+xHi all, I am looking to immigrate to the US but I have a problem that I have currently. I have a few convictions in relation to the UK railway bye-laws which resulted in fines. I do know they are not recordable on the Police national computer. I was foolishly on trains without a ticket because I couldn’t afford one and wanted to get to interviews for jobs so I took my chances ultimately I got caught by a few inspectors and got convictions from magistrates courts, it happened last year. I was wondering how I would go about collect records of these, if these should be a problem and if I’d be inadmissible to the US?Any advice would be helpful  The police certificate you would have to produced at the US embassy is a list of any cautions and convictions on your criminal record. You can get a free copy of your police record from ACRO, and that is the basis of the police certificate. If something is not on the Police National Computer, it won't be on your police certificate. You could always buy a police certificate from ACRO, but that would set you back £65. That will definitely show you whether anything will be disclosed. If they are disclosed, that doesn't automatically mean you can't go to the US, but I expect they would look at how many convictions are involved, over what period of time, and what punishments you were given. I don't think the actual offences would worry them in your case.
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If you are to punish a man retributively you must injure him. If you are to reform him you must improve him. And men are not improved by injuries. (George Bernard Shaw)
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