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How to obtain a Police Certificate

Please apply for a police clearance certificate for each person aged 16 (for turning 16) and
over. In order for DIAC to determine whether you are of good character, you must provide
police certificates from every country in which you lived in for 12 months or more during the
past 10 years.

Procedures

Please access further information on the procedures and requirements for this from the
document assigned for your under Application documents:

> Medicals & police clearance forms:

Refer to
> Character Requirements Penal Clearance Certificates (formerly known as Form 47P)
for complete instructions.

When you have your police clearances, please scan and upload for us, and then send the
original police clearances to ASA’s office

Please inform us of the following:

- The date that the police clearances were applied for.

Where possible, please refer to the following information on “Character Requirement Penal
Clearance Certificates (formerly known as Form 47P)” which provides the contact addresses
for applicants to obtain Police Certificates. If the country you come from is not listed in the
information, or instructions are not given about a country of which you are an ex-citizen or
resident, you should make your own enquiries about where to obtain a Police Certificate.

If you are unable to provide a Police Certificate, you must provide a separate Statutory
Declaration, in English, detailing your attempts to obtain a Police Certificate and stating
whether you have been found guilty or convicted of, or charged with, offences against the law
in that country. This Statutory Declaration should also be corroborated by other information
attesting to your character.

DIAC will only accept original Police Certificates that are need to be valid when you make your
initial entry into Australia and the police clearance certificates are only valid for 12 months. If
the police clearance expires before the application is finalised, DIAC may be request you take
your Police Certificates again at the applicant's cost.

Please aware of Changes for obtaining Australian Federal Police Clearance

(Dated 24 Feb 2009)

On 23 December, the fact the Australian Federal Police has a new form for applications for
AFP checks. It is the National Police Check Application Form. This form is for all requests for
national police checks, including those for migration purposes. The new form can be found on
your application documents.

Updated 25 Feb 2009

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Until now you have been able to use the new form, or the old Form 1101, but DIAC has just
announced that Form 1101 is no longer to be used, and that the new form is to be used
from now on. (The AFP will be sensible about this. They will accept the old Form 1101 for a
little while longer - for example, if your client signed Form 1101 today and you will send it to
AFP tomorrow - or very soon.)

This information will shortly be updated onto the Character Requirements - Penal Clearance
Certificates (formerly known as Form 47P) document.

Code Number
When you use the National Police Check Application Form, please ensure that for Question 4
(Purpose of NPC) on page 2, you enter the Code Number: 33. These codes, found on page 4
of the application form, are to indicate the purpose of the application. Code 33 is for
Immigration/Citizenship. Already the AFP is complaining that people are not entering the code
number. The application will not be processed without that code number.
Fingerprints are not required.

Further information including information about fees, can be found at the Australian Federal
Police website: http://www.afp.gov.au/business/national_police_checks.html

DIAC has also advised:

"AFP have recently received a number of phone calls from DIAC clients who have been
advised to request a Transaction ID number. AFP are unable to provide this number, it is not a
DIAC requirement and does not expedite the processing of a client's application."

"Police checks for online lodged General Skilled Migration (GSM) visa applications

If you are lodging an online onshore GSM visa, you do not need to provide the transaction ID
for your Australian Federal Police (AFP) check with your GSM visa application.

The AFP has advised that the transaction ID can only be provided when the check is
completed. It is not necessary to contact the AFP to obtain the transaction ID in order for you
to lodge your GSM visa application.

Note: You must have already submitted the request for an AFP check before you lodge your
GSM visa application.

Information in this document

The information contained in this document was, to the best of our knowledge, current at the
time of publication. ASA cannot accept responsibility if information contained in this document
proves to be incorrect at a later date should authorities in other countries amend their rules.
ASA would appreciate advice on any changes that come to the notice of applicants.

Updated 25 Feb 2009