be attending her K1 Visa interview in two weeks in Tokyo, Japan. Today she received an email from the US Embassy. In it they asked the following:

 

Thank you for sending us your requested documents by mail; however, we need to ask for some additional documents for your interview.

Please see below and submit the documents along with other required documents in the instructions.
 

• Original birth certificate for your child
• Any original official documents regarding your overstay/detention in Japan
• A photocopy of the original documents above, along with the translation if the documents are not in English
   

 

If you cannot collect the documents before your interview, please explain it on your interview day.

 

Sincerely,

Immigrant Visa Unit

U.S. Embassy, Tokyo

 

 

The background behind this can be read in detail in previous thread I made on Visa Journey here.

 

We immediately called the visa services support phone number found on the usvisascheduling website. They reached out to the embassy for clarification and we received the following response:

 

 

Thank you for your inquiry.

Please submit any official documents regarding your overstay in Japan if any.

If you do not have one, please contact immigration office if they have any.

 

Thank you for your cooperation.

 

Sincerely,

 

Consular Communication Unit

U.S. Embassy Tokyo/ky

 

To be blunt, my fiancee, received / was able to keep, very little documentation directly tied to the overstay and detention. She does have her Japanese police certificate(sealed),  the certificate of eligibility showing her being allowed back into Japan after the one year self deportation and her old passport showing her original deportation in 2014 and that she shouldered the expenses of self deportation. That is all. 

 

We contacted her immigration lawyer who advised that it is very unlikely that Japanese immigration will release any of that documentation as they are used for investigation purposes. Nevertheless we will be calling the local immigration office in the municipality where she was detained ten years ago in the morning to make a request.

 

We are in a bit of a panic and could use some advice please. Are we overlooking anything? Is there anything else we can do?

 

Thank you all in advance for your thoughts and advice.

 

 

 

 

Sounds like you need to schedule the interview in Manila instead, I didn't read you background information. My understanding in Japan it is common for police to ask for visa papers and if you overstay you get arrested.