REGARDING POLICE CERTIFICATE REQUEST:
Dear All,
I actually do not want to be pessimistic, yet being realistic is needful in this forum with the visa requests;
Just to clear up something regarding anne1024 and the PC request, they need it in original, it is a good sign of course, yet not that it is over; I had the same experience, 2 weeks ago received the same letter, yet they had them already so I went to the embassy and they said it is ok, was “misplaced”.
Yet since then, now 14 days passed, nothing came up; neither the visa, nor passport request for stamping the visa.
I sent an email to confirm that it was a misunderstanding, I received that email mentioning "we will contact you shortly", and that is it!
Cannot deny that communicating and asking for things is a positive sign that things are moving, yet this is just a "step" in the whole proces, not a "Finale", things are not that fast, unfortunately.
Good luck and God bless, please remember to keep and keep posting your thoughts, updates and results. It helps really a lot.