Civil Documents for NVC

[ptrober 0]

I am trying to collate my parents civil documents ahead of time so we are ready when the case is forwarded to the NVC. However, I am running into some issues with police certificates. I understand that the NVC & CIS will accept situations where records are not available but how will they handle situations where the records are available but the beneficiary cannot provide the information necessary to have the records released?

For example, my dad is 80 and over his life has lived in Jamaica, Bermuda, Cayman Islands and Trinidad as well as in his country of nationality (UK). You may consider him unwise, but he destroyed some of his old passports. After all, although hindsight is a wonderful thing, why bother to keep passports that expired in the 1950s when you have had four or five others since?

According to both the US State Department and the Cayman Police Office, to get records from Cayman you have to provide copies of the passport pages showing your entry and exit stamps. Obviously he no longer has this.

Similarly with Jamaica, you have to get a friend or relative presently living in Jamaica to apply for these records on your behalf. Given that it was several decades ago he lived there he no longer knows anyone. His friends have either moved back to the US or UK or have passed away.

I have tried to speak with the NVC but they will not assist until I have an NVC number.

Will merely providing the informaiton we can get and a covering letter explaining the missing records be sufficient or will this be a roadblock? For someone of my dad's age, getting records from when they just turned 16 is not a simple task. We do have precise records and dates for everything in the past thirty years. Will that be sufficient or will they be adamant about having records for the 50 years before that also?

Thanks in advance!

ptrober

[Mononoke28 134]

I'm thinking it would be some kind of a roadblock because the records are available for him to get, the only problem is in how to get them. In this case I don't think there's anything the NVC can do but you will have to call the people in charge of issuing these certificates in each country to find out what you can do to get them.

Diana