ForumTitleContentMemberSexCountryDate/Time
United KingdomNetherlands Police Certificate
Hi All,

We find ourselves in a bit of a pickle at the moment whilst we get all our documents ready to file the I-130 next month in London.

My Husband lived in the Netherlands for over a year, ending in 2001. As I understand it, the US Embassy in London will aquire the police certificate from the Netherlands for us, we just need to provide:

Applicant's full name(s) including aliases:
Date, city/town and country of birth;
Complete address of last residence in The Netherlands

(from the State website: http://travel.state....3634.html#docs)

Here is the problem, as my Husband left there in 2001 he no longer has any record of the address he lived at, nor can he remember anything except for the city. After contacting relatives, no one has this old address in their address book (my Husband has been a prolific traveler and as such his most current address has, many times, been updated in his family's address books).

Has anyone else experienced similar issues when trying to remember ones past residencies?

Any advise here? Does anyone know if they would need the exact address?

Many thanks for any help
cjamesFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-08-26 10:23:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & ProceduresTiming before filing DCF
QUOTE (cjames @ Sep 3 2009, 02:15 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
QUOTE (imaisha @ Sep 3 2009, 01:42 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
QUOTE (Nik+Heather @ Sep 3 2009, 04:32 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I'm not sure what the rules are about residency - if it's that you must be eligible for residency longer than 6 months or actually have been residing there for 6 months. The DCF forum might be more appropriate for that sort of question.



Oh and also, from here: http://www.usembassy...i130filing.html

"The USCIS London Field Office has jurisdiction for adjudicating I-130 and I-360 petitions from U.S. citizens who have permission to reside AND who do principally reside in the United Kingdom."

So I think you have to have been residing, not just able to reside.


I, the UKC, have been residing here for over 18 months. My USC Wife has the right to, and will have been, residing here in Gibraltar for 6 months in a couple of weeks.

Our question is: Has anyone had anyone issues with making the DCF application AS SOON as the USC has been resident for 6 months?



Change of plans, after contacting both London and Rome for a second time we are now planning on filing DCF in Rome in 2 weeks time rather than London. Rome seems to be a quicker place to go through so this could be good for us.
cjamesFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-09-09 16:46:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & ProceduresTiming before filing DCF
QUOTE (imaisha @ Sep 3 2009, 01:42 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
QUOTE (Nik+Heather @ Sep 3 2009, 04:32 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I'm not sure what the rules are about residency - if it's that you must be eligible for residency longer than 6 months or actually have been residing there for 6 months. The DCF forum might be more appropriate for that sort of question.



Oh and also, from here: http://www.usembassy...i130filing.html

"The USCIS London Field Office has jurisdiction for adjudicating I-130 and I-360 petitions from U.S. citizens who have permission to reside AND who do principally reside in the United Kingdom."

So I think you have to have been residing, not just able to reside.


I, the UKC, have been residing here for over 18 months. My USC Wife has the right to, and will have been, residing here in Gibraltar for 6 months in a couple of weeks.

Our question is: Has anyone had anyone issues with making the DCF application AS SOON as the USC has been resident for 6 months?
cjamesFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-09-03 16:15:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & ProceduresTiming before filing DCF
QUOTE (Nik+Heather @ Sep 3 2009, 01:32 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
If you're living in Gibraltar why not do DCF from Spain? You don't have to go through the embassy of anyone's home country. The embassy in the country where you have residence should work. I'm basing this on a couple of K1s I know who are Indian and Pakistani citizens in the UK and go through the London Embassy (because that's the country they reside in).

I'm not sure what the rules are about residency - if it's that you must be eligible for residency longer than 6 months or actually have been residing there for 6 months. The DCF forum might be more appropriate for that sort of question.


Gibraltar is not a part of Spain. It is an independent country, without a US Embassy.

After researching this, the London US Embassy looks the best place to file DCF for us. Whether or not it will be accepted is another question!!!

Logistically, getting to the US Embassy in London will be much quicker and easier than getting to the US Embassy in Madrid. Sending and receiving mail will be quicker and easier through the UK as well.
cjamesFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-09-03 16:09:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & ProceduresTiming before filing DCF
Hi Guys,

Quick background:

Wife is the USC, Husband is the UKC. We have been together 4 years and married for nearly 7 months. The wife and I will be filing DCF from a third country, Gibraltar, at the London US Embassy.

We are planning on filing DCF in a couple of weeks, once the wife has been a legal resident of Gibraltar for 6 months.

Our question:

Will it be an issue to file DCF AS SOON as the wife has been resident for 6 months in Gibraltar? Is this timing of exactly 6 months looked at negatively by the US Embassy? Should we wait a few more months before we file at the Embassy?

Many thanks for all help in this stressful process smile.gif

PS. If this should be in the UK forum then please move, sorry :-)

Edited by cjames, 03 September 2009 - 02:13 PM.

cjamesFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-09-03 14:12:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures5 Police Certificates
So we are planning on filing DCF in Rome in 2 weeks time and are trying to get all documents together.

I, the UKC Husband, have been out of the UK for 13 years + and will require police certificates from 5 countries!

Has anyone else ever had to get more than that? Is it looked on positively / negatively... or does not matter?

I also have 2 other countries where I lived for 10 months each and am debating whether or not I should be proactive and get police certificates for these 2 places as well. These would be for Costa Rica and Curacao. I just keep thinking everything will be ok all the way through this process to the interview, except then the CO will ask me to get these 2 certificates as well.

I want to avoid an RFE but am I being too paranoid here?

Without forums like these the Wife and I would be completely lost, so thanks all good.gif
cjamesFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-09-09 17:00:00
IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & ProceduresG-325a - Definition of Residence
We are filling out our G-325a forms in preparation to file I-130 in a couple of weeks and would like opinions on the definition of 'residence' when it comes to completing the below section:

'Applicant's residence last five years. List present address first.'

I would imagine others have similar stories of visiting your SO on a VWP (I am the UKC Husband), staying 90 days, leaving and returning shortly after.

In the past 5 years I have, on 2 occasions, stayed in the US for 90 days on VWP left for 1 or 2 weeks and then returned for another 80-90 days.

Now I am filling out this section in the G-325a and am not sure what to put. I certainly was not resident in the US in a legal sense, yet was not resident anywhere else either.

The first time I stayed on back-to-back VWP I had been living in Costa Rica and decided to leave there, fly to the US, and visit my then Girlfriend for a few months before moving back to Europe, in the meantime the address I would have mail sent to would be my families home in the UK. Thats always been my 'mailing' address when I have been travelling and not living anywhere in particular.

At the end of the first 90 days I was having such a nice time that we flew to Costa Rica for a vacation then came back to the US and then I stayed another 80 days before moving to Curacao for a job, so never actually got to the UK.

Now if I put down my UK family address as residence it will be easy to see that I never actually got there. Would that still count as 'residence' though? Very confusing.
cjamesFemaleUnited Kingdom2009-09-11 13:33:00