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

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.

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.

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Originally Posted by Fr_Chuck

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.

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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

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.