How to obtain a police clearance certificate?

Introduction

If you want to immigrate to Canada,Australia,Newzeland,Sauth Africa,UK,USA,etc, you and your dependants may have to provide police certificates when you submit your application for permanent residence. Visa offices may also request certificates from students and temporary foreign workers.

What is a police clearance certificate?

A police clearance certificate is a copy of your criminal record or a declaration of the absence of any criminal record. Police clearance certificates are different in each country and territory and may be called police certificates, good conduct certificates, judicial record extracts,pcc, etc. They are issued by police authorities or government departments and used by Citizenship and Immigration to prevent individuals who pose a risk to Countrie's security from entering the country.

Who needs a police clearance certificate?

In general, you and everyone in your family who is 18 years of age or over need to obtain a police clearance certificate. You must obtain a police clearance certificate from each country or territory where you have lived for six consecutive months or longer since reaching the age of 18.

The police clearance certificate must have been issued no more than three months before you submit your application.These rules may be different in each country and teritory.So you must have to enquire through concerned countries embassy.

If the original Police clearance certificate is neither in English nor in ,Arabic or any other language, submit both the certificate and the original copy of a translation prepared by an accredited translator with your application.

How to obtain a police clearance certificate?

 In most cases, it is your responsibility to contact the police or relevant authorities and request the certificate. When doing so, you may have to provide information or documentation such as photographs, fingerprints or your addresses and periods of residence in the country or territory

How to obtain a police certificate ?

If you live outsideUnited Arab Emirate

Requirements For The Issue Of The Certificate

1. Finger Prints (Contact Nearest Police Station )

2. Copy of the passport including the pages containing the previous residence stamp during the applicant’s residence in UAE

4. Two Photographs

5. Applicable fees

If you live outside Bahrain

The required documents are:

 1. Fill the application Form

2. Copy of the passport including the pages containing the previous residence stamp during the applicant’s residence in Bahrain & Copy of Work Permit

3. Two Photographs

4. applicable fees

Kuwait : If you live outside Kuwait

Required documents:

1. Finger Prints (Contact Nearest Police Station )

2 Copy of the passport including the pages containing the previous residence stamp during the applicant’s residence in Kuwait

3. Two Photographs

4. applicable fees


Oman : If you live outside Oman

Required documents:

1. Finger Prints (Contact Nearest Police Station )

2 Copy of the passport including the pages containing the previous residence stamp during the applicant’s residence in Oman

3 Oman Company Address & Tel Numbers

4 Two Photographs

5. applicable fees
 

Qatar: If you live outside Qatar

Required documents:

1. Finger Prints (Contact Nearest Police Station )

2. Fill the Application Form

3. Copy of the passport including the pages containing the previous residence stamp during the applicant’s residence in Qatar

4. Two Photographs

5. Applicable fees

If you live outside the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Required Documents:

1. Finger Prints (Contact Nearest Police Station)

2. Copy of the passport including the pages containing the previous residence stamp during the applicant’s residence in Saudi Arabia

3. During the applicant’s residence in Saudi Arabia

4. Two Photographs

5. Fee applicable

6. Iqama copy

If you live outside Yemen

Required documents:

1. Finger Print

2. You should present a letter from the Canadian Immigration Visa Office

3. a copy of your passport;

4. a copy of all former residence visas for Yemen

5. photograph

6. Applicable fees

If you live outside Singapore

Required documents:

1. Finger Print

2. You should present a letter from the Canadian Immigration Visa Office

3. Copy of Passport

4. Documentary proof of a previous stay in Singapore

5. Four Photographs

6. Applicable fees