DV2008

My wife just received a notice on April 16th from Kentucky Consular Center indicates that she will be one of the possible recipient of diversity visa 2008. She is a citizen of Japan and I am citizen of Taiwan. We are currently live in the US under H1B visa and we have been in the US since 1997 (both with F-1 visa when we came). I was wondering if anyone can give us some guidelines or steps that we can follow if we decide to have the Interview in Japan. I read a lot of articles on the Internet, but none of them seem to apply to our case with husband and wife came from different countries.



Also, based on the notice she received, it suggests us to prepare some documents, such as birth certificate, police certificate, military records, marriage certificate, evidence of required education or work experience, and evidence of support. Some of the items are quite simple, such as marriage certificate (we were married in the US, so no problem) and evidence of required education or work experience (we both received our college degrees in the US); however, items like police certificate, military records, and evidence of support are the ones that I have trouble with. Base on our currently situation, we have lived in US - California for about ten years and rarely visit our birth countries (once or twice per one or two years, two weeks tops for each trip), I was wondering, as the spouse, where I should obtain police certificate. Kansas? California? Or, Taiwan? By the way, I attended a short language program (December 96’ to April 97’) at Ottawa University, KS when I first arrived in US before I move to CA. On the other hand, she was in CA since 1997. Also, how far back does the record has to be?



As of the military record, I did attend the required military service when I turned to 20 years old in Taiwan, so what kind of record or information do I need to present during the interview? Ranking? Last, I do not understand what “evidence of supportâ€