bluenoser77

I am in the same situation. I have to wait 2-4 months for a police clearance from Japan, but I'm wondering what will happen if my interview happens before the document gets here. I've heard in other places that you can still do the interview, but will not get the visa right away because you're application will be 'pending police clearance'.

Does anyone know if this is right? (Hope so!)

cheers.

I actually found another post that answers this question.

Cheers.

I would contact the Japanese consulate in Vietnam, ask them if the certificate would have to be collected in person or if it can be mailed to an address of your choice. If the latter, then simply provide your Canadian address. Explain your circumstance. If it's got to be collected in person, I would call the Vietnamese consulate in Canada (assuming this is where you're going in 1.5 months' time) and ask if the application for your police certificate has to be made in person, or does it consist of submitting a form and paying the fee. If this is just a 'submit the form via the consulate and collect in person' then you should be able to mail the form to a friend/ relative and ask them to forward/ deliver it to the consulate on your behalf.

Sorry, that should have said Japanese.. lol.

Thank you (and everyone else!) for your comments. I went to the Japanese consulate today in Hanoi. Good news and bad news. Good news is, I can have someone else pick it up for me and then mail it to me since I will probably leave before it's ready. Bad news is I have to find my old passport that holds the Japanese stamp and Visa (which was 3 passports ago), which should be somewhere in Canada deep in my stuff, hopefully.

Vietnamese one shouldn't be a problem. I already got one for my current work permit and it only took a day. canada's ok and Korea's out. I think I'm almost done.

My other question is: What forms am I required to send back right away from packet 3 in order to get my interview date, and which forms/paperwork can I prepare for the interview? Somebody mentioned above that I can still have an interview without the paperwork complete. It doesn't explain this anywhere in the packet 3, or on any US/Canadian embassy websites that I can see. Basically it's unclear to me what I am required to send back right away.

Thanks for any help.

You'll need at least 3 police certifications - often it is by country and not necessarily country and municipality. If one of the countries you lived was Germany, for example, you would only need one certification for the entire country (even if you lived in several of the 16 'states' within Germany.)

I can't speak directly to the Japan certification other than to suggest doing whatever you can while you are there.

What countries?:

• Canada (I presume)
• Japan (You mentioned)

Hi, and thanks for your response.

Canada, Japan, South Korea and Vietnam. My fiance read somewhere that Vietnam doesn't actually have these certificates and it might not be necessary/possible to get a certificate from here (I'm in Vietnam right now).

The State Department reciprocity list is your friend: http://travel.state.gov/visa/frvi/reciproc...ocity_3272.html

Choose a country from the drop-down list, and it will tell you how to obtain police certificates from that country from either inside or outside the country. More importantly, it will tell you whether it's even possible to obtain such certificates. If it says on the State Department site that a certificate from a given country is not available, then the consulate won't ask for it at the interview (consulates are, after all, part of the Department of State).

Off the top of my head, I can tell you that Korean police certificates (at least the kind that are acceptable for visa purposes) cannot be ordered from outside of Korea. Hence, the State Department considers them "unavailable." So there's one you can cross off your list.

(moving to Embassy and Consulate Discussion)

Wow, that's super useful for me. Thanks! Indeed it seems that south korea is off my list. I read somewhere that they could only be obtained in Korea and thought I might have to make a trip out of it. Pheww! Vietnam seems easy enough since I live here and am registered... Now Japan seems to be the stickler.

Thanks again.

Hi Everyone,

First time poster to visajourney.com. I am a US Citizen living in America. My girlfriend is a Canadian citizen living in Canada. Given her skillset, she is eligible for a TN visa. Despite this miserable miserable economy, she is lucky enough to have a company in the US willing to sponsor her TN as part of their offer.

My questions are these:

• We plan to marry one day and live in the US. Is it very risky for her to come down on a TN visa and live with me?
• When we marry, will it be difficult to adjust her status from a TN visa?
• Ultimately, would it just be best for her to decline the US job offer so that we can go through the standard K-1 fiancee visa in the future?

