Police certificate from AU

[Belijima 0]

Hi people!

I live in Japan and I used to live in Australia (several times and all together more than a year).

So i need to obtain a police certificate from Australia.

I already have my fingerprints that i did it by myself at the police station.

But i'm not sure if i really need fingerprints to obtain Australian police certificate...

There are like 4 choices to get a police certificate. And the fees are all different.

If u pick the one with fingerprints the fee wil be over $100.

The one without will cost about $40.

I've been trying to find out and sent some messgaes to Australian police on their AFP website.

BUT they never reply!!!

If i do need fingerprints, do i also need to get certified them by notary from Australian consulate??

I really don't know what to do...

My fiance is like forget it and just pay extra and send it now!

Please help us!!!

[Marina-Del 10]

Hi people!

I live in Japan and I used to live in Australia (several times and all together more than a year).

So i need to obtain a police certificate from Australia.

I already have my fingerprints that i did it by myself at the police station.

But i'm not sure if i really need fingerprints to obtain Australian police certificate...

There are like 4 choices to get a police certificate. And the fees are all different.

If u pick the one with fingerprints the fee wil be over $100.

The one without will cost about $40.

I've been trying to find out and sent some messgaes to Australian police on their AFP website.

BUT they never reply!!!

If i do need fingerprints, do i also need to get certified them by notary from Australian consulate??

I really don't know what to do...

My fiance is like forget it and just pay extra and send it now!

Please help us!!!

My Aussie fiancee got his police cert from Oz while we were living in London. I was unaware that there were more than two different kinds of Oz police certificate. *for the record, this experience is from 2006!*. So, either they didn't have two choices back then, or we asked and they said we needed the one with the fingerprints...I can't remember!

We also emailed them a million times and they never responded...we ended up calling them one night from London. Anyway, we got the one with the fingerprints. We had his fingerprints taken for free at the local police station, DID NOT HAVE THEM NOTARIZED, and sent them along with the application form to his parents in Australia. Once that arrived in Australia, his parents wrote a check for the amount (because we didn't have Australian dollars/checks with us in London), and they sent it to the AFP. A couple days later the AFP sent it back to his parents and his parents mailed it back to us in London.

Again, sorry I can't remember if the fingerprints were the only option back then or if we found out somehow that it was required. The London certificate he had to get did not have fingerprints and that was okay....but I don't know! I do remember though, that Oz was really quick about everything! It was only the time in the mail that bogged it down! But, even though we mailed it back and forth a million times, the Oz certificate was faster than the London one! And that was NEVER in the mail, as we went to the station to apply and picked it back up at the station when it was ready!

Hopefully some more recent aussies can answer!

Edited to add: Maybe you should call the AFP or the American Consulate in Japan to ask. Because MAYBE, you need the one with fingerprints because the consulate in Japan will be looking at a police certificate from a country that it is not familiar with (for example, the guys at the Japan consulate know what Japanese docs look like, but not what Australian ones look like), so maybe they want a more hardcore cert!? I don't know...I have an tickle in the back of my head that says there WERE two different types of certificates available back then, but that one of them specifically said on the AFP website that it needed to be used for visas to other countries....

Edited March 25, 2009 by Marina-Del

[payxibka 10,045]

this might help:

If you reside outside Australia

Applicants who live overseas should refer requests to the Australian Federal Police. Applicants are required to apply for a police certificate based on a name and fingerprint check. Police clearances issued on the basis of only a name check will not be accepted. More information is available on their website at: http://www.afp.gov.au/ or via e-mail at vetting@afp.gov.au.

http://travel.state.gov/visa/frvi/reciproc...ocity_3504.html

PC are consulate issues so I will move to consulate forum

Edited March 25, 2009 by payxibka

[Belijima 0]

Hi people!

I live in Japan and I used to live in Australia (several times and all together more than a year).

So i need to obtain a police certificate from Australia.

I already have my fingerprints that i did it by myself at the police station.

But i'm not sure if i really need fingerprints to obtain Australian police certificate...

There are like 4 choices to get a police certificate. And the fees are all different.

If u pick the one with fingerprints the fee wil be over $100.

The one without will cost about $40.

I've been trying to find out and sent some messgaes to Australian police on their AFP website.

BUT they never reply!!!

If i do need fingerprints, do i also need to get certified them by notary from Australian consulate??

I really don't know what to do...

My fiance is like forget it and just pay extra and send it now!

Please help us!!!

My Aussie fiancee got his police cert from Oz while we were living in London. I was unaware that there were more than two different kinds of Oz police certificate. *for the record, this experience is from 2006!*. So, either they didn't have two choices back then, or we asked and they said we needed the one with the fingerprints...I can't remember!

We also emailed them a million times and they never responded...we ended up calling them one night from London. Anyway, we got the one with the fingerprints. We had his fingerprints taken for free at the local police station, DID NOT HAVE THEM NOTARIZED, and sent them along with the application form to his parents in Australia. Once that arrived in Australia, his parents wrote a check for the amount (because we didn't have Australian dollars/checks with us in London), and they sent it to the AFP. A couple days later the AFP sent it back to his parents and his parents mailed it back to us in London.

Again, sorry I can't remember if the fingerprints were the only option back then or if we found out somehow that it was required. The London certificate he had to get did not have fingerprints and that was okay....but I don't know! I do remember though, that Oz was really quick about everything! It was only the time in the mail that bogged it down! But, even though we mailed it back and forth a million times, the Oz certificate was faster than the London one! And that was NEVER in the mail, as we went to the station to apply and picked it back up at the station when it was ready!

Hopefully some more recent aussies can answer!

Edited to add: Maybe you should call the AFP or the American Consulate in Japan to ask. Because MAYBE, you need the one with fingerprints because the consulate in Japan will be looking at a police certificate from a country that it is not familiar with (for example, the guys at the Japan consulate know what Japanese docs look like, but not what Australian ones look like), so maybe they want a more hardcore cert!? I don't know...I have an tickle in the back of my head that says there WERE two different types of certificates available back then, but that one of them specifically said on the AFP website that it needed to be used for visas to other countries....

Thank u for ur response. It seems like i need fingerprints to obtain a police certificate..so i will just send it soon!

I've read someone who had to do this said that she didn't get her fingerprints notarized and still got her police certificate! Oh, this info is not from Visa Journey tho. Anyway, thank u!

[Belijima 0]

this might help:

If you reside outside Australia

Applicants who live overseas should refer requests to the Australian Federal Police. Applicants are required to apply for a police certificate based on a name and fingerprint check. Police clearances issued on the basis of only a name check will not be accepted. More information is available on their website at: http://www.afp.gov.au/ or via e-mail at vetting@afp.gov.au.

http://travel.state.gov/visa/frvi/reciproc...ocity_3504.html

PC are consulate issues so I will move to consulate forum

Thank u for the information. Ok, so i do need fingerprints. I was gonna send them without getting notarized but do u think that's good idea?