Hey all. We are working on the next steps in preperation. I have asked this before but I have more details and so forth now. My wife worked and stayed in Brunei from June 2007 to July of 2007. She resigned from her post and came back home to the Philippines and applied for a tourist visa. It was approved the first week of Aug, and she went there the last week of Aug 2007 and stayed till December 2007. I found on the state.gov site http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants/info/info_3195.html that if she didnt live there for 1 year she doesnt need a police clearance. This is correct right? We dont need to worry about that?

Based on that I would say that no, one is not needed. But if you want to be on the safe side you could request a police record just in case.

Requirements vary but the shortest residency to require a police report is six months, so by my read she stayed 1-2 months in one trip and about 4 months on the second trip, so no need for police report. Extended stays as a tourist are not the same thing as "residing". Only the first trip would qualify as "residing".

Excellent! That is one less worry now!
Thank you all very much.

I think for the Philippines it is 6 months, my wife got her NBI clearance already, but you might want to call the NVC if your case is there to make sure. I remember it saying anyplace she lived for 6 months or longer outside her country she will then need at police clearance for that country.

Thanks everybody. My next question is if the goverment wants it to be less then 6 months old....when is that 6 month good to...say if it expires before it hits the embassy or does it still need to be valid when it get that far?

Ops just now seen your case still at the UCIS, so I think you might want to get on the manila usa embassy website I think there it will tell you the info you need to:-)