Daks said:
Thanks for the info.
You dont think it was a typo and they are asking for a British police check? We havent even had the sponsorship approval for my partner so why are they asking for something relating to my part of the application?
Seems very strange - anyway thank you for the reply.
Having read through everything with a fine tooth comb when we applied (Australian citizen living in the UK since 2006), we interpreted the following:
- you must submit an original police check for every country you've lived since your 18th birthday
- you must submit a complete application for both sponsor and applicants from the very beginning. I feel I read multiple places that you risk delaying your application if they need to contact you for information at a further stage
My partner is from Melbourne - Victoria state as per the CIC site requested us to send both the original police cert (which took less than 24 hours to process after applying online. It arrived in the UK before the UK police check did, applied for the same week) AND we had to submit a driver's report from as far back as he has had his license specifically for Victoria state so read the CIC website carefully.
My advice is don't ever question anything they ask you for, just do it! There is no transparency from CIC so you're not going to get into any kind of meaningful conversations with them. Hope this helps and good luck!
(PS - our application has gone without any hitch so far *knock on wood* so hope it was worth doing everything upfront despite the expense and stress for a speedy process)
