If you are applying for a U.S. immigrant visa, the U.S. Department of State asks for police certificates from other countries you have lived in, not from the United States. Some of those countries let you request a certificate from abroad by mailing fingerprints taken in the U.S. The Visa Reciprocity and Civil Documents by Country pages list each country’s process.
Canada is a good example of a country with its own format. RCMP criminal record checks use Canada’s own civil fingerprint form rather than the FD-258, and the RCMP explains how applicants outside Canada submit prints on its criminal record checks page. Bring the form and the instructions, and we will roll your prints onto it.
Moving abroad from the United States? The destination country will usually ask for a U.S. police certificate, which in practice means your FBI Identity History Summary, often with an apostille.