Singapore

Procedures

If you are unable to provide a police certificate you must provide a separate statutory declaration in both English and your own language, detailing your attempts to obtain a police certificate and stating whether you and any accompanying family members have been found guilty or convicted of, or charged with offences against the law in that country, or have not been charged with any offences against the law of that country. This statutory declaration should also be corroborated by other information attesting to your character.

If police certificates become a year old from date of issue before a decision is made on an application, visa and immigration officers may request further police certificates. Further police certificates may also be requested within the 12 month period if there is good reason to do so.

The procedures for obtaining a police certificate for some countries state that the police authorities will only send the certificate direct to Immigration New Zealand. It is recommended that in such cases applicants should request their police certificate three months prior to lodging their application for a residence visa or permit. It is also recommended that such applicants provide Immigration New Zealand with a copy of the receipt for the requested police certificate (if this is available) to assist Immigration New Zealand in tracking their certificate.

Residence  

• All applicants aged 17 years or over are required to provide police certificates at the time a residence application is lodged unless there is a different instruction in the country-specific information (see below).
• If you have lived for periods of twelve months or more in any other countries during the last ten years, you must obtain additional police certificates from these countries, and also your country(ies) of citizenship unless you can provide satisfactory evidence that you have never lived there.
• Police certificates must be less than six months old at the time you lodge your residence application.

Temporary Entry Visa or Permit

• All applicants aged 17 years or over who are working, visiting or studying in New Zealand for twenty four months or longer are required to provide a police certificate.
• The police certificate is to be provided at the time you lodge your application unless there is a different instruction in the country-specific information (see below).
• Applicants must supply a police certificate from any country in which they have lived for 5 years or more since attaining the age of 17 years as well as their country(ies) of citizenship, unless they can provide satisfactory evidence that they have never lived there.

Specific procedure for Singapore

Singapore nationals in Singapore – obtain an explanatory letter from the New Zealand High Commission in Singapore, then call in person at the: 

Criminal Record Office
Blk D Police Cantonment Complex
#02-01A 
391 North Bridge Road
Singapore 088762

 

to complete the fingerprint and application forms, and submit the following for verification:

1. identity card
2. 3 recent passport size photographs
3. fee for the certificate to be issued in duplicate
4. current and past international passports/travel documents showing immigration endorsements for the computation of the period you stayed in Singapore
5. Singapore employment pass or work permit
6. valid Exit Permit/Exemption photographs of applicant
7. certificate issued by Central Man Power Base, Ministry of Defence, Singapore for persons liable for National Service.

Singapore nationals in New Zealand – obtain an explanatory letter from Immigration New Zealand and apply directly to:

Head of Criminal Records
CID (CNCC)
391 New Bridge Road
Blk C Police Cantonment Complex
Singapore 088762

The application must be made on application and fingerprint forms CRO75 and NP22, available from:   

Singapore High Commission
17 Kabul Street
Khandallah
Wellington (PO Box 29023)

 

The application forms and requirements can be seen at www.spf.gov.sg/epc/cert_issued.htm.

The application must be accompanied by photocopies of your:

1. current and past international passports/travel documents showing immigration endorsements for the computation of the period you stayed in Singapore
2. Singapore employment pass or work permit
3. valid Exit Permit Exemption Certificate issued by Central Man Power Base, Ministry of Defence, Singapore for persons liable for National Service
4. fee, as advised by the Singapore High Commission
5. postage charges.

Note: Bank drafts or cheques must be made payable to The Officer-in-charge, Criminal Record Office, for the total amount at current exchange rates in Singapore dollars only.