hifalam

Thank you for the prompt assistance and clarifications.

Regards and best wishes,

Alamgir

Hello everyone,

I have an important query with regards to the police certificate requirement for NVC.

I have spent approximately 5 years abroad in England between 1997 and 2001 on a student visa. i studied for a Bsc Hons degree in Business administration at Cardiff university of wales and then went on to do my Msc Marketing from Manchester university. during this time i made regular visits back home to Pakistan though i did live at a stretch in cardiff and Manchester for more than 1 year stretches in university accomodation.

due to my status as a student i was not authorized to work in England and hence did not engage in any part time jobs either. my concern is that if i am asked to produce a police certificate from england how do i go about it since i never registered with the police over there ( it is not a legal requirement for foreign students ) and i never had any cause to interact with them.

since i am now based in and working in my home country of Pakistan, i will be more than happy to present the pakistani police certificate. my concern is what do i do about the british police certificates. can i submit copies of my degrees to show that i graduated successfully and had no problems with the law. the other alternative is to get standardised letters from my universities indicating that i was a student at their respective universities and graduated successfully.

i currently have a valid visitor visa for the UK and the worst case scenario will be that i visit England and get some sort of a police clearance certificate from both cities. This will be extremely expensive and a very hectic option to undertake.

your valuable help or opinions regarding this matter would be highly appreciated.

Regards and best wishes,

Alamgir

Thank you for your support everyone.

surprisingly the i130 approval came without any touches or case status updates despite the fact that we had registered for the email notifications. after a couple of months of virtually no updates or movement i checked the case status on the uscis site and was pleasantly surprised to see that it stated that the case status was approved.

we were a bit confused whether we should pursue the i130 route or follow the K3 since according to the timelines our k3 approval should come through in around 3.5 months while the NVC steps will pretty much take around the same time. we have however, decided to follow the i130 and also let the k3 take its natural course.

best of luck to all of you.

Regards and best wishes,

Alamgir

Hello everyone,

i am new to the forum and would like to extend my appreciation to all of you for doing a wonderful job in helping, guiding and encouraging each other through this rather long winded process.

we got our I130 approval on March 20, 2008 and are now wating for the NVC Process to start.

wishing all of you the very best in being reunited with your loved ones in the shortest possible time.

Regards and best wishes,

Alamgir