Alicomn

We have been thinking about emigrating to Australia for quite a while now and would like to start making enquiries about what is involved in the emigration process. How do we go about obtaining a police check and what bearing do the results have on our chances of being accepted? My husband has a police record from 1984, would this still be relevant?. Any advice please.

Pollyana

Assuming that you are emigrating from the UK, you get a Subject Access form from your local police HQ (if you're not sure where that is, tell me your nearest town/city and I can probably work it out from that). The check costs £10.
Your husband's conviction MAY still be on file, depends what it is, what the sentence was, and whether it was a one-off offence. If it is a single offence from 1984 it might well have been weeded by now.
Whether it makes a difference goes by much the same rules - what the offence and sentence were, and how serious the offence was. Generally if there was no prison sentence involved you should be OK, if there was imprisonment you may need more stuff like character references.

if you want to discuss the offence in any more detail you can send me a pm or an e-mail via the site. I can't tell you exactly what DIMIA will say, but I can put the offence into context compared to others who have gone through the process (I used to work for the police doing vetting).

Alicomn

Thank you pollyana for your advice and offer of help. I will be back to you soon.

Pollyana

No problems and good luck

Bordy

And now work for the Firemen. Is there a pattern emerging here???

Pollyana

And a major motoring organisation inbetween but their uniforms weren't quite as fetching!