Police Clearance Certificates (PCC)

Almost always yes — with the right procedure, your old passport details and residence dates. It routinely surprises people how feasible this is. Send us the country and your approximate residence period; you get the checklist in one reply.

It varies more by country than any other service we run — from days (online systems) to many weeks (police-authority searches). The duration on this page is the current typical figure for this country; your written quote carries the honest date for your case.

For most countries, no — the check runs against records, not people. Where a local verification step exists, we tell you in advance exactly what it involves, so nothing arrives as a surprise.

Often yes, and for some countries the portal is genuinely easy — we will tell you when that is the case. Where we earn our fee is the hard ones: fingerprint standards, embassy appointment queues, documents from a life you left a decade ago.

No — most employers and immigration systems treat a PCC as valid for a limited period from issue. We time the application against your submission deadline so it is fresh when it matters.