Police Certificates for US & UK?

Sorry to re-visit an older topic, but this one's in my "master" folder!

Re: quote below, I will need a second form for the time spent living in the US, do I just fill in all details as if for the other country, or is the form quite clear for another country?

Presumably I would have to send an extra £10 for the second form too

Just wondered as I come closer to starting this ...again!

Thanks

Sheril.


3. More than one certificate is required if applicant has lived outside the country of their nationality for more than 6 months or was arrested for any reason, regardless of how long they lived there.
4. In order to obtain the required statement, you should apply to your local police station, where you will be given the application forms.
5. When completing the application form, the applicable category is "prosecution/conviction history". There is a fee of 10 pounds sterling.

I'm not quite sure what you're asking.
The police requests are for the UK citizen.
The request goes to the national center (I forget what it is called at the moment)
When you get the form (go to the police station where the two of you live currently) - fill out the form they give you. On it, it will ask where you have lived (or whoever is the UK citizen in your partnership) for more than 6 moths at a time. Just fill that 1 form in, and it's done. My husband lived several places in the UK for more than 6 months at a time, it's all on that form.
Really, once you go to your local police station and request the information form - it's easy peasy.
Do you have the form yet?

(Sorry if I'm not answering correctly...)

Also - the US citizen doesn't need to submit any police record information. It is ONLY for the UK citizen - if the UK citizen has lived outside the UK - on a resident visa - then you'd have to apply for records from that counttry. IE : If the UK citizen is a Swiss national and came to the UK in 1990 and has lived here as a permanent resident ever since, he'd have to get records from Swizterland.

Making sense? Clear as mud, aint it.
 

Hi!

I am so sorry, I am just not getting reply alerts, so I forget where I have posted!

I made it as clear as mud didn't I!!! Let me try again.

3. More than one certificate is required if applicant has lived outside the country of their nationality for more than 6 months

I am the UKC and I have lived outside of my country of nationality for longer than 6 mths ( the 2 years I was in the USA marrying the USC) & I am confused about how to cover that period for the police reports (locally, meaning in the US towns) or 2 forms for here (for which I send £20 in instead of £10 and then just give the appropriate details and they check the info ( which seems at best optimistic to me, given that I have been through this in 1998 and everything that could go wrong did!)

I hope that's a bit clearer

sheril.

You'll have to go to the US authourities and request your police report from them directly.
Go to your local UK polioce station and request the form (the one I PM'ed you about) and send in the £10 with it.
Then separately contact the US authorities to get your report from the US. I don't know how much that will cost, or who you go to (I'd have to do a bit of research about that, and I'm inbetween a feed and a diaper change at the moment!). But the US one (or anywhere overseas you've lived for 6 months or more) is a separate process. Whetever form they give you, bring it to your interview along with what you get in the mail from the UK guys.

Hope that helps - when I get a minute I'll try to find out how to get the US records, unless someone on here knows?

Added:
http://www.usembassy.org.uk/cons_web/faqs/iv/faq_pc.htm

FAQs about police records.
Doesn't say how you get your police records from the US though... Hrmmm. Still, it might be helpful.

*thinking (typing) out loud here*
*goes off to look for more info*

MarsBar, didn't you & your hubby live in the US together before moving to the UK? Did you have to get a US police record for him?

You don't need to worry about the time you were in the US - the Embassy will get that information directly. If your only places of residence were the UK and the US then just get the UK certificate. I was in exactly the same situation and got my visa last month.

Good luck!

Fantastic. Thanks Philgr99!!

Thanks very much to you both, for all your help ~ Phew, relief
Hope baby is doing well M

Sheril.

Welcome Philgr99!! Thanks for that info