Police reports from all other countries where applicant lived 12+ mos

[Ksenia]

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?!

Edited October 22, 2016 by Randy W
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[Randy W]

There are two sections in the reciprocity tables (https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/fees/reciprocity-by-country.html) - the one for non-immigrant visas discusses non-immigrant visa application fees and recoprocity fees.

The immigrant visa section is the one you are interested in. It discusses civil documents, "such as birth certificates and police records. (Nonimmigrant visa applicants do not routinely need to submit civil documents as part of their visa application.)"

[dnoblett]

 

UK police cert here: https://www.acro.police.uk/police_certificates.aspx

https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/fees/reciprocity-by-country/UK.html

 

South Korea:

https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/fees/reciprocity-by-country/KS.html

[Ksenia]

Randy W and dnoblett - Thank you very much!! I really appreciate your replies!!