Gigiola

First, thanks Sibsie for your help yesterday. I breathed much easier after your PMs!

Secondly, you don't use either the 3019A or 3019B.

I decided to mail Manchester Police and find out exactly what the proceedure was. You can imagine my face when I received a mail back from them in a couple of hours!!! They included full instructions, and two attachments .. the foreign application letter and form 815, which is a slightly longer version.

Of course I also mailed the british consulate here in Palma to inform them that everything they had told me was false and to advise them what they SHOULD be telling anyone else in my position !!!

The file is slowly getting fatter! Jill

Gigiola

Oh .. and ...

Received NOA1 for 129F and still haven't received confirmation of delivery for 129F from USPS !! My H is NOT pleased!

sibsie

Glad to hear you're ploughing through it. My police cert was with the Met and they just have the standard application if you're applying from overseas.

Amazingly for Spain, the Spanish police cert was really straightforward and very quick.

meauxna

Interesting, because we went through the same thing and had to get someone in the UK to write a cheque (hey, it was the UK) for us and were given special permission to send copies of passport etc for ID.

Greece's cert was too easy also... we actually could order it over the phone!

Gigi, maybe you should write up a new procedure for the FAQ on how to get the UK cert whilst overseas? It could be your lasting legacy!!

Gigiola

"Gigi, maybe you should write up a new procedure for the FAQ on how to get the UK cert whilst overseas? It could be your lasting legacy!!"

Ummm .. how do I do that?

There's a date on the ref for this form 03/2004 so that might be why you did something different, Sibsie.

meauxna

Write up what you did, outlined as instruction that someone else could follow, post it here for comment & we'll submit to the FAQ keeper
You know, procedure, numbers you called, how you paid... all the hard parts.

Gigiola

lololol .. ok .. will do tomorrow!

sibsie

When I applied for mine back in Jan this year, I had to get my father to do the cheque for me as it could only be a sterling cheque. They were insistant that the docs sent as ID were originals. In the end I got mine notarised by the British Consulate which they reluctantly accepted.

Gigiola

When I was last in UK (10 days ago) I went to my local village station. They, of course, knew nothing but called up someone in Manchester who, at the time, confused me further! But, he DID say that they would take notorized copies and that my bank could notorize.

Perhaps I ought to write this up when I've got the certificate in my hands!

sibsie

It does vary a bit from force to force but the Met police wanted a translation with the notarised copies and they wanted that translation notarised. That notarisation would have to have been translated and I'd have ended up with a whole chain of notarisations and translations! The British consulate was way easier!

cindyabs

Please do!!!

Gigiola

That notarisation would have to have been translated and I'd have ended up with a whole chain of notarisations and translations! The British consulate was way easier![/QUOTE]

lolol ... What I've always done up to now is to prepared the notorization myself in english and just get the bank to sign where I say!

I write something like:

This is to certify that this is a true copy of the original "passport, birthcertificate etc" that was presented to me on (date).
Name
Position
Name, address and telephone number of bank
DNI
Signature
Bank Stamp

We'll find out soon enough if I'm wrong as I've just mailed them again to ask if this will be sufficient, and also to ask what someone who doesn't have a UK checking account should do.

Gigiola

UK POLICE REPORT


Went to “greater Manchester police� on search
Followed link for Freedom of information


Mail was [email protected] which will only apply to Manchester. I wrote explaining why I needed the information, gave them my full name, last address in UK, address here and mail addy.
Return mail from them within a couple of hours with two attachments:

Foreign Application Letter.doc
Form 815 (03.2003).pdf

Both these files are too large to allow me to link???

I only filled out the first two sections of the form requesting PNC conviction history and ticked the box "computer information". (Hope I'm right here but the 3rd section asks you for details about any offence or incident you are looking for, and I have no details to give them!!!)

Had photocopies of birth certificate and passport certified at bank here. Form has to be signed by someone who has known you for at least one year. I used same lady at bank.

Wrote out cheque for 10 GBP and sent to address on form and voila! (I hope!)

sibsie

I asked the Met that and they said there was nothing they could do about it. The only option would be to speak to your bank and see if they have a recriprocal bank in the UK. It has to be drawn on a UK account and not just a cheque in sterling. They don't make it easy do they!

CalgaryAMC

I got the same stellar treatment from Greater Manchester police. I called them on the phone, spoke to a very nice lady who took down my email address and emailed me the forms in about 10 minutes. I was extremely impressed. Really really impressed.

But yes, actually getting all the stuff together was a chore. I could tell my doctor was not impressed when I rocked up wanting him to sign a form; but you do what you have to do.