Question about obtaining police certificates

[ARodrigues]

Maybe I'm reading this wrong, or maybe embassies have different requirements, but it looks like for Brazil interviews, you send a couple of things to the embassy, they schedule your interview (with very little notice), and you bring the majority of documents with you to the interview. One of these documents are police certificates, like background checks for Brazil..

Does that mean I have to send my husband back prior to his interview date to obtain these background checks? What if they take several weeks to process? Please answer, regardless of your country..

[wanaads]

I had my husband write a letter to the police asking for his records. We sent it to his mother who went to a police station in the capital on they gave it to her a few days later. It was quite easy. Others from Brazil should be able to tell you how they did it. Best of luck!!

[y14gemini]

Hi, do not know if I can help, but my husband went to the police station (in Honduras) and they did whatever paperwork they had to do and then gave him the certificate.

[Pinkpig]

http://www.embaixada-americana.org.br/index.php?action=materia&id=2413&submenu=rio.php&itemmenu=58

http://www.embaixada-americana.org.br/index.php?action=materia&id=2416&submenu=rio.php&itemmenu=58

Our DIL had to go to each state that she had lived in and be fingerprinted, and then return a couple of days later and pick up the certificate. Each place has a different procedure. She called and asked each state what she needed to do.



For the best information on how to do it in different states go to visajourney.com and look at the Brazil consulate information pages. They tell pretty much everything.

[ILoveLucy21]

do you even need a police certificate from the u.s. if u were there illegally? i doubt they would even have u in most records

[y14gemini]

Here in the US it is the police record. HAs the person ever been arrested?

[ictomi]

do you even need a police certificate from the u.s. if u were there illegally? i doubt they would even have u in most records

In the US they will do a background check. Because we are filing from Tunisia the embassy electronically finger printed my husband. It took about a week to get the results.

[Paul & Kerri]

My husband had to obtain the police certificates twice from Czech Republic, as 6 months had passed from receiving the 1st certificate. He also lived in Canada, but was unable to get the 2nd certificate because Cananda require that you be there in person to obtain it. This was immpossible for my husband to do. Luckly the Embassy in Czech allowed the one he obtained in Canada earlier that year (like 9 months prior). He obtained that report just before he left Canada...so therefore, nothing would have been changed.

[ILoveLucy21]

No I never had anything criminal while I grew up in the U.S. so i'm not sure if i will even show up but my parents did enter legally with me (at the time)

[ARodrigues]

I'm talking about obtaining Brazilian police certificates FROM the U.S..

[india601]

It took my husband 3 weeks to get his police certificate in India. The policeman visited his residence in India to see if he lived there. WE had to delay submitting the waiver until he got the police certificate.

[SHELLYFCO]

Arodrigues, yes, different embassies have different requirements. What I found most shocking, is they are permitted to submit everything in Portuguese versus English. My co-worker's son just had his interview on Friday in Brazil. His Mom had petitioned for him FIVE years ago and he finally received the appointment notice with only FIVE days to get everything together (despite the fact that they told him he would have a month notice when his number came up). They did require a Police Certificate which in Brazil can take a week or longer. I'll ask my friend if she can find out more about the police certificate.

[SHELLYFCO]

I sent my friend an email and will let you know as soon as she responds regarding the Police Certificate.

[JMRJ]

I might be a little late but I found this one:
http://travel.state.gov/visa/frvi/reciprocity/reciprocity_3521.html

Certificates of Good Conduct (Atestados de Bons Antecedentes) related to possible violations of state law are available to persons over the age of 18 from the Secretaria de Seguranca Publica in each of Brazil's states (and the Distrito Federal). Atestados related to possible violations of federal law are available to persons over the age of 18 from any station (Delegacia) of the National Police (Policia Federal). Criminal records in Brazil are expunged five years after any sentence has been served.

Because each state maintains a separate database of violations of state law, a prospective immigrant must obtain a separate record from the Secretaria de Seguranca Publica of each state in which he or she has resided within the past five years. Additionally, a prospective immigrant must obtain a record from the Policia Federal, since state police records do not include violations of federal law.

For addresses or telephone numbers of Secretarias de Seguranca Publica, an applicant may call the immigrant visa unit of the U.S. Consular General in Rio de Janeiro. If a state's Secretaria refuses to provide an Atestado to an applicant, he or she may request the assistance of the Rio IV unit.

[ARodrigues]

Thanks for your information!

Shelly, will you PM me when you find out? The point of my question is that I want to know how far in advance to his interview will I send to send him to Brazil...

[Pinkpig]

I am glad that I saw this again as my DIL is right here and this is what she told me she had to do:

1) She called and asked each police station what she had to do before she went. Each state in Brazil does it differently, so it would be good to check with your particular state to be sure.


2) The federal police station in Boa Vista, Roraima, Brazil, took her fingerprints and 3 days later she went back to get the actual certificate.

3) The state police station in Boa Vista took her fingerprints and 24 hours later she went back to pick up the certificate.

4) In Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, the state police just looked at her Brazilian ID and her proof of address and she went back 24 hours later and picked up the certificate.

5) As she also lived for more than 6 months in Vienna, Austria, she needed a certificate for Austria. She applied for that certificate at the Austrian embassy in Rio de Janeiro. She had to show her passport, they did not fingerprint her and she went back 3 days later to pick up the police certificate.

6) We had everything officially translated into English and the translations documented. This included her birth certificate, their marriage license (they were married in Manaus, Amazonas) and the Brazilian and Austrian police certificates.

She is here so if you think of anything else you want to ask about let me know.

She is making her own wax to do the Brazilian thing. I am learning so many new things. LOL

The link to the Brazilian consulate that I gave you in a previous post earlier in the thread has all the information.

[ARodrigues]

Thanks, Pinkpig..Am I understanding correctly that the certificates are required BEFORE you are scheduled for the interview?