Northern Ireland Police certificate - anyone had a similar experience?

[indigogirl1976 0]

Hi...I was just wondering if anyone else is having the same trouble as me. I applied for my police certificate on august 23rd. I got a letter on October 9th to say that the Police Service of Northern Ireland had no record of any prosecution/ conviction history and that if I had applied for a prosection/conviction history on the national computer that scotland yard will be in contact with me. I have had no letter from scotland yard yet and we are nearly in November!!! Has this happened to anyone else? I thought that 40 days was the maximum time you had to wait??? I'm worried as I have packet 3 but can't apply for my interview at the Embassy in London until I get the police certificate!

[Muuuuah 0]

Sounds like you everything you need. You will not get anything from Scotland Yard if you dont have any convictions. So you can send your info off to the embassy as you seem like you do not need to wait for anything else

[English Muffin 59]

Sounds like you everything you need. You will not get anything from Scotland Yard if you dont have any convictions. So you can send your info off to the embassy as you seem like you do not need to wait for anything else

I don't have any convictions and I got a letter from Scotland Yard confirming that. I got it 37 days after requesting it.

Gillian

[indigogirl1976 0]

Sounds like you everything you need. You will not get anything from Scotland Yard if you dont have any convictions. So you can send your info off to the embassy as you seem like you do not need to wait for anything else

I don't have any convictions and I got a letter from Scotland Yard confirming that. I got it 37 days after requesting it.

Gillian

Gillian,

Did you apply directly to Scotland Yard or did you apply through your local police station?

indigogirl1976

[rebeccajo 14]

My husband used the same type of report you have when he interviewed two years ago. So did several others from NI who processed at that time.

To my knowledge, nothing has changed since.

[English Muffin 59]

Sounds like you everything you need. You will not get anything from Scotland Yard if you dont have any convictions. So you can send your info off to the embassy as you seem like you do not need to wait for anything else

I don't have any convictions and I got a letter from Scotland Yard confirming that. I got it 37 days after requesting it.

Gillian

Gillian,

Did you apply directly to Scotland Yard or did you apply through your local police station?

indigogirl1976

I applied at my local police station - which is not in NI I hasten to add. The reply came from Scotland Yard. Things could be different for NI but I really have no knowledge about that, sorry.

Gillian

[VisaJourneyLady 33]

So just in case the above is not clear, the police cert is not really a cert at all, but a letter exactly as you've described. Simply stating that you don't have any records on the police computer.

What it sounds like to me is that the letter you have only covers NI. That is why it states that if you needed a cert from Scotland Yard from the National Computer, covering the rest of the UK, you should have applied for that, and it will follow if you have. If you've ever lived in England, Scotland or Wales you'll need that. Otherwise you've got all you need.

Edited October 29, 2007 by Poiteen