Israeli Police Clearance Procedural Problem

[rider_009 0]

Hi All,

 

I am in the final stages of NVC processing and have received a request for several police clearances. The only one I have having trouble with is the one from Israel.

Here are the issues:

 

• The Israeli Embassy will not send any person a police clearance directly - only to US agencies/Consulate(s).
• The NVC instructions state that the police clearance should be sent to the US Consulate in Sydney.
• The Israeli embassy will not send my police clearance unless the US Sydney Consulate makes a request.
• I have requested the Sydney consulate email the Israeli Embassy to make the request, to which they responded:

"Thank you for your email. You may give the correspondence from the National Visa Center to the Israel Embassy. Unfortunately, we do not write directly to Embassies requesting any document on behalf of applicants."

 

• I emailed the Israeli embassy with the NVC document AND the included reply from the US Consulate, but they will not send it to the US Consulate, they will only send it to the NVC:

"If you want us to send it by post they need to request the police clearance.
They can send request by e-mail."

 

So, round and round we go.

Has anyone had to deal with a similiar situation? I am a non-Israeli citizen, applying for IR-1. NZ citizen currently living in Australia. Should I just wait until my NVC case gets forwarded to the Sydney Consulate, at which point they may submit the request to the Israeli Embassy?

 

Thanks!

Edited March 31, 2017 by rider_009

[rider_009 0]

To follow up, I had my interview yesterday at the Sydney Consulate. The interviewer asked if I had requested the police certificate and I explained to her the above events. She asked if I had any correspondence, luckily, I had printed out all emails with both the Israeli Embassy and the US Consulate, which I gave to her. She concluded saying she will request the document from the Israeli Embassy. Very glad for this outcome as I was worried about being stuck in a bureaucratic standoff/nightmare. Annoyed that the Israeli Embassy has taken this stance as it has caused unnecessary delay, and the US Consulate commented that they usually don't need to make a request.

Edited September 6, 2017 by rider_009