Hello guys,

My fiance has resided in 3 different cities for more than 6 months each since turning 16 in India. Is she required to produce a police clearance certificate for each city she has lived in for more than 6 months or will just one suffice. I did a search for this and I found some saying only one is required and others saying a certificate is required for each city. The New Delhi embassy web page says this :



It seems to imply that only one is required but I need to be sure. Email queries to them have been gone unanswered. Thanks.

Only 1 is required, as that is what I got.

Hi CKS,
We've been in the same boat as you. My fiance is from Delhi, and is living there now, but several years ago he worked in Mumbai for 2 years. We having been trying to figure out if we needed an additional police clearance for Mumbai, and the Delhi embassy seems to consider it sport to ignore my email questions.

But...

Today he got through to them on the phone and was told this: he needs the clearance from the district
office where he currently lives (Delhi) and the clearance from the passport office (as his passport was issued in April, more than 6 months ago) and that is all. No additional clearances are needed from other places within India.

So, definitive answer from the embassy themselves. Hope this helps and good luck.

Thank you for the reply. I still have not heard from them and I was simply going to go with the assumption that only one police verification letter is required along with the letter from the passport office. Thanks for taking the time to provide this information to me and and everyone else going through the Delhi embassy. It is much appreciated.

For all those searching for how to get police clearance certificates in delhi (other than from passport office)

you dont go to the district police office - although you need clearance from the district police office.

you have to go to the Deputy Commisioner of Police for your District
Take iwht you the documentation from the embassy that you need a police clearance certificate for immigration, a copy of your passport, and proof of residence.

The paper you complete with them, goes to the district police office.
then the district police officer comes to your neighborhood/house, does his routine, and then sends the form back to the Deputy Commisioner.

then you go pick it up
we havent gotten ours back yet - but they told us a week.

In order to know we were supposed to go to the Deputy Commissioner, we had to call my husbands AUnt that lives in Canada. She used to be a police officer here in India, so she called her friend here which she used to work with, who in turn called another friend. I dont know how other people in the past have figured this out.


sam