Hi all,

I'm petitioning my spouse. She lives in Canada on a work permit (we were married there). She is from the Philippines originally (but hasn't been there in quite a few years) but has also spent time since (before Canada) working in Hong Kong.

So since she lived in the Philippines, Hong Kong, and Canada each for more than 6 months, I'm assuming she'll need police certificates from each of these.

She seems to think that to request a certificate from these places, she cannot just ask for one. They need to see some sort of document that shows a government agency is actually requesting it. Is this true? For those of you who requested from the Philippines or Hong Kong, how did you do it?

Also, I just sent out the $70 fee bill payment because it said to, but I'm seeing that I could have paid online to process it more quickly? How much do you think that will slow us down?

Thanks!!!

DOS has a handy pages for this, which tell you how to get when living in the country or overseas.

For HK it is called a CNCC http://www.travel.state.gov/visa/frvi/reci..._3579.html#docs
For Canada: http://www.travel.state.gov/visa/frvi/reci..._3531.html#docs
For PI http://www.travel.state.gov/visa/frvi/reci..._3650.html#docs

Thank you for the response, those links were helpful.

I'm still confused on some of the details. When digging into Hong Kong, they seem to indicate they will send the certificate directly to the consulate. It looks like MTL Montreal will be the one, but Montreal hasn't requested it yet? I haven't even submitted the DS-230 yet.

Would Montreal know what to do with this or where to file it? I was hoping these agencies would just send us the certificates and we would then have or forward them as needed.

The problem is I'd like to process these certificates now so that waiting on them doesn't delay the whole process. The suggestions I've seen were that I should "start gathering" these documents now, but I can't really gather them if they're not sent directly to me.

Thanks for your thoughts on this...

was just about to post the same question thank you for the link,
I was told that before I requested a police certificate I had to have a case number.

One question that I wanted to know is I grew up in the UK and then moved to Australia and have been here for 6 years do I need a police certificate for both the UK and Australia ?

In HK police, they will only process your request for police certificate if you will send to them a copy of notice from US Embassy-Montreal indicating that your wife required to get HK police certificate to process her US visa. And yes, they will send her police certificate to the US Embassy-Montreal where her documents was filed.


Yes!

When you say "a copy of notice" do you mean just a generic notice, like a page from the website, where they say in general what they require? Or does it have to be some statement I request from the NVC or the Embassy that specifically shows our names and specifically mentions Hong Kong? If so, would I just email NVC to try to get this statement/notice that will allow me to request the police certificate?

Also, if I request the police certificate NOW, will the Embassy know what to do with it? I'm still just a month or so into the NVC processing, so I wouldn't think the Embassy would want this yet??

Sorry to be so dumb on this, but everything else on this journey has been clearer and this subject is a little cloudy to me.



Thanks!