Police Reports & Apostiles- Urgent help needed

[Liz_Allan 0]

When we began this process, we did not realize the police report might expire before the interview.

Now we have the information on what we will need to bring to the interview and (surprise) the police report needs to be apostilled or taken to the US embassy of where that police report was generated.

If you have never lived away from your own country then this is not a problem. But Allan was a student at a school in Honduras for over a year. He had obtained a copy of the police report earlier this year when he turned in all his final books and checked out in January, but we did NOT know about the paper needing to be apostilled when he got it. He has since returned to Costa Rica and is working there now.

SO, since Allan lived in Honduras for a while when he was in school, he will need to find a way to get that document authenticated/apostilled.

It's a HUGE long bus ride back to Honduras from Costa Rica and we don't want Allan to take that ride if he doesn't have to. It's not like he would be riding down to the next state- imagine that you have to take a bus ride across half of the USA to get this paper that you already have, but didn't realize you needed to have some governmental official stamp that it was a legitimate paper.

Has ANYONE had experience with this?

Please share your thoughts and any similar situations so we can make a wise decision. Unfortunately he will NOT have any time off available so he can't just take off work, he'll have to resign his job and give notice, then ride across half of Central America to get the paper.

Ideas, please?? Thanks a ton in advance for the help.

Sorry I'm not sure exactly which forum to post this in, maybe Latin American forum would be best but not sure.

[payxibka 10,044]

Hmmmm... my wife got a PC from a foreign country and she did not have to get it apostilled...

Sounds strange... moving to Latin America forum

[meant2b2009 0]

Hi, Can he check in the Embassy or Consulate of Honduras here in Costa Rica, and if they do, check their time frames and see if they work fore you guys.

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Duplicate threads merged and duplicate post removed.

[Liz_Allan 0]

Hi, Can he check in the Embassy or Consulate of Honduras here in Costa Rica, and if they do, check their time frames and see if they work fore you guys.

Wow that would have been a good thing.... except the USA embassy in Honduras is supposed to authenticate it, so don't know if that would help.

Does make me think a little though.... wonder if he can call the Costa Rican US embassy and ask for their advice?

[meant2b2009 0]

Tell him to call both consulates, request info at the US Cosulate, maybe they can certify it, remember, every problem has a solution, we don´t think you´ll have a problem.

[B&P 0]

Now we are worried my fiancee is from Colombia originally but is a refugee living in Costa Rica. Im not sure what we should do! Will this samething come up in our case?

[meant2b2009 0]

Well it depends, is she here, and for how long, maybe you can request the documentation from the Colombian consulate, and then certified it, remember that every document needs to be sealed and stamp by the Ministry of Foreign affairs.

[Married2aTico 0]

I also sort of doubt this will be a big deal. Make sure you have it translated of course, like all the other documents. Unless they suspect his stay in Honduras, I doubt they will even look at that report more than a glance. After all, he was there as a student, right? Based on our previous convos, I think it's very obvious that neither of you are into illicit activities!

Keep in mind too that if they want to approve a case that has some missing pieces, they may just ask you to come back with what they want.