J & S Lewis

i might have my wires crossed, but i was told to wait till your at the NVC stage before getting the Police certificate as they are only valid for 6 months.

I believe it is a year

Hi, I also got my confirmation email saying it was received the on 30th april, and my certificate arrived this morning! I was also expecting a delay, so hopefully yours will arrive very soon.

Just a little advice about obtaining your police certificates!!

It is a lengthy process....so fill out your forms and send them off as soon as you get your text from the USCIS that your NOA2 has been approved, if not before because its coming up to a month and i still have not got them back.

Here is my journey to obtain one!!

18 April - Received NOA2 acceptance

19 April - I downloaded the forms and filled them out

20 April - Went to get passport photographs done

26 April - I received my Photograph Endorsement form and photograph back

27 April - Sent package off to ACRO Portsmouth

30 April - ACRO received my package

13 May - Received email saying "It will now be dealt with in accordance with the published guidelines"

So i guess they still have to do their checks and admin stuff and then send me it in the usual snail mail here in the UK, so another 5 days and it will be exactly one month till i finally get my police certificate, that's if it gets here in the 5 days!! I sent an email this morning asking what the turn a round time would be but still waiting for a reply!!

I paid £45 fee for the standard service, which they state is 10 working day turnaround, not including dates of receipt or dispatch, but that's 2 weeks once they receive it, in my case i had to wait nearly 2 weeks before they even looked at it! with getting photo endorsed, sending and receiving it wont be short of a month. This is the only document i need before phoning for my medical and sending off the forms needed by the London Embassy!!

So my suggestion to everybody is you want the certificate sooner is pay the £80 for premier service and a 2 day turn around but that's only when they start processing it not for the whole process and i guess it also depends if you have a criminal record or not!!, which i dont

I will updateand let everyone know when i actually get the certificate in my hands!!

You did it exactly as London prefers.

Get your forms in immediately.

Gather your interview documents and have the medical.

Send the DS-2001 to let them know you are ready to interview because you have all documents in hand.

Thank you for the confirmation! I read so many posts saying such conflicting information, like sending all forms together, and bringing the ds160 to interview etc,

I'm so glad to know i've done it correctly, thank you.

Also, as a stroke of luck, my police certificate arrived this morning just after I posted here!!

I was beginning to worry about delays, but I got mine today after being received on the 30th april.

I went ahead and booked my medical, and was surprised to get an appointment so quickly for next thursday!

It's so refreshing for everything to now be moving ahead after such long delays for the noa2.

Thanks again

I'm in the same position regarding the police certificate. I got an email 10 days after sending saying the same thing...that it will now be processed.

In the meantime I sent off all the forms except the ds2001, with a cover note saying I will send in the ds2001 once i am in receipt of the police certificate and my fiancee's documents.

I wrestled with holding off on sending the forms until i could sent everything, but after reading the official instructions about a hundred times, it does state to send stage one in asap, then stage two as soon as the documents are in hand.

I did a lot of forum searching, and found a few post whereby others have also done it this way.

Hang in there guys! Looks like csc are going all out to process the backlog!

Question, how did Igor's list know before I updated our timeline?

my fiancee phoned me just now , we got approved! august 20th noa1 april 20th noa2!

I have six goats, six steers, 4 ducks, half a dozen chickens and a dog. Would any of these do?

CSC will be responsible for a lot of bruised livestock ...

In fairness, I hear some CSC staff are waiting for their N.O.D.A. 2 (Notice Of Donkey Hoof up the ####)

Spirit of the blitz, people.... spirit of the blitz

You have a camel?

First, I will find a camel... I think it will be an easier task than having an August petition approved

:thumbs:

You will probably get your Noa2 before us!

If this arc doesn't start going the other way soon...I'm going to throw a camel through a wall.

CSC cleared their backlog in one foul flush, hence the 'plumbing issues, now they are back to working under 5 months again! Easy as that! I think if this trend continues to the end of this week and we see 4-5 November/December approvals daily, there will certainly be something fairly suspect going on at CSC. Also they do seem to take at least a week or two to notify anyone of case load transfer, perhaps that has happened and post October cases have gone somewhere else?

There's no truth to the flooding issue, please stop posting such when there's no reason to upset July-Oct filers.

Jonathan Lewis: Families like Claudia's should have prepared themselves with the correct immigration procedures, it is a disgrace that legal citizen's are having to wait 8 months instead of 5 for K1 fiancee visa approval, because of this motion has jumped to the head of the line.

Do you think the size of the packets have anything to do with it? Might sound stupid, but if they have targets then you'd think they would go for the smaller ones to process asap and hit the targets. Then again, They aren't hitting any targets so probably not. Just trying to find logic with it.

We sent the same amount of evidence as outlined in VJ's instructions. I edited the photocopied evidence for each section so that it would fit on one or two pages, and also included a cover note for each section. We included 5 photo as outlined. Maybe 10 pages max.

We didn't add more than was required, and thought it best to include exactly what is required to avoid getting an RFE.

The complete package was a good 2 inches thick, we assumed this would be normal?

August 20th noa1 here