u/elbick54321

Hey yall, I have my visa appointment for NALCAP this Wednesday, and as I was going through the website and making sure I have all my documents, I noticed it says I’m supposed to get a background check with an apostille from any country I lived in during the past 5 years. I lived in Japan for a year in 2024-2025, and that would obviously fall under that category of needing a background check. Are they going to care? Should I go to my visa appt and hope they don’t say anything? Will they accept the application and just ask for more documents later on? Theoretically I can go to the japanese consulate the same day to request the background check but it still says 2-3 month processing time. Am I screwed?

I just realized that my passport has no completely free pages where a visa could be placed- can I assume the consulate will put the visa just over current stamps? Are they going to reject my visa application because of this? If I got a new passport ASAP it would have a new number- would this mess up my whole application for NALCAP?

I know nobody can give me a concrete answer I’m just looking for reassurance mainly haha.

My inscrita number is 25146, which I think is quite low compared to others I’ve seen, but it took multiple days for me to get admitida status (compared to others with higher inscrita numbers on the tracker) and now I’m still waiting for a province placement even though other first-year applicants are receiving theirs. My region choices were Aragon, País Vasco, and La Rioja, and I’ve seen posts that all three are giving placements to first-years now. Any thoughts?