US Immigration from Pakistan

Hi Guys,

I am Pakistani national living in Saudi Arabia. I have question regarding Police Certificate. As per the general guidelines i have to submit Police certificate for any country where i have stayed for more than 12 months. Based on that criteria I have to get certificate for Pakistan and Saudi Arabia which i have done. However after submitting IV application I saw two additional police certificates requests in required documents field. One for Kuwait and another for Qatar. Now the thing is I have visited Qatar twice in my life. Once for work and other time for vacations. My first trip was for 70 days in Jan 2010 and second trip was for 2 days in Dec 2014. As for Kuwait, I stayed there for work from Jan 2011 to March 2011 for 57 days. Clearly I don't fall into the criteria of getting police certificates from these two countries but NVC requested those anyway.

Kuwait

Now things get bit complicated when I checked the Kuwait document reciprocity. It says

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Registration Criteria: Available only to applicants residing in Kuwait. A police clearance certificate is required for U.S. immigrant visa applicants age 18 and over who are currently residing in Kuwait for 6 months or more. This is not available for former residents of Kuwait.

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Comments: U.S. Citizens and other individuals: Available only to those residing in Kuwait; age 18 and above must get the police clearance certificate if they resided in the country for 6 months or more.

I called the Kuwait embassy in Saudi Arabia and they don't have any information. Meanwhile , I am trying to contact Kuwait embassy in Pakistan but so far i couldn't.

My question is what are my options? Do I have to get it since it is in the list of required documents and if yes how? or just upload a paper saying that it is not available as per document reciprocity link.

Qatar

Since I live in Saudi Arabia and Saudi Arabia doesn't have diplomatic relations with Qatar, so my only options are to get it though

1. friend or relative,
2. Qatar embassy in Pakistan (for which i have to travel to Pakistan) or
3. through express mail.

Again, do I really have to get it when my total stay in that country is 70+2 days? Is it worth it to talk to NVC and explain the situation. Do they issue exemption in such cases?

Many Thanks

I have to give details of my previous addresses since the age of 16 on DS260. However, I have few questions about my stay in other countries

Here is my history of stay.

Jan 2007 to May 2014 I largely stayed with my parents. However, during this time I traveled for work and in late 2013 I got permanent job in a country (Saudi Arabia) where I am staying since then. Here is my work/stay history.

1. From 01-Jan-07 to 02-Jan-10 at family home let s call it A in Pakistan

2. From 02-Jan-10 to 30-March-10 (3 months) traveled to Qatar for work and stayed at company arranged hotel.

3. From 01-Apr-10 to 15-Jan-11 again at family home A

4. From 16-Jan-11 to 16-Mar-11 (59 days) traveled to Kuwait for work and stayed at company arranged hotel.

5. From 16-Mar-11 to 23-Jan-13 stayed at family home A

6. From 24-Jan-13 to 01-Apr-13 (67 days) traveled to Saudi Arabia for work and stayed at company arranged hotel.

7. From 02-Apr-13 to 18-May-13 stayed at family home A

8. From 19-May-13 to 07-Jul-13 (49 days) traveled to Saudi Arabia for work and stayed at company arranged hotel.

9. From 08-Jul-13 to 31-Aug-13 stayed at family home A

From 1 Sep 2013 till to date I am living in Saudi Arabia. I occasionally visit my family back home in Pakistan but hardly stayed more than a month. During this time my family changed two houses. Let s call them Home B & Home C.

10. From 1 Jun 2014 to 31 Dec 2019 my family stayed at home B. This is the same place where my marriage took place and I stayed with my wife as I mentioned in i130A. After the marriage I came back to Saudi Arabia. I was in Pakistan for almost a month.

11. From 1 Jan 2020 my family has moved to a new place which we own and I am going to live there again for a month in February.

So, my question is how I shall disclose all this on form DS260?

Shall I just ignore my short work stays between 2007 and Aug 2013 and just say I stayed at home A from 1 Jan 2007 to Aug 2013?

From Sep 2013 till to date do I have to just mention my address in Saudi Arabia, or I must disclose my family home addresses in Pakistan as well especially when I stayed there for a month after my marriage?

Hello everyone I want to know that is it important to verify police character certificate from foreign ministry or is it okay without foreign ministry verification.

Hi guys,

We need to submit tax transcript with i846. IRS website lets you download only masked/redacted version of tax transcripts. Is NVC OK with the redacted version or they ask for unmasked/unredacted version. Has anyone recently submitted masked version without getting RFE?

Thanks