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Durga777
Sep 4, 2008, 12:36 PM
What does the FBI Check include. I need a shopliffting in another country , got arrested and I paid fine for it. Now my Green card is in process and I am worried about the FBI. Do they go beyond US and check. Please help me with appropriate answers.
Thanks for your time
lawanwadee
Sep 4, 2008, 12:56 PM
FBI background check does not cover overseas records. However, USCIS request criminal clearance from all the countries you've resided over 6 months. So this issue will come up. What you should do is retain an immigration attorney to help with a waiver. Even it's little issue, but if it's interpreted as crime involves moral turpitude, you might be in trouble.
Fr_Chuck
Sep 4, 2008, 01:38 PM
Of course if you listed it, when asked about any criminal conviction, it shouild not even matter. Also if this is from the country you are coming from, they run a check there.
Durga777
Sep 5, 2008, 11:26 AM
Of course if you listed it, when asked about any criminal conviction, it shouild not even matter. Also if this is from the country you are comming from, they run a check there.
Its not from the country I came from but from a different country and I lived and worked their beyond 6 months.
Does FBI check overseas too.. Please clarify
lawanwadee
Sep 5, 2008, 11:46 AM
FBI do not run background check overseas but USCIS requires that you must submit criminal clearance from every countries you've lived in the past.