November

NI Direct Account

If you order criminal checks in Northern Ireland, and haven't yet created your new NI Direct account, we encourage you to do so now.  Guidance can be found here.  We are more than happy to walk you through the process if this helps.

Certificates

Digital certificates are now being issued to all candidates unless convictions are being disclosed.  Candidates can share the electronic certificate with you via their AcessNI account.  Certificates that include convictions are always posted and all candidates can opt to receive a posted certificate if they wisih.

There is plenty of guidance for candidates on the  AccessNI website.  Our Candidate Team are also available to help candidates.

EU Member States

For enhanced checks and when the role includes regulated activity with children, AccessNI requests information on nationals from 9 EU Member States. Due to delays of 6 weeks or more obtaining this information from Poland and Romania, AccessNI has suspended requesting criminal record information from those countries. Verifile can provide a criminal check in Poland, or candidates can be asked to provide a certificate of good conduct. Once delays have been resolved, AccessNI will re-start the request of criminal record information for nationals of Poland and Romania, and we will update you accordingly.

We would like to bring the following changes to our international product offering to your attention.

British Virgin Islands Criminal Check: A new instruction is in place to reflect simplified requirements.
Spain Criminal Check: Costa Rica Judicial Registry of the Executive Directorate of the Judiciary have slightly changed the application forms and will no longer accept the old forms. The new application forms are now in place to reflect this change.
Chile Directorship Check: A new instruction is in place to reflect a change in scope of this service and requirements. Going forward, this search will cover current directorships and current and past shareholdings. Historic directorship information is no longer available. 
France Criminal Check: A new instruction is in place to reflect the requirement to provide the candidate’s current address of residence.
​Ireland Criminal Record Check: We are no longer offering a criminal records check from Garda Síochána. The check that was designed to screen individuals for positions through which they have unsupervised access to children and/or vulnerable adults is now only available to organizations with a registered office in the Republic of Ireland.

If you would like us to send you current documentation for any of the checks listed, please request via  service@verifile.co.uk.