Fixed Penalty notice question regarding holidays

claire-B | 09:39 Thu 03rd Jun 2010 | Criminal

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Ok, so I know that this question has come up time and time again but there has been mixed answers so can anyone help to clarify please? Just over a year ago I was given a fixed penalty notice for shoplifting...I was cautioned on the spot which I believe experies as soon as itsgiven. Anyhow, my family are looking to going to USA / Canada this summer and now im beginning to worry. I know that the FPN does not count as a conviction or a record but am unsure that seen as it was theft it will count as moral turpitude? On some of the forms i have read it asks if the applicant has been conviceted or arrested where as others ask if the applicant has ever committed a crime involving moral turpitude. I was so worried that I emailed the embassy but have not had a reply.

Can anyone shed some light as to what to do for the best? I don't want to go there and then find i have to come all teh way home!

Thanks

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Dee Sa

now that you have emailed the US embassy they have a record of your name etc and if you want to get a visa you will have to apply via the US embassy for an interview and all this takes time. silly move to have contacted them.and dont expect a reply.

claire-B

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I did not mention any details...and i contacted them as I couldn't get an answer from anyone!

claire-B

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are you saying that details can be found just by emailing? I did not state where im from etc just what i had done

eddy51

As has been said on here many times a fixed penalty notice is not an arrest, conviction or a criminal record. So when you are asked the question have you ever been arrested or convicted of a offence of moral turpitude ? You can truth fully answer NO.
If the question was '' have you ever committed a crime involving moral turpitude?''
It would mean that anyone who even took a paper clip or pencil home from work has to answer yes, it they were being really truthfull.
Just answer no to the questions.

claire-B

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ok so basically plead ignorant and also the embassy cannot find any details from an email apart from my name right?

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