Police Report

[david_dawei]

The hukou is the city where she is registered and that is where the police report should be from.

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I'm not sure if she is registered anywhere, she lived in US for six prior to 2004 give or take a few years. So this is a little confusing.

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Better get a Police report from her place of residence in USA too it seems

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You don't need one for US.. this is done as part of name checks.

[david_dawei]

BWT: Don't children 16 and older need the police cert too?

[CR1togo]

BWT: Don't children 16 and older need the police cert too?

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Yes. acw

[ed and ying]

A police report in China, for a chinese national, is one size fits all. It's all based on the houkou. That's fact and the only problems I have ever seen about a police report is that is was too dated (even by a few days) or the name listed on the report conflicted with the visa applicant's (transposed on the translation).

 

If someone wants to follow the instructions, knock yourself out. Unless you hand over a respectable bribe, you won't be able to get one from any place other than the houkou.

 

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That's our sentiments and experiences too.

 

Went to her registered hukou, requested PC, they checked the computer and gave us a paper, took it to the hukou, they prepared and translated the cert w/ wording "no criminal sanctions in China as of" date.) I believe there is even a post about someone's PC that did NOT say "in China", they were concerned yet passed the interview!

 

I have seen others report attempts to obtain certs from:

1) All places they have lived in China and/or;

2) try to obtain them at a hukou where they live VS. their registered Hukou.

 

They wasted a lot of time spinning their wheels!

 

Just talked to the wife also- it is believed that IF you commit a crime OUTSIDE your hukou area the PSB will report such to your hukou. They have the Chinese National ID card with that person's unique number (which also lists your original hukou) and some of the newer ID's are being digital encoded. acw

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We just completed process of getting Yings documents. I agree totally with what is posted in both qoutes. To add to the challenge, Ying's hometown is small. 40,000. The notary is in a "larger" city ( 130,000).

 

The process starts at the city the houkou ( houshold register) is. ( Not where SO currently lives, unless that is where houkou/household is registered) With the houshold register in hand, a handwriten statement of her birth record and a handwriiten accoount that she had no police record were obtained from the local officials in her hometown. These had the official red stamps and signatures.

 

(The police statment said "no record in China" as of July, 1, 2005)

 

These documents were taken, along with the household register to the notorial office in the larger city. The notarial official reviewed the documents and provided some text for single certificate. It was basically a statement that Ying swore she was never married and bears all respoonsibility for false statement. This was typed up and signed in front of the notary.

 

It all went very smoothly at the notary, about 2 hours work, and we were able to pickup the documents 2 days later. We did learn from a previous investigative visit that this notary office requires a color photo for the birth certificate, so were prepared for that. We did remind the notary the the English translation required a statement of competence, good thing we did as this jarred the memory " Oh yes, this is for America, they are only ones that require this "

 

We got 3 complete sets of documents/translatiions for 1100 RMB.

 

BTW - Ying did inguire with Beijing police about police report - they said go to where her houkou is. Ying's brother, a policeman, confirmed that police report is nationwide and obtained from SO's current houkou (regardless of where SO lives)