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We can assist to get your police clearance certificate, whether you are in South Africa or in another country.
What is a police clearance?
Also known in other countries as a criminal record check / criminal background check / record of good standing. It is an official certificate issued by the Criminal Record Centre (CRC) of the South African Police Services (SAPS), which declares that you don’t have any criminal record against you.
Who needs a police clearance?
What does it mean to attest a document? Please note that various terms are being used by different embassies to describe the same thing. Other terms being used:
NOTARISING, VERIFICATION, RATIFICATION
To have a document attested (notarised / verified / ratified) means that the document must be inspected and approved by the embassy of the country where the document is going to be used.
No document could be submitted to an embassy as it is; it first has to be authenticated by one or more South African government departments.
(Apostilling / Apostillisation and Authentication)
All official documents must be legalised in order to be used in another country. This function is performed only by one office in South Africa, namely the legalisation section of the Department of International Relations and Co-operation (DIRCO).
The legalisation of a document means that DIRCO will check and investigate if the signature on a document is authentic. Once they have confirmed that the signature (and therefore the document too) are authentic, they will either Apostillise or Authenticate the document.
A document that has been Apostilled, will be accepted in the recipient country without any further query or investigation. A document that has been Authenticated usually still has to be attested by the embassy of the country in which it is going to be used.
An employer in a foreign country may request you to have one or more of your documents to be translated in the official language of that country.
You can’t just ask anyone who speaks that language to translate your document; it has to be an official translation, done by a sworn translator who is registered with the High Court.
We could assist to get your documents translated officially. Next, we could assist to get both the original document and the translated version legalised or attested.
This is a service we offer to recruitment agencies and employers who need to verify the qualification certificates submitted to them by applicants.
These could be:
How many times did we hear in the news about people in top positions who lied about their qualifications? Don’t let that happen to you or your company! We will verify the qualifications of your current employees or new candidates who apply for a certain position – and give you peace of mind that the qualification is in order.
If you did commit a minor crime more than 10 years ago, or you were convicted for political reasons, or for something that would be regarded as unconstitutional today, and you wish to clear your criminal record, we could assist you to do so – in a legal way, via the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development.
For serious crimes like rape and murder, an application for expungement is not possible.
The first step would be to obtain a police clearance certificate – on which the criminal offense and the date will be given. This will be required for your application for expungement.
If you don’t have a recent police clearance certificate, we will assist you to get one.
We will take care of the entire process, which could take 6 months or even more.
Normally you would be expected to obtain your official documents yourself, but we are available to act as your representative and obtain it on your behalf.
We will interact with any issuing body on your behalf that is willing to accept a Power of Attorney from you in which you appoint us to be your representative in order to apply for, and collect a certain official document.
Once we have obtained the document, we will courier it to you, or, if it is needed for use outside South Africa, we will first take it through the legalisation process before sending it to you per courier.
Services that we cater for in regards to marriage and marriage registration:
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