US Embassy access to criminal database in the UK
May 8th 2007, 7:08 am
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US Embassy access to criminal database in the UK
Does the US Embassy in major cities such as London have the facilities
to access criminal record database held by the police and home office?
I have a conviction for common assault which took place 25 years ago
( i pushed a Steward during a Anti apartheid demonstration outside the
South African Embassy in London). I was wondering whether this would
show up on any database that the US Embassy in London has access to.
My other question is if i declare the conviction at the US Embassy,
would it be regarded as a minor offence and if so would i be able to
get my J1 visa without the unnecessary wait for a waiver, which i
heard could take 2 months?
Many thanks for your help and advice
Ray
to access criminal record database held by the police and home office?
I have a conviction for common assault which took place 25 years ago
( i pushed a Steward during a Anti apartheid demonstration outside the
South African Embassy in London). I was wondering whether this would
show up on any database that the US Embassy in London has access to.
My other question is if i declare the conviction at the US Embassy,
would it be regarded as a minor offence and if so would i be able to
get my J1 visa without the unnecessary wait for a waiver, which i
heard could take 2 months?
Many thanks for your help and advice
Ray
May 8th 2007, 11:40 am
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Re: US Embassy access to criminal database in the UK
Does the US Embassy in major cities such as London have the facilities
to access criminal record database held by the police and home office?
I have a conviction for common assault which took place 25 years ago
( i pushed a Steward during a Anti apartheid demonstration outside the
South African Embassy in London). I was wondering whether this would
show up on any database that the US Embassy in London has access to.
My other question is if i declare the conviction at the US Embassy,
would it be regarded as a minor offence and if so would i be able to
get my J1 visa without the unnecessary wait for a waiver, which i
heard could take 2 months?
Many thanks for your help and advice
Ray
to access criminal record database held by the police and home office?
I have a conviction for common assault which took place 25 years ago
( i pushed a Steward during a Anti apartheid demonstration outside the
South African Embassy in London). I was wondering whether this would
show up on any database that the US Embassy in London has access to.
My other question is if i declare the conviction at the US Embassy,
would it be regarded as a minor offence and if so would i be able to
get my J1 visa without the unnecessary wait for a waiver, which i
heard could take 2 months?
Many thanks for your help and advice
Ray
May 8th 2007, 12:16 pm
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Re: US Embassy access to criminal database in the UK
But you must declare everything ...its not that serious ...
May 8th 2007, 7:55 pm
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Re: US Embassy access to criminal database in the UK
On May 8, 12:08 am, [email protected] wrote:
> Does the US Embassy in major cities such as London have the facilities
> to access criminal record database held by the police and home office?
> I have a conviction for common assault which took place 25 years ago
> ( i pushed a Steward during a Anti apartheid demonstration outside the
> South African Embassy in London). I was wondering whether this would
> show up on any database that the US Embassy in London has access to.
Impossible to say.
> My other question is if i declare the conviction at the US Embassy,
> would it be regarded as a minor offence
Almost certainly.
> and if so would i be able to
> get my J1 visa without the unnecessary wait for a waiver, which i
> heard could take 2 months?
If the wait is unnecessary, why would you wait?
It's generally very foolish to lie to US authorities about visa and
immigration matters. It's extremely difficult to know whether or not
you'll be found out, and they generally get much more upset about
having been lied to than about whatever the lie concerned. A lie now
could be caught out any time in the future, and cause you great
problems.
> Does the US Embassy in major cities such as London have the facilities
> to access criminal record database held by the police and home office?
> I have a conviction for common assault which took place 25 years ago
> ( i pushed a Steward during a Anti apartheid demonstration outside the
> South African Embassy in London). I was wondering whether this would
> show up on any database that the US Embassy in London has access to.
Impossible to say.
> My other question is if i declare the conviction at the US Embassy,
> would it be regarded as a minor offence
Almost certainly.
> and if so would i be able to
> get my J1 visa without the unnecessary wait for a waiver, which i
> heard could take 2 months?
If the wait is unnecessary, why would you wait?
It's generally very foolish to lie to US authorities about visa and
immigration matters. It's extremely difficult to know whether or not
you'll be found out, and they generally get much more upset about
having been lied to than about whatever the lie concerned. A lie now
could be caught out any time in the future, and cause you great
problems.
May 9th 2007, 8:13 pm
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Re: US Embassy access to criminal database in the UK
On Tue, 08 May 2007 12:16:20 +0000, Ray wrote:
>
>> Sigh. Well for many visas, you have to obtain a police certificate,
>> and show it to them. Of course, you have now told the entire world
>> about it on the internet, and who's to say USCIS isn't reading it too.
>
> Your police certificate if required goes back around 10 years usually...
Although I'm not sure that police certificates exist any more - isn't it
exclusively CRB checks these days (from the UK perspective)?
Annoyingly I needed a CRB check done for some work last year, I'm going to
need another one for some other work in the next month or so, and my US
finacee and I are going through the I-129F process at present, so I assume
I'm going to need a third for that. Bureaucracy? Noooo.. :-)
I seem to remember both PC and CRB check taking about a month to process
(I needed a PC for something a few years ago too).
cheers
Jules
>
>> Sigh. Well for many visas, you have to obtain a police certificate,
>> and show it to them. Of course, you have now told the entire world
>> about it on the internet, and who's to say USCIS isn't reading it too.
>
> Your police certificate if required goes back around 10 years usually...
Although I'm not sure that police certificates exist any more - isn't it
exclusively CRB checks these days (from the UK perspective)?
Annoyingly I needed a CRB check done for some work last year, I'm going to
need another one for some other work in the next month or so, and my US
finacee and I are going through the I-129F process at present, so I assume
I'm going to need a third for that. Bureaucracy? Noooo.. :-)
I seem to remember both PC and CRB check taking about a month to process
(I needed a PC for something a few years ago too).
cheers
Jules
