police certificate from UK?how long does it take?plz share your experience!

[quagaar145]

Hi Mehwish, are you applying for the UK certificate outside of the UK? I am living in the US and trying to get mine from ACRO, been running into difficulties with paying for it. Since they will only accept payment in pounds sterling I tried to get my bank to draw up a foreign draft but ACRO sent it back saying it wasn't an acceptable check. If you have friends in the UK willing to get a UK postal order to send with your application it would probably be easier for you... or make sure you can find a bank that knows how to do foreign drafts or international wire transfers properly. Thankfully the people at ACRO are pretty prompt with their responses to inquiries but they are not very willing to work with people who don't have access to pounds sterling types of payment (who doesn't accept credit cards these days?? I mean I know it is a different currency and all but sheesh!)