Police cert needed for one year non continuous residence?

[GTB 1]

Hi everyone,

 

My wife is filing ds260 now and we are in the process of getting all the required docs. The sticking point for us has become the police certs.  About 10 years ago she studied in Singapore for a total of 2 years. But during that time she went back and forth to her home in Vietnam about 7 times (preparing a student visa for the US actually). The problem is she lost her passport so we don't know what kind of visa she had in Singapore and thus we also don't have her FIN number which is required to make the application for a police cert in Singapore.

 

My question is two fold then.  First, if she was back and forth so much, and never there for a continuous year does she actually need the cert? Two, since we do not have the FIN number we may not be able to obtain the cert at all, can we write a sworn affidavit explaining the situation? Would that be satisfactory to the NVC? Or will they still require this elusive cert?

 

As an add on question, she won't need police certs for the 3 years she lived in the US on a student visa right?

 

Thanks so much everyone!

Edited February 7, 2020 by blawrenceg

[Clayera 28]

CEAC will automatically ask you for a Pol Cert for every place 12 months+once your wife is done filling her addresses since she was 16. A way she could do it could be to just make sure to break it up (ie. living in Singapore for 3 months between Jan-Mar 2010, Vietnam April 2010, Singapore May-Oct 2010)...as an example. Hope that is a way around it!

[GTB 1]

That's great, I wasn't sure if they would require the cert if the time added to a year or if it had to be continuous. She was definitely there for a total of over a year, but always 3 months here 3 there etc. I suppose it will get difficult to remember those dates and it might cause a problem because she got a student visa to the US during that time ten years ago and USCIS probably has better record of it than her

 

😢 

 

Thanks for your reply!

Edited February 8, 2020 by blawrenceg

[LilyJ 1,258]

NVC may or may not still ask for it, I would try and see if there is any possible way that you can receive a police cert in case they do, and if you really can't even after trying, then upload a letter explaining why you could not obtain a police cert (with proof from the issuing authority of Singapore themselves saying you can't) in the place of the police cert. As for the US, no police cert is needed, NVC already has all the access they need to those records