Criminal Check Issue

[ChinaViaChicago 1]

So we have gotten all the documents for my wife's green card. The issue is that in China where she has lived for the last 7 years, they require a passport for the criminal check but my wife lost hers in 2018 and got a new one.  They will not give you a criminal check for a passport you don't have and they don't have a system where previous passports are stored.  They told her that when she went today.   So they can only give her a criminal check from 2018-now because she lost the her previous passport.  Is this going to screw everything up?

Edited April 20, 2021 by ChinaViaChicago

[Sukie 1,439]

You will need to explain this situation when you submit your documents.  If you can get ANYTHING in writing where Chinese officials tell you that it is impossible, that will help.  If not, try to find some webpage where they clearly say that they can only provide police certificates for CURRENT passports.  Be sure to tell the story that your wife went to <office/official department> on <date> and she was told <what you explained above>.

 

Best of luck.

 

Sukie in NY

 

 

[ReasonableOrange8 11]

11 hours ago, ChinaViaChicago said:

So we have gotten all the documents for my wife's green card. The issue is that in China where she has lived for the last 7 years, they require a passport for the criminal check but my wife lost hers in 2018 and got a new one.  They will not give you a criminal check for a passport you don't have and they don't have a system where previous passports are stored.  They told her that when she went today.   So they can only give her a criminal check from 2018-now because she lost the her previous passport.  Is this going to screw everything up?

Is your wife Chinese (mainland) and resides in Mainland China for the last 7 years? 

• Chinese in China, she wanna look up her entry/exit records in the police department branch (not the police station in a community). They use her national ID number to look up all entry/exit records. In the records there, it shows every passport / permits used to enter and exit China for however many years she'd request.

1. Not Chinese in China, you will need to find out the passport number from the immigration department in the issuing country.

[ChinaViaChicago 1]

1 hour ago, ReasonableOrange8 said:

Is your wife Chinese (mainland) and resides in Mainland China for the last 7 years? 

• Chinese in China, she wanna look up her entry/exit records in the police department branch (not the police station in a community). They use her national ID number to look up all entry/exit records. In the records there, it shows every passport / permits used to enter and exit China for however many years she'd request.

1. Not Chinese in China, you will need to find out the passport number from the immigration department in the issuing country.

She is Egyptian.  We have a photo copy Of the lost passport bio page.  But, as per Beijing/China rules, you must physically have all passports containing all residence permits on you in order to obtain a Police Criminal Check.  They don’t track anything via your passport number, only your residence permit number.  China also doesn’t have a centralized system for criminal records.  It’s all local to each city  and district in each city.  I don’t get how it is this way but that’s what we have to work with.  Getting anything in writing from them is also next to impossible.  We will have to write a letter stating we have tried and that the 2013-early 2018 will be unobtainable.