Matt&Court

9 hours ago, nelmagriffin said:

I hope someone has their personal experience, but this is what I found. Or you might want to give them a call The US Embassy in UK.

This may help you: Reference:

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/Visa-Reciprocity-and-Civil-Documents-by-Country/NewZealand.html

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Police Certificates

To obtain a New Zealand Police clearance certificate for U.S. Immigration, you must download and sign a Section 14 ‘overseas’ form available on the New Zealand Police Vetting Service website, http://www.police.govt.nz/advice/businesses-and-organisations/vetting/vetting-process-visas.

When you complete the form, please indicate that the criminal record is being requested for the United States of America and reference the three-letter ten-digit case number (e.g. ACK followed by 10 numbers for Auckland) or A#.  The postal address is U.S. Consulate General, Immigrant Visa Section, Private Bag 92022, Auckland, New Zealand.

You should email the completed request form to the Police Vetting Service at vetting@police.govt.nz."

Thanks for the reply. I gathered the same thing from that so have already done so as of last Friday. Sadly no response so far, nor do I know what happens next.

I will likely call the embassy tomorrow if I hear nothing overnight. 

I’d love to speak to someone with the same experience because it seems so unclear.

Hi there, 

I’m hoping someone can help me out with confirming what I need next?

I require a police certificate from 8 months I spent in NZ, living with my fiancé on a working holiday visa.

I am UK resident, filing for a k-1 in London. 

When looking for what to do I can’t find a definitive answer as the NZ police checks are automatically part of their K-1 process.

As such, I have applied to the Ministry of Justice for a Record Check and filed a Section 14 Vetting Form from Police NZ.

If anyone could confirm whether either of these are what’s needed, what happens next or just more information, it would be greatly appreciated.

Regards, 

Matt

9 minutes ago, geowrian said:

You used the wrong link. That's for immigrant visas. See the Fiancee visa page on their website:

https://uk.usembassy.gov/visas/fiancee-2/required-documents/

"Required for all countries where you have lived for more than 6 months since the age of 16 and any country where you have been arrested, even if you were not resident there."

 

Sorry, but the CO has to follow the law and policies. It's not their job to care if you didn't know (even if the website actually had been wrong).

Case Closed! I don’t know how I got to that rather than the page I was supposed to be on. I can’t tell you how many times I closed off and reloaded to double check. 

I said the exact same thing to my officer, “I know it’s not your fault and you have to follow the rules”. She still wasn’t too friendly towards me even from the start. But everyone else there was great.

11 minutes ago, shumway88 said:

Yes, it is 6 months, but it's no doubt incredibly frustrating when an official government website (like the embassy) presents inaccurate information. I'm sorry that you ran into this. I would definitely default to the travel.state.gov site (as some have linked above) moving forward to be safe.

Thank you! I will be sure to use that instead in the future.

Seems like everyone but me knew it was 6 months. I was following the London’s embassy page which is linked to in the K-1 letter.

https://uk.usembassy.gov/visas/family-immigration/required-documents/

I see now on other websites that it states 6 months. They informed me this was a new update with London as of April 2018.

33 minutes ago, AnaidAaron said:

Hi, I'm sorry this happened you, whoever, you shouldn't have just trusted this site only as not everything is updated, but instead, read the infomation directly from the source. On this official website, under required documentation, it says very clearly it is 6 months, this is the general information for applications worldwide.

 

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/family-immigration/nonimmigrant-visa-for-a-fiance-k-1.html#6

 

I hope your applications goes through soon. 

Thanks for sending me that. It does clearly state there however unfortunately I was going directly off the UK embassy which I was told to follow in my letter.

https://uk.usembassy.gov/visas/family-immigration/required-documents/

I really wish I had seen that before to save my heartache.

Matt

Hi guys,

Just has my K-1 interview today and it did not go well. Apparently since April 2018 if you have lived in another country for more than 6 months (no longer 12) you will need a police report from that country. Unfortunately for me it still states 12 months online and I had spent 8 months living in New Zealand. The interviewer I was unlucky enough to get could not care less and I am frustratingly now stuck waiting up to another 6 weeks to get this sorted.

I have let the website administrator know their information is out of date, as I truly hope this affects no one else.

All the best with your applications.

Matt