Of course the US job is a great opportunity for her, both professionally and personally. I really don't want to stop her from coming here. However, I want to be sure it doesn't cause trouble for us down the road.

Thank you for any advice!

I was in a similar situation with my fiance. Actually, I'm Canadian and as an educator was eligible for the TN. After looking into it, and knowing that some day (in the near future) we were going to become engaged and get married, we opted out. What it came down to was that we thought it might be too difficult to prove 'intentions'. Since we were together for about 5 years before we planned to move to the states, this would be difficult to prove (that I didn't enter the states with the intention of marrying). And actually, we simply wanted to be together until we got married, so in our case I guess it might have been wrong, or at least very difficult to prove that it wasn't.

I understand the balance between career and relationships, but the visa process is not very accommodating for this. I might consult a lawyer on this one. It might be ok, but you wouldn't want to cause yourself any problems in the future when you do decide to get engaged and get married. It's already complicated enough.

Good luck!

You don't have to complete DS-157 before sending out P3. DS-157 is not required to set up an interview date.

Write down the approx dates.

Hi,

How do you know which forms are necessary to send right away in order to get the interview process moving? My packet 3 doesn't explain this anywhere...

thanks.

You'll need at least 3 police certifications - often it is by country and not necessarily country and municipality. If one of the countries you lived was Germany, for example, you would only need one certification for the entire country (even if you lived in several of the 16 'states' within Germany.)

I can't speak directly to the Japan certification other than to suggest doing whatever you can while you are there.

What countries?:

• Canada (I presume)
• Japan (You mentioned)

Hi, and thanks for your response.

Canada, Japan, South Korea and Vietnam. My fiance read somewhere that Vietnam doesn't actually have these certificates and it might not be necessary/possible to get a certificate from here (I'm in Vietnam right now).

Hi there,

I have recently received my packet 3 for the K-1 visa app. On the checklist it states that I need police certificates from every locality where I've lived for a year or more since the age of 16.

I have lived in 3 different countries and 7 different cities in that period of time. Does this mean I have to attain 7 different police certificates? And if so, do I need to have this before I send in my packet 3?... or do I get the process started (this could takes months!), send in packet 3 and hope for the certificates to be ready by my interview?

To make things more complicated, I am currently living overseas for a period of a month and a half. After research on how to attain police certificates from Japan (only one of the countries), I've found through on online source that this could possibly take 2-3 months, applying personally at a consulate. Since I'm leaving here before that time, i won't be able to take advantage of the consulate here and I might have to wait to apply when I get back home. I'm really hoping someone can tell me that this isn't going to be as complicated as I think it could be. .... please???

Any insight or similar experiences appreciated. I've looked around for other posts on this topic and didn't find anything helpful, but if I've missed anything that's already on here, please guide me to it.

Thanks in advance for any help.

If your living there, why don't you file for a DCF? Skip the K-1 all together.

Yes, check out the DCF

You can file an I-129f while abroad but you need to have a permanent US address, which can be a relative.

Hi there,

Do you or anyone else out there know if it is the same for the beneficiary? We're trying to figure out what address to put on my protion of the I-129F form, my Canadian one, or my current address where I currently live and work (Vietnam). We will send our papers in this week or next, and I will be moving back to Canada by Christmas to wait for an interview. I would prefer to use my Canadian address, since I wouldn't have to bother with changing it. It is my parents' address and I consider it to be my perminent residence in Canada. I just don't want to mess up my application by providing 2 documents with conflicting info (I'm claiming to live in Vietnam presently on my G125A form.)

Any advice greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Hi there!

I'm also in a similar situation, I have a really long and scattered employment history with a few years of grad school in the mix. So does my fiance. I've skimmed through the posts in this thread and people have mentioned that they managed to fit in their whole employment history. But what if you can't actually fit it on the form for the last 5 years? Do we need another form, or do we attach an appendix. Does anyone know? I have the same problem with residences. I've lived in three countries in the last 5 years with a few months of travel here and there.

Thanks for any help.

PS: I'm Canadian applying to come in, so I don't think attaching tax records helps.