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I'm going through immigration process with my wife and daughter (who are both Japanese citizens). As we all know, the folks in GZ want to see "criminal record" reports covering the time we have been in China. As I understand it, the final reports are supposed to come from the Notarization office, who issue "white book" documents. But, in order to issue the "white book", the Notarization Office first wants to know that you have no criminal record. So, where to get criminal record info?? It seems impossible. The Chinese police won't issue any documentation to you unless you're Chinese, and (recently) neither will the immigration authorities. The Notarization office folks know this, and told me to get documentation from my employer (to cover my wife), and from my daughter's school. The school worked out OK, but I can't persuade my employer to issue any statement about my wife. The Notarization office just want a statement saying "we're not aware of any criminal activity" (i.e. "we don't know"), but I can't even get my employer to do this. Anybody else had this problem (in Shanghai)? Any suggestions ? -
Hello I am a Canadian citizen living in China. I married an American last year. I went to the consulate in Guangzhou for my spousal visa interview and the visa officer requested police clearance checks for my entire time in China. I have lived in China off and on for 13 years. I have been doing some research and what I have found is that in order to get police checks from the cites I've worked in I would need to have my passport with my Chinese visas and the entry and exit stamps. I first came to China in 2003 and am no longer in possession of that passport as I did not have it returned to me from the passport office in Canada. Some of the companies that can obtain police checks have told that it will not be possible to get the record checks. I have also read that the PSB or police stations will not issue any sort of documentation stating that they will not provide the record checks. If I am unable to get the record checks and by all accounts it seems that I won't or any other sort of documentation, what would my next course of action be? I am in the process of talking to an immigration lawyer in Beijing. I am saving all communication between the companies I've emailed but I am not sure if that will be enough to satisfy the requirements at the consulate. The visa officer said they wanted to see real evidence of an attempt to get the record checks. Has anybody else experienced this type of scenario? Thank you for your time. -
So, we received the notice that we can go ahead and book an appointment, and when logging in, only dates for the next couple of weeks show as available. Actually, when I logged in this morning, the only available dates were May 4, 9-11. When I logged in again now, dates the following week now appear (May 17,18). There are no available dates in the months after that (all the way to the end of the year). It's great dates are available so soon, but we can't book an appointment until July (because we have to get a police report from my wife's home country and it takes 2 months to get it and her embassy wouldn't let her apply for it until she had the paper from the US embasy saying she needed it). So my question is, do dates become available later on? In other words, next week dates will "free up" one month from now, etc.? How does one book an appointment later than the dates that show now? It can't be that these are the only available dates until the end of the year. Screenshot:
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Hi, I gave CR1 visa interview at New Delhi, India embassy. After interview they said congratulations, you visa has been approved. When I went to pick up passport after 4 days, they gave me 221g mentioning that there is something wrong with China Police Certificate. Now our case is in administrative processing. My current police certificate is attached. Can someone please share screenshot of their police certificate (you can hide your personal information) so I can find what is wrong with police certificate i submitted.
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Hi Sorry if this topic has been addressed before! Does the applicant need to bring a white book copy of his family hukou to the GUZ interview? And, Does the applicant need police record check certificates for each city he has lived in in China? Or just from his hometown? We have a white book translated official certificate that was issued for him in his home city, but he's also lived in 3 other cities in China - does he need anything from there? He's been living in Shanghai for the last 2 years, does he need one from here? (please God, no) Our Interview is in one week... Last Question: We didn't get an email confirming our interview time, but we have a screenshot of the confirmation page after we made the appointment on the website...can we just print this out?? Or should we print something from UStraveldocs.com? Thanks guys!
