Japan Police Certificate

[cmeeks 5]

NVC just received our case from USCIS. My spouse is currently in the US on a 90-day tourist visa, and we forgot to get her police certificate before coming. I understand we need this to submit our documents to NVC, and it takes 2-3 months from the embassy here, but only a week or two in Japan. So, we plan to wait until she returns to Japan to get it, which will delay our NVC review by about a month. Is this correct? Can we proceed without the police certificate, or is there any way to get it faster while in the US?

Edited 13 hours ago by cmeeks
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[SalishSea 17,970]

3 hours ago, cmeeks said:

NVC just received our case from USCIS. My spouse is currently in the US on a 90-day tourist visa, and we forgot to get her police certificate before coming. I understand we need this to submit our documents to NVC, and it takes 2-3 months from the embassy here, but only a week or two in Japan. So, we plan to wait until she returns to Japan to get it, which will delay our NVC review by about a month. Is this correct? Can we proceed without the police certificate, or is there any way to get it faster while in the US?

It's not clear what you are trying to do here.  Is she adjusting status from the tourist visa?

[pushbrk 12,994]

11 hours ago, cmeeks said:

NVC just received our case from USCIS. My spouse is currently in the US on a 90-day tourist visa, and we forgot to get her police certificate before coming. I understand we need this to submit our documents to NVC, and it takes 2-3 months from the embassy here, but only a week or two in Japan. So, we plan to wait until she returns to Japan to get it, which will delay our NVC review by about a month. Is this correct? Can we proceed without the police certificate, or is there any way to get it faster while in the US?

Your options are here.  https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/Visa-Reciprocity-and-Civil-Documents-by-Country/Japan.html NVC is not concerned with your failure to prepare.

[kaythepix 0]

Honestly it would be faster to go back to Japan and get it done there. In Kanagawa prefecture the police certificate takes a week. Husband just picked up his on Friday and that was our last step to upload so now we are waiting for DQ

 

If you were trying to adjust while on ESTA/ a visit, that would cause some raised eyebrows anyways which would be a risk. Especially bringing it for a 90-day visa would probably set off alarm bells