Overview
This Criminal Record Check or Police Clearances requires for
visa, immigration and other legal purposes. The Bermuda Police Service
issues the Criminal Record Check or Police Clearance Certificates. These
Clearances including verification of the applicants fingerprint impressions
for issuing Police Clearance Certificate. Criminal History Check Records
gives the details of previously recorded Criminal Convictions.
Procedure of
Getting Clearance Certificate
In order to obtain a police clearance certificate
from Bermuda, applicant should write an application letter explaining why
police clearance certificate is being requested. Documentary prove of legal
stay in Bermuda is also required for this process. You have to fill the
prescribed application form in all sections completed in BLOCK CAPITALS with
black ink provided by our organization. Obtained a complete set of 10
fingerprint impressions* taken by a qualified fingerprint officer at our lab.
The original of the fingerprints must be posted with your completed application
form. The current processing time is 1 month for PCC.
Documents required
for PCC
- Fully Completed Prescribed Application Form signed by the
applicant
- Submitted on Bermuda Police Service application form SF39
- Completed and signed by the applicant themselves
- Submitted directly by the applicant or by the applicant’s nominee
- If a nominee is acting on the applicant’s behalf, signed consent
from the applicant identifying the nominee must be provided
- Attested photocopies of your passports (All Pages) either by our
Organization or Notary Public of the Current Passport and passport which you
used while you were in Bermuda
- 4 passport size colored photos (3×3, 5 cm, from one and the
same negative) with white background
- Certified copy of your work Permit/Appointment Letter/Dependent
Pass etc.
- Fingerprint impressions of both hands is duly attested by our
organization on a prescribed fingerprint form
- A detailed self-explanatory letter stating the period of stay in
Bermuda and need for the said certificate
- Description form (Personal Particular) attested by our
organization
- Copy of Bermuda Identity Card. (if any)
Processing Time
We will give the original certificate within 1
month under normal mode of processing. (The
processing time will increases if a person was ever charged by the police)
Processing Fee
Applicable Fee with Processing charges.
Payment is non-refundable once the application
is processed.
Police
Certificate Issuing Authority
Administration Department
P.O. Box HM 530
Bermuda Police Service,
Hamilton, HMCX Bermuda
Address of Embassy in India
Solomon Islands
Consular Section
Check-list of Documents
Before leaving our office
please ensure that documents in order-
- Fully Completed application Form
- Fingerprint Form duly attested by our Organization (or similar
fingerprint form)
- Two Recent coloured Passport size Photograph
- Certified copies of two identification documents
- Documentary proof of legal stay in Bermuda
- Application processing fees