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Hello all! Very important and puzzling questions we've got here... My husband is a Chinese citizen, and I am a US citizen. We are applying for a CR-1 visa for him, and the immigrant visa instructions for the police certificates say (the bold refers to the areas which I don't completely understand): Each applicant aged 16 years or older must submit a police certificate from (1) the police authorities of each locality of the country of the applicant’s nationality, (2) country of residence at the time of visa application if the applicant has resided there for at least 6 months, (3) from all other countries where the applicant has resided for at least 12 months, and (4) from the police authorities of any place where the applicant has been arrested for any reason, regardless of how long he or she lived there... Police certificates must cover the entire period of the applicant’s residence in any area. A certificate issued by the police authorities where applicants now reside must be of recent date when presented to the consular officer... Check the reciprocity schedule at http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/fees/reciprocity-by-country.htmlfor police certificate requirements for various countries. Question 1 (refer to the first and third bold areas): My husband has lived in four cities in China (his home country) since the age of 16. Does he need to get a police report for each place he has lived? Question(s) 2: My husband has lived in the UK and South Korea for over 12 months. Does he have to get a police certificate from the bureaus in the cities in which he lived in the UK and South Korea? And how can he do that from China? Can he go to their embassies in Shanghai and request the police reports there? Question 3: The reciprocity schedule website states it is listing information for non-immigrant visas...so why is this information included in the immigrant visa information packet?! -
E-mail materials to NVC and a few other questions!
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Hello community. Me (American) and my husband (Spanish) are both living and working in China and are in the process of doing DCF in Guangzhou. We already submitted the I-130 and my husband has already filled out the DS-260. Do I have to e-mail all the materials (I-864, police certificate, marriage certificate, etc.) to the NVC like the travel.state.gov website instructs? I just want to make sure because it is not that clear, and looking at other people's DCF experiences, nobody mentions the step of e-mailing materials to NVC. That makes me think they didn't do the e-mail part. My other question involves police certificates. Do I, the petitioner, have to get police certificates from China and USA also, or is that job only for the beneficiary? My final question involves the I-864. I want to make sure that the signature of my joint-sponsor has to be original and not a scanned a printed signature. Is this true? Does this mean my joint sponsor has to mail the I-864 and all documents physically to me? Thank you very much! -
Hello all. We had the interview today and were approved pending the receival of two documents: a police certificate from Shanghai and from Iran. The Iranian certificate is stuck in bureaucracy. The Shanghai police have stopped issuing police certificates for foreign nationals residing in China. It's unfortunate for us. She will start a log of each time she attempts to aquire either and perhaps in a couple of months, if she does not receive both of the documents, they will reconsider her visa. Harold
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Hello, My fiancee is an Iranian citizen having lived in China for three years as a student and a professional. I'd like to reach out to the community of foreign nationals in China as well as those knowledgeable about Guangzhou and K-1 in China. I have two concerns: 1. Her police certificate from Iran is stuck in bureaucracy hell. She has sent off for it many months ago. She will not have it for the interview. A call to the NVC says she is not required to have one from Iran but an email to the consulate disagrees. 2. We have only been able to meet once as my work schedule is somewhat grueling. When we did meet it was in Turkey as she did not need a visa to get there and it afforded us two more days together (travel time to China and what not). I am trying to make it there for her interview, which is on Sep 6, but am not certain of that. Will that help? If anyone has any opinions, knowledge, experience on these matters as well as general tips it would be very much appreciated if you were to share them. Harold
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Greetings- We have finally scheduled our interview and are double-checking the instructions for paperwork to bring. In this set of instructions I see some things that I didn't find before in other places. We got the "white books" done a few months ago when home for the Chinese New Year, so I'm really hoping they don't need to be redone. In the Visa Instructions, it says this regarding the birth certificate, "The certificate must also indicate that the public office extracted the information from official records." I'm thinking this would be from the hukou. In my husband's notarized whitebook, I can't see anything that says where they got the information from, neither in the English or Chinese. Second, I just want to double-check that a notarization regarding his non-criminal record is good nation-wide. We don't need to get one from each city he has lived in, correct? Thanks so much! Cheers!
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Happy CNY everyone, my wife just finished her interview on Feb 2. She told me that she had a very nice VO. It went very smoothly. However, the VO requested to get Kenya police report as she worked in Kenya for a few years. Background: My wife worked in Kenya for a few years. It was around 2009. She left Kenya in 2013. She first went there as an volunteer to teach Chinese language there. After she finished her volunteer work, she got a job there. She never stayed in Kenya for more than 12 months consequtively. Problem: VO gave us AP after the interview, requesting police report/clearance from Kenya. To make it short, the Kenya police report is very difficult to get under the current situation. Question: The worse sitionatioin would be going to Kenya to get the report. Because it is a very corrupted country and the system is very inefficient, it might be impossible to get it even we go there in person. Is there anyway we could do other than obtaining the police report from Kenya? Do I need to consult with a lawyer now? Thank you! -
Stuck in AP for a few months now, I've sent an email inquiry and gotten back the standard cookie cutter reply. Is there a number I can call and speak to an actual person? The GUZ consulate site has a phone number but mentions they can't answer inquiries about immigrant visas and to use the email form instead.
