Thursday, 28 August 2008
Police certificate
One of the documents we need to prepare in order to apply for the residence is police certificate. It proves your character - and the Immigration NZ will be satisfied if you have no criminal record.
It can take a lot of time...you are required to submit police certificates from all the countries you have lived for more than a year in the past 10 years, including the country of your citizenship. In our case, we need the certificate from Japan and Australia. In addition, Игры needs to get one from Russia too. Small kids don't need this document.
For Japan, we had to ask the Japanese Embassy in London to send us the fingerprint forms. We need to bring those forms to the local police station to get our fingerprints taken. Together with the fingerprints, we need to apply for the police certificate in person at the Japanese Embassy in London (5 hrs drive from where we live). It'll cost us nothing but they'll take few months to have it done. We need to show up to London again to receive the certificates when it's done.
The Australian Embassy has got nothing to do with obtaining the Australian police certificate. Instead, we needed to directly contact the police service in Australia. I rang the Queensland Police Headquarters office, and they sent me everything we needed to know by e-mail. Fingerprints are again required for the nation-wide criminal history check. It'll cost AU$153.70 per certificate, and they will process within 7-10 working days.
Now, fingerprints can be taken at the local police station in either of the case. I went to the biggest police station in town and asked about the fingerprints. It'll cost us £60 for the 1st document, and £30 each for the following ones (meaning they'll give you a discount for doing many fingerprints at the same time).
Thankfully, for the Russian police certificate, fingerprints are not required (at least that's how we understand). You just need to show up to the Russian Embassy in London and have the forms filled in by the applicant (processing time and fee is unknown).
I'm glad that we don't have to travel to those countries to obtain the police certificate, but London is still quite far from here. The place where we live is one of Britain's most peripheral areas.
See how peripheral it is? (see photo)
本申請で必要な書類に「警察証明」がある。過去に犯罪歴がないかどうかを調べるためらしい。
これは取得までにかなり時間がかかることがあるので、本申請の招待状をもらったらすぐに取りかかるべきだと思う(・・・我が家は1ヶ月も放置してしまった←本申請招待状が来てから4ヶ月以内に申請しないといけないのです)。警察証明は、母国及び過去10年間に1年以上住んだ国全てから取得しなければならない。我が家の場合は日本とオーストラリア。イギリスはまだ1年未満だからいらないか。夫はロシアからも取得しなくてはならない。子供たちは不要。
まず日本。国外に住んでいる私たちの窓口は、ロンドンの日本大使館。警察証明には指紋の採取が必要なので、まずは指紋用紙を取り寄せる。指紋はローカルの警察署で取ってもらい、それを持って申請者が直接大使館まで出頭申請しなくてはならない(ここからロンドンまで車で5時間ぐらい)。費用は無料だが、取得まで2~3ヶ月かかるらしい。
オーストラリアの場合、大使館は警察証明の面倒を見てくれません。オーストラリアの警察に直接連絡しろと言われ、住んでいたクィーンズランド州の警察本部へ電話したところ、メールアドレスを聞かれ、その場ですぐ必要事項を記載したメールを送ってくれた。こちらも指紋採取が必要。全国版の指紋付警察証明書は一人153.70豪ドル。高い!!けど、7~10営業日で作成して返送してくれるそう。
指紋採取はローカルの警察署で。我が町の警察本部と思しき場所で聞いたところ、指紋採取は£60。2枚目は£30(←割引 笑)。
ありがたいことに、ロシアの警察証明には指紋採取はしなくてよいらしい(と解釈してる)。ただし、やはり申請者がロンドンのロシア大使館まで出頭申請・出頭受取しないといけないらしい。期間と料金は忘れました。
ロンドンへ行かなくてはならないのが大変。何しろここはイギリスの僻地だから。
写真を見れば、どれだけ田舎かわかるでしょ?
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