My fiancee has lived in Nepal and Saudi Arabia in the past.

According to the Visa recoprocity page http://www.travel.state.gov/visa/reciprocity/index.htm
Saudi Arabia will not issue a police certificate to a foreign national who no longer lives in Saudi Arabia. It also says that police certificatesr from Nepal are "generally" available.

I also found this list on immihelp.com

http://www.immihelp.com/immigration/police-certificates.html

Which gives a list of countries with unobtainable police certificates, countries from which you should not bother trying to acquire them; Nepal and Saudi Arabia are both on the list.

Does anyone have any advice on this? I would like to find something more official than a guide on immihelp.com; where can I find a more 'official' answer?



btw does anyone know why the replies in a thread are collapsed, and I can only read them one at a time now? I hadn't checked the boards for a few days and am suddenly having this problem.

I can help you only with the last question: on the right top of the page you have Options and choose Standard.

Yeah I figured it out right after I posted :-)

There are countries that do not issue police certificates. The US Govn't knows this and will not make you go on a wild, futile, goose chase.

If you check out the gallery section of this site, there's a set of scans of Packet 3 from London. It includes information on the police certificate process for that country, but includes a list of countries that you can't get a cert from.

If you can't get a certificate from there, congrats! That's one less thing to do!

You can surf around here to see if there is more specific info or scans from your country's embassy. But the information should be the same, regardless of Embassy.

mchakko,

The consular officer who is going to process the visa application, and will be looking for the police certificates.

Or perhaps an immigration attorney.

Yodrak

Thanks, that helps a lot! That list matches the one on immihelp (at least to the extent that Saudi and Nepal are on both of them.)
I wonder if the Indian packet 3 will include that list? We'll find out in a couple weeks I suppose when she receives it.

It most likely will include information about police certificates and include the lists of countries from which they cannot be obtained.

It may *SEEM* like a likely part of the process that the State Dept would let you run around going crazy trying to get something that you just can't get, but they do take pity on us and actually TELL us when we don't have to worry on this subject!

We did fine without a police certificate as Sierra Leone is on the list
with unobtainable certificates.
My fiance tried to get one from the local police but was told they have nothing
like that.
It never came up at the interview.