Dear Forum Members
In this post, I am going to explain all the possible ways by which you can get police clearance certificate from Kuwait when you are in some overseas country.
I struggled a lot and collected lot of information to get my Police Certificate from Kuwait while I was staying in Saudi Arabia.
I will explain all the required documents and procedure to get it one by one. I found three ways to get this certificate.
Method 1- Visiting Kuwaiti Consulate.
Documents Required:
1. An application or request by you to the name of Consular (Preferably in Arabic)- Orginal (please mention why you need)
2. Your Resident VISA or copy of Civil ID
3. Your old Passport copy
4. Your current passport copy
5. 6-Passport size picture with white background
6. Verified Finger Prints: It is an important document, In countries like GCC you can use police clearance certificate (as they have finger prints on the back) as fingerprint form. If not, then contact some authorized Bio Scan company or your respective police department of your residing country if they can provide you with signed and stamped fingerprints. Once you have managed fingerprint form or (police certificate of your residing country with fingerprints on the back). Get it attested from Ministry of Foreign Affairs of your country.
7. A letter of request: It is also required but it becomes difficult to get as (Embassies Canadain and Australian) do not issues letter to authorities other than the country of its location. I mean, if am in Saudi Arabia then Candian Embassy can issue me a letter for Saudi Authorities such as Ministry of Foreign Affair Saudi Arabia or Ministry of Interior Saudi Arabia but, it will not issue a letter addressed to the embassy of Kuwait. This letter you have to manage from CIC or Immi Aust by contacting your Case officer. If you want to manage it before hand contact with the embassy of your home country and ask them you need this letter. Once you get this letter, get it attested from the ministry of foreign affairs of your country as well.
Submit all the documents along with application fee (which is around 15 - 20 KWD) and take a receipt.
You will get the police certificate from 3 to 6 months time. Yes, it is a very time-consuming method, if you are in hurry use the Method-2.
Method 2- Sending a Representative.
This method is quick and time efficient. But, you can not send any person as your representative.
You must choose a Lawer or a representative of your company (Mandoob) where you have worked.
But, for that in addition to all above documents, you must need the following documents attested from Kuwait Embassy
1. A Letter of Attorney (In the Arabic Language or translation), to the name of the person whom you have appointed as representative.
Get this attorney attested from Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Foreign Affairs or only from Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Kuwaiti Embassy will not attest it without aforementioned verifications.
2. Letter of Request attested from Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Kuwait Embassy.
3. Finger Print form attested from Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Kuwait Embassy.
3. An application or request by you to the name of Consular (Preferably in Arabic)- Orginal (please mention why you need)
4. Your Resident VISA or copy of Civil ID
5. Your old Passport copy
6. Your current passport copy
7. 6-Passport size picture with white background
Once your documents are received in Kuwait, asked your representative to get them attested from Kuwait Ministry of Foreign Affairs and then submit it to:
Ministry of the Interior
General Department for Criminal Evidence
Department of Identification and Automated Search
Farwaniya-Dhajeej area
Airport Road 55, opposite the Kuwait Airways main building.
Phone: +965 2 434-6101. Fax: +965 2 434-5790.
Your representative can get this certificate in one week.