I have a US passport. At any rate, I’ll figure out what to do when I reach that point, if I ever do the way it’s going. I have a 10-yr visa in India so I can stay there long-term if needed.
No, not really. Police are jurisdictional, not national. So, in order to get an accurate record of any criminal record I might have (I don’t have one, but I’d have to prove that I don’t), I would have to contact the police departments in each of the six jurisdictions I’ve lived in since age 18 to get reports from each. And I am skeptical that the departments where I lived from 1980-2000 would have any record that I even lived there by now. I could try the FBI, but I don’t know if they have records of anything other than federal crimes. Anyway, I’ll cross these bridges when I come to them. Just trying to glean some info while I await word from the Thai government re: my retirement visa application. Thank you.
To add on to this, how would you get a police report in general? In the US, you have local and state police, and since I don’t have a record, what would I do—request a letter indicating that I’ve never been arrested? And from each of the jurisdictions I’ve lived in (quite a few)? It’s all mind-boggling to me.