Police clearance in UK
#1
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Police clearance in UK
Dear all,
I am sure more than one of you has obtained police clearance certificates from the UK. I wondered if you could please share your experiences how you did it, how long it took and how much it cost you, etc. Thanks a lot and I hope this thread helps more than one who like me need this document.
Chipotle
I am sure more than one of you has obtained police clearance certificates from the UK. I wondered if you could please share your experiences how you did it, how long it took and how much it cost you, etc. Thanks a lot and I hope this thread helps more than one who like me need this document.
Chipotle
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Re: Police clearance in UK
Originally Posted by Chipotle
Dear all,
I am sure more than one of you has obtained police clearance certificates from the UK. I wondered if you could please share your experiences how you did it, how long it took and how much it cost you, etc. Thanks a lot and I hope this thread helps more than one who like me need this document.
Chipotle
I am sure more than one of you has obtained police clearance certificates from the UK. I wondered if you could please share your experiences how you did it, how long it took and how much it cost you, etc. Thanks a lot and I hope this thread helps more than one who like me need this document.
Chipotle
The cost is 10 GBP and should take less than 40 days. Very simple only 1 form to fill in and hand it in at your local police station.
Dozzzzy
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Re: Police clearance in UK
Originally Posted by dozzzzy
UK Police don't give out a clearance as such, what you can get, is an extract of your information held on the police national computer, accessed via the provisions in the Data Protection Act.
The cost is 10 GBP and should take less than 40 days. Very simple only 1 form to fill in and hand it in at your local police station.
Dozzzzy
The cost is 10 GBP and should take less than 40 days. Very simple only 1 form to fill in and hand it in at your local police station.
Dozzzzy
#4
Re: Police clearance in UK
Originally Posted by cov-canuck
Agreed, my husband completed the form in Appendix D of the spousal app to send to the police station. Got a letter back less than a week later with an "official" form and a request for £10, sent that back and received the certificate within 2 weeks (just a piece of blue-ish paper really).
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Re: Police clearance in UK
Originally Posted by andy_sheila
Same here except that mine was 20 sheets of bluish paper
Dozzzzy
#6
Re: Police clearance in UK
Originally Posted by Chipotle
Dear all,
I am sure more than one of you has obtained police clearance certificates from the UK. I wondered if you could please share your experiences how you did it, how long it took and how much it cost you, etc. Thanks a lot and I hope this thread helps more than one who like me need this document.
Chipotle
I am sure more than one of you has obtained police clearance certificates from the UK. I wondered if you could please share your experiences how you did it, how long it took and how much it cost you, etc. Thanks a lot and I hope this thread helps more than one who like me need this document.
Chipotle
Headhurts
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Re: Police clearance in UK
Originally Posted by dozzzzy
That must be some kind of record, to have one longer than my arm that's going some
Dozzzzy
Dozzzzy
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Re: Police clearance in UK
Originally Posted by andy_sheila
Not really, it's just that the type was REALLY, REALLY big
Tracey
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Re: Police clearance in UK
Thank you all very very much for your help. I think I will apply both for the England certificate and the N. Ireland certificate as we lived there for a year. Better safe than be asked for it later, right?
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Re: Police clearance in UK
Thanks for the helpful web link.
#11
Re: Police clearance in UK
Originally Posted by cov-canuck
Agreed, my husband completed the form in Appendix D of the spousal app to send to the police station. Got a letter back less than a week later with an "official" form and a request for £10, sent that back and received the certificate within 2 weeks (just a piece of blue-ish paper really).
Dozzzzy
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Re: Police clearance in UK
Originally Posted by Chipotle
Dear all,
I am sure more than one of you has obtained police clearance certificates from the UK. I wondered if you could please share your experiences how you did it, how long it took and how much it cost you, etc. Thanks a lot and I hope this thread helps more than one who like me need this document.
Chipotle
I am sure more than one of you has obtained police clearance certificates from the UK. I wondered if you could please share your experiences how you did it, how long it took and how much it cost you, etc. Thanks a lot and I hope this thread helps more than one who like me need this document.
Chipotle
We downloaded the form filled it in and took it to the local police station with some ID payed ten pounds each they kept the forms and sent then off for us and we received the reports back within 10 days.GREAT''
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Re: Police clearance in UK
I called the Nottinghamshire Police HQ and they emailed the form the same day.
Filled them in, sent them in with a cheque for £10 and a week later my girlfriend's *clean* report arrived. Mine arrived a few weeks later, just within the 40 days the say it will take. I believe they state this time limit because if there *is* something on your record, it takes a while to collate all the information from the various forces. In my case, there was still a conditional discharge from 10 years ago on file - I thought it would be gone by now, given it's relatively minor nature, but I guess not. Anyway, I don't think it will affect the application, but only time will tell!
Filled them in, sent them in with a cheque for £10 and a week later my girlfriend's *clean* report arrived. Mine arrived a few weeks later, just within the 40 days the say it will take. I believe they state this time limit because if there *is* something on your record, it takes a while to collate all the information from the various forces. In my case, there was still a conditional discharge from 10 years ago on file - I thought it would be gone by now, given it's relatively minor nature, but I guess not. Anyway, I don't think it will affect the application, but only time will tell!
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Re: Police clearance in UK
Originally Posted by M_and_J
I called the Nottinghamshire Police HQ and they emailed the form the same day.
Filled them in, sent them in with a cheque for £10 and a week later my girlfriend's *clean* report arrived. Mine arrived a few weeks later, just within the 40 days the say it will take. I believe they state this time limit because if there *is* something on your record, it takes a while to collate all the information from the various forces. In my case, there was still a conditional discharge from 10 years ago on file - I thought it would be gone by now, given it's relatively minor nature, but I guess not. Anyway, I don't think it will affect the application, but only time will tell!
Filled them in, sent them in with a cheque for £10 and a week later my girlfriend's *clean* report arrived. Mine arrived a few weeks later, just within the 40 days the say it will take. I believe they state this time limit because if there *is* something on your record, it takes a while to collate all the information from the various forces. In my case, there was still a conditional discharge from 10 years ago on file - I thought it would be gone by now, given it's relatively minor nature, but I guess not. Anyway, I don't think it will affect the application, but only time will tell!
(1)
5 years have passed and it's considered "spent"
(2)
A conditional discharge means that it was a minor offence, probably* not an indictable offence under canadian law
* i say probably because i don't know the actual offence.
Good luck with your application