Are you planning on travelling overseas and wondering which countries require police clearance certificate? The answer to this is clear and unequivocal; you need a police clearance certificate whenever you’re going to apply for a visa, no matter which country you’re travelling to.
The visas may vary according to your reasons for going overseas, such as applying for a work visa so that you can work overseas, or a study visa in order to study overseas, but they all require the most important document, which is a Police Clearance Certificate (PCC).
A police clearance certificate assures the country you’re traveling to that you don’t have a criminal record against your name, and that you aren’t wanted by the police, in other words, that you are a person of good standing.
No one wants to invite a criminal into their country, which is why there are such strict laws about need a police clearance certificate. The war on illegal immigration and human trafficking are examples of what makes it so important to each country to do their best to keep undesirables out of their countries.
Which countries require police clearance certificate?
Your best bet when it comes to finding out definitively which countries require a police clearance certificate, would be to contact the experienced team at Doc Assist.
This team deals with clients in South Africa and those that live overseas, when it comes to applying for police clearance certificates, and they know this area as well as they know the back of their hands.
Police clearance certificates aren’t the only documents the team at Doc Assist are able to assist clients with. These document procurement specialists have an extensive list of services that include but aren’t limited to;
Translation services
Notary services
Apostille of documents
Drivers licenses
Matric/school certificates
Academic documents
SARS
Marriage certificates
Death Certificates
E2 Visa (South Korea)
British Documents
Embassy verification…and more
Experience that counts for you!
With this much experience and more, Doc Assist is able to de-mystify everything to do with applying for a police clearance certificate.
They do it with a professional friendliness that makes it a pleasure to have to tackle what are usually frustrating experiences, especially when it comes to applying for a police clearance certificate.
Instead of waiting up to three months for your police clearance certificate, Doc Assist will expedite the entire process in less than half the time.
Once you contact Doc Assist for a quotation to apply for a police clearance certificate, they will let you know what the latest processing time is.
At this point, expedited applications can be processed in plus/minus 10-15 working days, but it’s best for you to keep in touch with the team via email to keep updated with processing times in the meantime.
Despite the fact that they can expedite your application, they are also somewhat dependent on the SAPS backlog and won’t mislead you in any way, when it comes to your application.
Contacting Doc Assist is very easy, as this team is on the ball and keeps up with all correspondence, you can email the team here and you’ll get a quick, professional response, which is exactly what you can expect from these professionals.