Shit. I certainly didn't read that and my police certificate was issued in July 2020 aswell. I thought it just had to be valid for the interview and the medical was the expiring factor for entry.
Guess I'll be requesting a new one.....
DV 2021 Oceania Selectees
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Guess I'll be requesting a new one.....
In case anyone else has this question: it is 1 per case.
"When You Should Travel - You must arrive and apply for admission in the United States no later than the visa expiration date printed on your visa. A diversity visa is usually valid for up to six months from the date of issuance unless your medical examination expires sooner, which may make your visa valid for less than six months. "
Thats taken from the main travel.state.gov site.
Where did you find the reference to the police certificate?
BritSimon talks about this issue all the time. Plus:
"Important: Police certificates expire after one year, unless the certificate was issued from your country of previous residence and you have not returned there since the police certificate was issued. If at the time of your interview the following three items are all true, you must bring a new police certificate to your visa interview:"
I copied that from: https://travel.state.gov/content/tr...ersity-visa-prepare-supporting-documents.html
Ok thanks. Yep I've seen that reference and my police certificate won't be expired for the interview.
'll try to find a britsimon video where he mentions it. I might also give the consulate a call to triple check.
Does that mean you can submit a Police Certificate to the KCC when asked for Supporting Documents, and if that police certificate expires, you can use a new police certificate in the interview i.e. the police certificate doesn't have to be the same one for KCC review and the Interview?
Definitely apply for the other one. I had my interview today and I had the ‘standard disclosure’ (which I sure was correct) and today I was denied because it was the wrong one. The gentleman who was interviewing me was very kind about it and said it happens often. He ensured me once I have my new police certificate and email it to them, I would be approved. In these uncertain times, any delay is a bit scary- so while you can, try to get it sorted before the interviewThanks for all the advice guys I think I will apply for the other one just in case, mine were also approved but better safe than sorry!
I'm also a big worrier and the new cases/ restrictions on Melbourne are making me concerned the borders might close to NSW
My fight or flight is telling me to impulsively fly up today just in case but I would miss some important things at work and my covid vaccine appointment
anyone in the same boat? am I overreacting haha
Good luck with it all.
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Wow. Ok my certificate says 'standard disclosure'. So the correct one should say 'complete disclosure' ???
If you order a new one now it will say:
"Immigration/Citizenship - Australia
Name Check Only"
The AFP changed the header for reason code 33 in December 2020. Before then it read:
“Complete Disclosure
All recorded offenses released
Name Check Only”
If you're not sure, you can call the AFP and they can check your order to see which reason code you requested. They picked up immediately when I phoned and they were easy to deal with.
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Yeah, that's what I did and it was fine. Just take both to your interview.
Green&Gold
Active Member
Maybe someone can clarify, I had my police certificated issues on the 29th of January 2021
It says Immigration / Citizenship - Australia Name Check Only
"This is to certify that there are no disclosable court outcomes recorded against the name of:"
Is this acceptable?
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Mine was ordered in July 2020 and says
"Standard disclosure
All recorded unspent offences released
Name check only"
I think im going to order a new one. I still have a month before my interview so have time. I dont want to turn up to my interview with the wrong certificate!
That's correct!
Good call, definitely get a new one!
Britsimon
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I have never said the police cert needs to be of any particular age at entry. The rules are applied as of the time of interview - and the CO has some latitude about the age of the police certs. As mentioned above they are considered valid up to 12 months, and will be accepted older than that in the case of a previously visited country.
I have never known a case where the visa validity was shortened because of police cert validity. It is always based on the medical report (medical plus 6 months), and the only time I have known it to be less than 6 months is for certain health conditions. There was a suggestion in one of the lawsuits that Russian cases were commonly being given 3 month validity, but I myself have not seen cases like that - and I think it was a misunderstanding.
I have also never known a case where there was a problem at entry because of a police cert being out of date - and certainly that would have been the case in many of the Gomez case issuances that are being allowed to enter with expired visas, and now very old police certs.
Thanks @Britsimon
Fair enough, sorry about that. I had somehow gotten the impression that if I attended an interview with a police check dated 01/01/20 the latest that the visa could be valid for was 01/01/21. Obviously that was wrong.
Britsimon
Super Moderator
No problem!
Hi! The Auckland consulate has requested the following as part of the list of documents to be submitted prior to interview: 'Evidence of your own funds/assets'. I'm not entirely sure what to send beyond bank statements, is this possibly relating to the public charge questionnaire, should we be submitting that with our documents?
AshleyMarleyNZ
Active Member
I just went to the bank and got balance print outs of my cheque and savings account, the bank stamped and signed them. Plus a balance print out of my KiwiSaver account. Bank accounts totaled 26k and KiwiSaver totaled 18k. That was accepted, the consular officer didn’t mention a single thing about finances in my actual interview!