ACROs required for L1 and L2 interview
Apr 23rd 2019, 10:24 pm
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ACROs required for L1 and L2 interview
Hi all,
I'll be scheduling my appointment at the embassy in the coming weeks (individual petition has been approved and DS-160 will be submitted this week or next) but I'm struggling to clarify on my own whether an ACRO is required for L1 or L2 appointments.
In their guidance it states:
I could read that two ways; 1) you must furnish an ACRO IF you have ever been arrested etc, or 2) you are required to declare any citations AND furnish an ACRO.
I've also read conflicting comments that an ACRO must be provided for any country you've ever lived for 6+ months. I lived in Australia for a couple of years and my wife is French so if that is true we'd need to get ACROs from there and also get the French one translated?
Anyone with recent experience able to provide guidance? Thanks!
I'll be scheduling my appointment at the embassy in the coming weeks (individual petition has been approved and DS-160 will be submitted this week or next) but I'm struggling to clarify on my own whether an ACRO is required for L1 or L2 appointments.
In their guidance it states:
If you have ever been arrested, cautioned, convicted you are required to declare it, even if it is considered spent and furnish a police certificate known as an ACRO
I've also read conflicting comments that an ACRO must be provided for any country you've ever lived for 6+ months. I lived in Australia for a couple of years and my wife is French so if that is true we'd need to get ACROs from there and also get the French one translated?
Anyone with recent experience able to provide guidance? Thanks!
Apr 23rd 2019, 10:45 pm
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Re: ACROs required for L1 and L2 interview
If you have criminal histories then yes.
Apr 24th 2019, 3:45 am
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You WILL need to show your acro, acro is a police report. Yours will come as saying ‘no trace’. It’ll prove you have no criminal histories ,you won’t need a subject access report as that is what you need if you do have a criminal history and it details what the criminal activity was. So yes you need. We applied for one for my husband myself and my daughter who is 17. You do need to show your acro police report otherwise they will have no way of knowing whether you do or don’t have a criminal record? Hope that helps. You need to get police reports from every country you have stayed in. It’s a pain in the arse but it’s got to be done . There should be an option to Fastrak delivery for these there is for the British one
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Apr 24th 2019, 5:34 am
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Re: ACROs required for L1 and L2 interview
You WILL need to show your acro, acro is a police report. Yours will come as saying ‘no trace’. It’ll prove you have no criminal histories ,you won’t need a subject access report as that is what you need if you do have a criminal history and it details what the criminal activity was. So yes you need. We applied for one for my husband myself and my daughter who is 17. You do need to show your acro police report otherwise they will have no way of knowing whether you do or don’t have a criminal record? Hope that helps. You need to get police reports from every country you have stayed in. It’s a pain in the arse but it’s got to be done . There should be an option to Fastrak delivery for these there is for the British one
Apr 24th 2019, 5:51 am
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I don't believe this to be true for L1 visas or any other non-immigrant visas UNLESS you have a criminal history. I for one definitely did NOT supply an ACRO when I moved on an L1 in 2015 and I know countless others who haven't either. Can you clarify what visa you arrived on?
Apr 24th 2019, 5:57 am
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Re: ACROs required for L1 and L2 interview
Just be careful is all I would say. NVC require the police cert.
read post 14 on this thread and 15!
L1A visa - ACRO Certificate
read post 14 on this thread and 15!
L1A visa - ACRO Certificate
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Apr 24th 2019, 6:23 am
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Re: ACROs required for L1 and L2 interview
EB3 is an immigrant visa, therefore upon entry you are deemed a permanent resident, L1 is a non-immigrant visa. They are governed by different rules, immigrant visas require medical and background checks, non-immigrant visas traditionally do not. Please research this before incorrectly advising folks.
Apr 24th 2019, 6:48 am
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Oh I see! Sorry my bad, I remembered L1 as an immigrant visa but it LEADS to immigrant visa, okay you WILL need them at that stage if ur going for it 
i just hate immigration, sometimes what they say is not always what they mean, like in Canada, CIC ‘ticked off everything on the document checklist?’ ,me: ‘yes!’ Cic: well where’s such n such form??’ Me: It wasn’t on the F******g document checklist!??
i just hate immigration, sometimes what they say is not always what they mean, like in Canada, CIC ‘ticked off everything on the document checklist?’ ,me: ‘yes!’ Cic: well where’s such n such form??’ Me: It wasn’t on the F******g document checklist!??
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Apr 24th 2019, 7:00 am
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Maybe ‘wary’ is a better word, not hate.
Apr 24th 2019, 7:25 am
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Re: ACROs required for L1 and L2 interview
Oh I see! Sorry my bad, I remembered L1 as an immigrant visa but it LEADS to immigrant visa, okay you WILL need them at that stage if ur going for it
i just hate immigration, sometimes what they say is not always what they mean, like in Canada, CIC ‘ticked off everything on the document checklist?’ ,me: ‘yes!’ Cic: well where’s such n such form??’ Me: It wasn’t on the F******g document checklist!??
i just hate immigration, sometimes what they say is not always what they mean, like in Canada, CIC ‘ticked off everything on the document checklist?’ ,me: ‘yes!’ Cic: well where’s such n such form??’ Me: It wasn’t on the F******g document checklist!??
I went through both an L1a and EB1c, and never had to provide any police certificate or similar, so unless something changed since 2010-2011 I think that is only a requirement for people who have been arrested / convicted etc, not everyone.
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Apr 24th 2019, 8:05 am
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Apr 24th 2019, 12:39 pm
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Update: once I submitted DS-160 and created an account for the appointment, I got the following confirmation that ACRO is only required if you have something to report:
Note: Applicants who have been arrested, cautioned or convicted are required to bring an ACRO Police Certificate from the ACPO Criminal Records Office to their interview. Please take the time to review the information at https://uk.usembassy.gov/visas/ineli...-and-waivers-2 If you do not bring the ACRO and VCU 1, you will experience considerable delays in the processing of your application
Apr 24th 2019, 2:18 pm
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Re: ACROs required for L1 and L2 interview
AIUI a police certificate is always necessary if you are applying for an immigrant visa (i.e. application from outside the USA). If you enter the USA on non-immigrant visa the police certificate is only needed if you have been arrested, cautioned or convicted. If you remain in the USA and do adjustment of status from non-immigrant to legal permanent resident a police certificate is not required if you have no criminal record. I don't know what the situation would be if you entered as on a non-immigrant visa with a waiver and then applied to adjust status to LPR.
Apr 24th 2019, 2:19 pm
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Re: ACROs required for L1 and L2 interview
L is a non immigrant visa, Police Reports and Medicals do not normally apply.