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[pirateinpanama]

Always bring a police record from home. This will be required in most countries in order to get a work permit (if necessary). Most of the time you have to do this "in person." Recently I�ve seen people making trips back to Canada or the USA just to get these.
Having a police report with you may save you from a major headache. Good luck to all!

[Adrienne]

Is this just done at your local PD?

[Guy Courchesne]

Is this for Panama? I heard that Chile requires it, then later heard from someone teaching there that it wasn't needed after all. Mexico does not require it.

[Ben Round de Bloc]

I've never heard of foreigners having to provide a police report from "back home" here in La Rep�blica de Yucat�n either. Here, unlike locals, foreigners don't even have to provide potential employers with an acta de no penales (report from local police department stating they've never been arrested for commiting a crime.)

[MELEE]

Way back in 1995, I had to submit a police report to the Ecuadorian Consul in Boston to get my cultural exchange visa for Ecuador. The funny thing is it had to be from a PD in that state, I got it from the Springfield, MA Police Department. I was only visiting my x's mother there and had been in Mass for three weeks. As I understood it, they ran a check on my name to see if I was wanted at the time, but didn't check for previous convictions .

I had a teacher apply here once, that I really wished I could have asked for this for. He didn't have a passport, as an American he came in with only his birth certificate, which is legal in Mexico. But when I said he'd have to get a passport for me to process him as a new employee he went all funny.

[Guy Courchesne]