Police Report and Medical examination in HCMC

[luukee 18]

Hello VJ Saigon

I finally got my I-130 submitted and now trying to understand the next steps (hoping that everything goes well with my I-130 that is).

I was reading the guide(s), and I remember someone mentioning that one should look into the police reports and medical examination shortly after submitting the I-130. one of the advice was to check how early one should do the report and how long does that report last?

so I'm hoping you guys can help me with some questions that I have.

1. Where/when should we do the police report for my wife? Is it something that she just walks up to and request for one? or there's a specific one and there's a form request for it? How long is the report good for? Should she do it now? or before the interview?

2. For the Medical exam - same questions really? when/where should she do it? is it something she requests from a hospital/doctor? or is it a form given by the consulate ?

Thanks again guys

[T&T&T 31]

She will get her police report at Department of Justice located at 141-143 Pasteur St., Ward 6, Dist.3, HCMC,. The cost is 300,000 Vnd. It will be translated and deliver by mail. It is good for one year. Don't apply until your I-130 has been approved by USCIS. It will take one month or more to received your Case number. As soon as you get the noa 2 you should apply for the police report. As for the Medical you will get it after NVC has completed your case.

[luukee 18]

Thanks so much for the info T&T&T. For my wife's birth certificate, do we need to have it translated by a 3rd party? (From other posts, seems like it's only required to be translated by a 3rd party in China)

[T&T&T 31]

http://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/files/form/i-130instr.pdf

Translations. Any foreign language document must be accompanied by a full English translation that the translator has certified as complete and correct, and by the translator's certification that he or she is competent to translate the foreign language into English

[Ck207 35]

Any documents that not in Vietnamese or English will have to transfer into English . The CO are trained to understand all Vietnamese paper works. Beside that, you will not give her birth certificate directly for the CO who will interview you. You will ask to give for a Vietnamese person first . So there is no worry at all.

[luukee 18]

Thanks so much for the info guys!

[T&T&T 31]

Did you send a copy of a translated birth certificate with your I-130 package for your fiancée? That is required. For the interview your documents in Vietnamese for your fiancée do not need to be translated.
You now have time to relax before you get your approval from uscis... Use this time to gather your tax transcripts and be ready for your I-864. You can also gather the information your fiancée will need for her DS-260. I downloaded a PDF Ds-230 form and filled it out as it has most of the same information you will need for the online ds 260.

good luck

[luukee 18]

Did you send a copy of a translated birth certificate with your I-130 package for your fiancée? That is required. For the interview your documents in Vietnamese for your fiancée do not need to be translated.

You now have time to relax before you get your approval from uscis... Use this time to gather your tax transcripts and be ready for your I-864. You can also gather the information your fiancée will need for her DS-260. I downloaded a PDF Ds-230 form and filled it out as it has most of the same information you will need for the online ds 260.

good luck

my bad guys, I haven't had the chance to update my timeline. I'm going the CR-1 route, so I'm married already. But T&T&T, you brought up a good point, I better start finding all my tax stuff, when you say tax transcripts, is there a way to get those? or is can I just provide copies of my 1040?

I didn't sent a copy of my wife's birth certificate, because the guidelines had that part crossed out, I'm assuming they probably want to focus on the USC first and then the beneficiary ?

thanks again for the advice

[T&T&T 31]

Contact the IRS and request transcripts for the past three years. I am not sure if you can do it online or not. you can use transcripts for your I-864 or a copy of your 1040 for the most recent year and transcripts for the two previous years.

[luukee 18]

Contact the IRS and request transcripts for the past three years. I am not sure if you can do it online or not. you can use transcripts for your I-864 or a copy of your 1040 for the most recent year and transcripts for the two previous years.

Excellent tip! thank you!! This will be something as you've said that I need to concentrate on gathering.

[luukee 18]

Contact the IRS and request transcripts for the past three years. I am not sure if you can do it online or not. you can use transcripts for your I-864 or a copy of your 1040 for the most recent year and transcripts for the two previous years.

T&T&T, you're right -- was able to get transcripts from IRS online

[T&T&T 31]

great... you are on your way...

[luukee 18]

great... you are on your way...

Thanks again for the advice/tip!

[luckytxn 2,263]

Yeah I didn't know we could get our transcripts online now. Used to be we had to call a number and punch in a lot of numbers.

Thanks again for the advice/tip!

[luukee 18]

Yeah I didn't know we could get our transcripts online now. Used to be we had to call a number and punch in a lot of numbers.

Yeah I was pretty shocked that they even had that option. pretty nice, I would've called if no other option, but their verification system online is very nice...