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Hello all, First, I'd just like to say thank you to the past and present Candleforlove community for the wealth of information it has provided on the visa process. I hate to think how confused and frustrated I would have been without being able to look through these forums. So, thanks! Anyway, here's my situation: My wife and I filed our I-130 in Guangzhou on March 19. We received our e-mail notification to proceed on with the DS-260 on April 10th, and submitted that, along with the required documents, on April 15. We are now in the process of organizing and getting notarized the documents that will be required for the interview, and we have come across a potential problem. The police certificate my wife obtained from her Hukou residence (Youxian, Hunan) only states that she has no criminal record there. It does not say that she has no criminal record in all of China. When we take this to the notary, we're afraid it will be translated strictly to say the same thing in English, and that this will not be acceptable to the embassy. We're also afraid that if we go back to Youxian to get a new certificate, the local police will say that they cannot issue a certificate which covers the whole country. I've spent several hours today searching through Candleforlove as well as Visa Journey for similar cases and have come up short. We would really appreciate your thoughts and/or guidance with this question. Finally, sorry if my search was inadequate and the similar case I'm looking for is somewhere on these websites, Thank you, -Devin -
Hi guys. Very frustrated with the process of gathering white books and records for filing the i-130 in Guangzhou. We got married the other day, and went to get the white books the same day. The people at the office told us we would only need the white book for one of our marriage certificates, because both marriage certificates (red books) are essentially the same, the only difference being who's name comes first. I decided better safe than sorry and got white books for both of our marriage certificates despite their advice. Now my wife has just gotten her white books delivered for the police record and birth certificate... but with no original certificates, only the notarized copy and translation (white book). They apparently said that we won't need original copies, only the white books. Is this right? It doesn't sound right to me. Thanks!! -
My wife is from Haerbin and her hukou is from there, she got her criminal background documents from there. Currently, she's been living in Shanghai for 3 years. Is the papers from her hometown enough? Or do we need background checks from both cities? Thank you all in advance. Regards. -
My wife (Russian) and I met and married in Shanghai. Her interview was last week and everything went well except her police clearance only went back to 2011 and needs to go back to 2007. Unfortunately, Gong Zheng Chu would only issue the police clearance from 2011 because the rest of her Chinese visas were in her old passport (which is lost). Even bringing her diploma from the university in Dalian (2007-2011) was not enough for them. Is there an alternative way to prove that she lived in China during that time? So far, no luck getting this information from the Russian consulate. Because she lived in the dorms, apparently she didn't need to register with the local police as those of us working in China need to do so we can't get that kind of documentation. Her entry/exit ports into China were exclusively through ManZhouLi. So, we're not sure which city to even begin looking (ManZhouLi, Dalian, Shanghai, Beijing?) Any suggestions are highly appreciated. Best Regards, David -
Hi all, and thanks in advance for any help with this issue! It's a little different problem because neither I nor my fiancee are Chinese citizens, but we do have to deal with the Chinese gov't for part of our own fiancee visa process. My fiancee is British, and she spent about 18 months in China in two locations on the mainland, Guangdong and Suzhou. We've sent the I-129f in and been approved, so we're working on the documents that she'll need to bring to her interview in London when the time comes. According to the US website, she'll need police records from the UK, AND from any country she has resided in for more than 12 months, so, China. I can't find any reliable info on how to request these forms from China if you're not actually IN China at the present time. Most forums talk about going to local government agencies in person and applying. Obviously neither of us can do that at this time. Anyone have any helpful hints on what to do next? Thanks again!
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Dear CFL, thanks for the responses on my previous posts. Got one more question, hope someone can provide me some advices. I lived in Colorado from Aug 2000 - Oct 2002 on F1 (Student) visa. Do I need a police certificate for that period of time? If so, where should I send my request to? And any idea how long it might take for me to get the certificate back? Thank you!
