Original police certificate only states 'no crime in this jurisdic

[lidewen]

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

[dnoblett]

This is normal, typically you get this translated where you get the other civil documents (Birth cert, Marriage cert, etc...)