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Please be advised that the Embassy of Ireland, Spain website has moved and this page is no longer being updated. The Embassy website is now available at Ireland.ie/madrid.

Police Clearance Certificates (“Penales”)

You may be asked for a Police clearance certificate (“certificado de penales”) if you lived and worked for a period of time in Spain.

To apply for a Spanish police clearance certificate, which certifies the absence or existence of a criminal record in Spain, the website of the Spanish Ministry of Justice has comprehensive information on the procedure in English.