URGENT: NVC documents checklist query

[Neville Katrak]

Guys,

In the NVC Welcome Letter, there are "financial" and "supporting" documents to be sent to NVC after submission of the Visa Application Form. Under the checklist item "Photocopies of Supporting Documents", these three items confuse me:

a) Petitioner Documents: What exactly is this?

b) Police Certificate: Whose police certificate do I need to submit? Mine or my wife's? And if I need to submit my wife's police certificate, I need her to immediately get a Police Certificate from her regional Passport Office in India, but as I read online, you need to take an interview/appointment letter to the Passport Office to get a Police Certificate. So how can she get one right now??

c) Valid, unexpired passport: Again, mine or my wife's??

They're not very clear on whose documents are required in this entire checklist.

[StudyJunky]

Guys,

In the NVC Welcome Letter, there are "financial" and "supporting" documents to be sent to NVC after submission of the Visa Application Form. Under the checklist item "Photocopies of Supporting Documents", these three items confuse me:

a) Petitioner Documents: What exactly is this?

b) Police Certificate: Whose police certificate do I need to submit? Mine or my wife's? And if I need to submit my wife's police certificate, I need her to immediately get a Police Certificate from her regional Passport Office in India, but as I read online, you need to take an interview/appointment letter to the Passport Office to get a Police Certificate. So how can she get one right now??

c) Valid, unexpired passport: Again, mine or my wife's??

They're not very clear on whose documents are required in this entire checklist.

Neville,

a. Petitioner's docs means documents of the person who filed the I-130 on the intending immigrant's behalf.

b. You need to submit PCC of the intending immigrant. Also, I'm from India too and yes, you have to apply online for getting the PCC. Mine took nearly 15 days. You have to fix an appointment at a Passport office. They'll check your docs. Then, they'll forward your application to your local Police station. Then, they will check your background and ask for docs. After they find everything clear, they again forward your "Clear" Report to the Passport Office and then the Passport office will send you an text or an e-mail asking you to pick up your PCC. There's no way to speed up the process, unfortunately.

c. Again, passport of the intending immigrant.

Who is the Petitioner in your case? You or your wife? i.e. who is the green card holder?
I think I have the same case as yours and I just sent my docs the NVC.
Stay in touch.

[Neville Katrak]

Neville,

a. Petitioner's docs means documents of the person who filed the I-130 on the intending immigrant's behalf.

b. You need to submit PCC of the intending immigrant. Also, I'm from India too and yes, you have to apply online for getting the PCC. Mine took nearly 15 days. You have to fix an appointment at a Passport office. They'll check your docs. Then, they'll forward your application to your local Police station. Then, they will check your background and ask for docs. After they find everything clear, they again forward your "Clear" Report to the Passport Office and then the Passport office will send you an text or an e-mail asking you to pick up your PCC. There's no way to speed up the process, unfortunately.

c. Again, passport of the intending immigrant.

Who is the Petitioner in your case? You or your wife? i.e. who is the green card holder?
I think I have the same case as yours and I just sent my docs the NVC.
Stay in touch.

Hi StudyJunky,

Thanks a lot for your response. I'm the petitioner (US citizen) and my wife is the intending immigrant. I just paid the fees to the NVC and waiting for the request for documents. So I need the wife's PCC as you've said. I just applied online for her and received an appointment at the Indian passport office for day after tomorrow. I have a little confusion: in the "document advisory" on their page, it says the only document required for PCC is "Old passport in original with self-attested photocopy of its first two and last two pages including ECR/Non-ECR page and page of observation (if any)." So she doesn't require anything else like birth/marriage certificate/etc.? Also, any idea what they would do/ask in the appointment so I can prepare my wife for it? As she's not too savvy about these things and wouldn't want to mess it up.

Thank you so much!

[StudyJunky]

Hi StudyJunky,

Thanks a lot for your response. I'm the petitioner (US citizen) and my wife is the intending immigrant. I just paid the fees to the NVC and waiting for the request for documents. So I need the wife's PCC as you've said. I just applied online for her and received an appointment at the Indian passport office for day after tomorrow. I have a little confusion: in the "document advisory" on their page, it says the only document required for PCC is "Old passport in original with self-attested photocopy of its first two and last two pages including ECR/Non-ECR page and page of observation (if any)." So she doesn't require anything else like birth/marriage certificate/etc.? Also, any idea what they would do/ask in the appointment so I can prepare my wife for it? As she's not too savvy about these things and wouldn't want to mess it up.

Thank you so much!

No trouble. It's better to take all the documents to the Passport Office especially your marriage certificate. The Granting Officer might or might not ask for others docs. But there is no way to know for sure so it's better safe than sorry. Also, what happened in my case was my husband is in US with his whole family, so after marriage, I'm still living with my parents. They asked me the reason and I told them so. They won't ask as many questions at the Passport Office as they do so at your local police verification. After all, they are going to forward your application there only.

[Neville Katrak]

No trouble. It's better to take all the documents to the Passport Office especially your marriage certificate. The Granting Officer might or might not ask for others docs. But there is no way to know for sure so it's better safe than sorry. Also, what happened in my case was my husband is in US with his whole family, so after marriage, I'm still living with my parents. They asked me the reason and I told them so. They won't ask as many questions at the Passport Office as they do so at your local police verification. After all, they are going to forward your application there only.

Umm okay thanks. Did they ask you for the marriage certificate or anything extra? Any idea how much time it takes for the passport office appointment?

[StudyJunky]

Umm okay thanks. Did they ask you for the marriage certificate or anything extra? Any idea how much time it takes for the passport office appointment?

They asked for my Marriage Certificate only cuz they were surprised to know that I'm still living my parents after marriage but they understood once I explained that my husband and his family lives in the US.
You have to book your appointment online and choose the timing. Once you're in, it's not going to take more than an hour, again depends on the rush. It's after they send your application to the local police station the real waiting will begin.

[Neville Katrak]

They asked for my Marriage Certificate only cuz they were surprised to know that I'm still living my parents after marriage but they understood once I explained that my husband and his family lives in the US.
You have to book your appointment online and choose the timing. Once you're in, it's not going to take more than an hour, again depends on the rush. It's after they send your application to the local police station the real waiting will begin.

Oh okay, thanks. An hour? My receipt shows 930-945 am so thought it'd take 15 minutes.

Around 15 days after the appointment for the police station thing right?

[StudyJunky]

Oh okay, thanks. An hour? My receipt shows 930-945 am so thought it'd take 15 minutes.

Around 15 days after the appointment for the police station thing right?

The time on your appointment letter shows the window within which you'll be allowed entry. Meaning, if you reach there at 10 when the allotted time was 9:30, they won't let you go in. They don't specify how much time it will take after you enter.

Mine took 15 days but only because I ran from one police station to other so that they'd speed up the process as I had to send my docs to the NVC.

[Neville Katrak]

The time on your appointment letter shows the window within which you'll be allowed entry. Meaning, if you reach there at 10 when the allotted time was 9:30, they won't let you go in. They don't specify how much time it will take after you enter.

Mine took 15 days but only because I ran from one police station to other so that they'd speed up the process as I had to send my docs to the NVC.

Hi StudyJunky,

PCC appointment done, but as you said, they mentioned that the passport had no police stamp so they needed to forward the request to the local police station. Now the police either comes to us for which it takes 20-24 days OR we can go to them personally to get it done faster.