Question regarding Police Character Certificates for IR1

[hasheesha 45]

Hey folks,

I had a question regarding when you would be required to get a PCC. My wife lived in Karachi with her parents through high school, undergard and work. She then went to Lahore for her post graduate degree for two years. After completing her post graduate, she returned home and has been working there.

So will my wife only need a PCC from Karachi, or will she also need one from Lahore for the time she was living in a dorm during her post grad?

Thanks for your help!

[Lovemad 7]

Hey folks,

I had a question regarding when you would be required to get a PCC. My wife lived in Karachi with her parents through high school, undergard and work. She then went to Lahore for her post graduate degree for two years. After completing her post graduate, she returned home and has been working there.

So will my wife only need a PCC from Karachi, or will she also need one from Lahore for the time she was living in a dorm during her post grad?

Thanks for your help!

Hi,

She would only need one PCC per country, as PCCs are issued on a country by country basis (unless anyone knows any exceptions to this rule). So even if your wife has lived in multiple cities, provided they are in the one country, she will only need one PCC to cover the time she has lived in that country. Hope this helps.

[hasheesha 45]

Thanks for your quick response!

Unfortunately, Pakistan does not have a central Police register so applicants have to submit certificates from every jurisdiction where they have lived for a period of time. I was wondering if living in a dorm while attending college corresponds to living in that jurisdiction for over 6 months (even though there are breaks in which she would be in Karachi).

Thoughts?

[RAAJ 1]

she needs police certificate from all local police stations where she lived for more then 6 months. but if she lived in a dorm for education she wont need any. i stayed in karachi for my education and i mentioned it in my form and they never asked for my pcc from karachi but they asked my pcc for all other areas of pakistan wherever i lived for more then 6 months. so even if they ask for pcc from lahore (while she was studying and living in hostel) just write a simple letter on plain paper to them and tell them that she was living in hostel for education and never lived there for continuous 6 months so local police station is not entitled to give her police certificate.

[RAAJ 1]

Hi,

She would only need one PCC per country, as PCCs are issued on a country by country basis (unless anyone knows any exceptions to this rule). So even if your wife has lived in multiple cities, provided they are in the one country, she will only need one PCC to cover the time she has lived in that country. Hope this helps.

we wish we had such an organised and centralized police system here in pakistan like PCC in UK. lol.

i was in pakistan and still it was so easy for me to get police certificate from uk police for 6 years i lived there. everything was online

but here in pak we have to go local police station of every jurisdiction to cover all areas wherever we lived

[Rass 1]

She has to obtain a police certificate for all the places she lived in for more than 6 months. Karachi and Lahore both in her case.

[dvd 1]

Does anybody know if this is the case with India? I think India has a centralized system. Can someone confirm?

[lubnajavid 20]

Your wife will need to get a police certificate from each city that she has lived since the age of 16.

In my wife's case this was 3 cities...

we got all three and sent at the time of the initial NVC request... and then again got a new police certificate just in case for the most recent place she has been living now, at the time of the interview.

In my opinion its best to play things safe and give things they don't want/need than not give something they want.