getting an F1 Visa from the UK with an expunged criminal record?

The questions read "have you been ....".

Hmmm. I have never heard of a criminal record being expunged except for something possibly done as a minor – or if one was eventually exonerated of being falsely convicted. Why would this happen?

And I don’t have a definite answer to your question but would relate an experience that happened to a Brit I know personally. He was caught with a joint flying into the UK over 30 years ago. The case got dropped – no conviction. Yet on the basis of this he was denied a green card in America where he was living. He managed to stay in America, I think on temporary basis but I am not even sure of the legality of how he might have done it. He was a respected person in his community and married an American woman with children. Then Trump came in and within a year he was deported.

Charges, none the less convictions, for drugs or violent crimes can be shared by many countries and create problems. In the end, if you really want to try, then just do so. But getting caught in a lie can mean a ban where admitting to some transgressions might be tolerated. But like twostep mentioned, the question asked will be “were you ever…

High jacking a thread - is all well in your world Tom?

twostep wrote:

High jacking a thread - is all well in your world Tom?

All is as well as one can expect in the Corona situation. Just bunkered down at home in Stuttgart, contemplating how the bills will get paid if it drags on into the summer.

TominStuttgart wrote:

twostep wrote:

High jacking a thread - is all well in your world Tom?

All is as well as one can expect in the Corona situation. Just bunkered down at home in Stuttgart, contemplating how the bills will get paid if it drags on into the summer.

Cat food, wine and toilet paper and enough to share if necessary. Panik shopping, chains like Kohl's have closed. No more Corona jokes please! Hang in there!