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First off, these forums have been a great help in our visa process. My wife and I are preparing for our interview later this month (we live in Shanghai, DCF in Beijing), and there are just a few details I'm not sure about. 1. Police report: we've lived in SH for 10 years, wife's hukou is Jiangsu. Our local SH police station said they can provide a police report covering 2008 to now. Is that sufficient for the interview, or do we need to get something covering a longer period of time, which would require trip back to Jiangsu? 2. For medical exam in Shanghai, when are results available? I've read they are available later same afternoon when done at GZ facility, but not sure about Shanghai. 3. Any idea of what current vaccinations are required? We don't have her records; it seems everyone is in this situation. My wife is still breastfeeding our baby, and I've read that most vaccinations are fine while nursing, but some clarity on which vaccines they will give her would be appreciated. Thanks. -
Hello, I live in Shanghai and I need to get my wife's local documents translated for the application. Does anyone know a reliable source to get them done here? Best regards, Julian
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Hi, Being a non-chinese applicant, do my birth certificate and non-criminal record require an apostille stamp? The instructions request a "certified copy of his/her birth certificate" and my birth certificate is certified by the Ministry of Interior. Is that not certified enough?
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My IR1 visa status is in transit.Right now I am double checking the checklist and I have some questions.Please help! I sent all the original documents of police record and birth certificate to NVC.But the instruction says I will have to present the original copies at the interview. Will I get them back before the interview or do I have to get another one?( I chose the electronic process) I was living with my husband in Japan before I came back to China in the July of 2013. Since then I have been waiting for the immigrant visa in China. I have my police certificates from Japan.Do I need to get another one to cover the period of time from July 2013 till now? Approximately how long will it take before my interview is scheduled? My status just turned from "in NVC" to "in transit" yesterday.Happy new year to you all! Thanks! Wanbin
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Dear US consulate , This is the first time I went to this forum, so I sorry I don't know how to edit the title after I accidentally posted before I wrote the whole question. My question is : "Should I get a no criminal record from English because I spent more than one year in England to get my master's degree there?" I am a Chinese, but I went to England to have my master's degree during 2008-2009. I am currently applying for permanent residency in the United States and have been asked to provide a police certificate from all countries where I resided for more than six months, which includes my time in England. I wrote three letters to the embassy in Guangzhou through the email provided in their website, and each letter is about two or three weeks later than the previous one, but there is no response by now. So I am not sure whether I should get one no criminal record from England. I think because I have got my master's degree already, if there is anything criminal on me, they would not have given me my degree. But if the embassy insist that I should got one no criminal record, how could I get it and who should I contact, since I am in China. Actually there is another question, I got my"Schedule your visa interview appointment" letter on Sep. 6th. But because I haven't figured out how to get the no criminal record, I have not made my appointment yet. Is there a deadline for my appointment? So appreciated if anyone could help!
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Two questions: Going to get everything translated and notarized soon. 1. How many copies of the "white book" should I get? Additional copies the day of are only 20 RMB per. If I return to get more copies later, I have to pay the base fee of 210 again. So, two copies today would cost 230; three 250 RMB, etc. One today and one tomorrow would cost 420 RMB. We're also translating the following: Wife's hukou Wife's birth certificate Son's birth certificate Wife's criminal background check Our marriage certificates 2. Am I missing anything? Thanks! -
This is my first post, been following this forum for months now, but I think perhaps our visa case is very unusual. My fiancé and I are both foreigners living in china as study abroad students. We were together 3 years before getting engaged, and are living in china currently. My fiancé is from Pakistan, and We had a baby last year which was born back home in USA. We were still waiting on the K1 when my son was born and my fiancé couldn't be there for his birth. Long story short, my fiancé is from Pakistan and since we stay in china we interviewed here. The interview went fine but he got a blue slip for Chinese police certificate (he already had one from Pakistan which we were informed was the only one he needed) and also work resume. We submitted both documents and they received them on Dec 8. Emailed 3-4 times and always the same "administrative processing" reply. I am unsure how long does it take because the police certificates expire at 6 months and I had to change my tickets back home from winter to summer. How long does this take, is it possible it will take until July to get an answer?
