# AIMA request - apostilled police clearance certificate from country of birth/passport for main applicant

**URL:** <https://community.nomadgate.com/t/aima-request-apostilled-police-clearance-certificate-from-country-of-birth-passport-for-main-applicant/78758>\
**Category:** Portugal Golden Visa\
**Tags:** portugal, golden-visa\
**Created:** [October 31, 2026, 9:23am UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/aima-request-apostilled-police-clearance-certificate-from-country-of-birth-passport-for-main-applicant/78758 "2026-10-31T09:23:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![PTbound](https://community.nomadgate.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/dbc845/32.png) [@PTbound](https://community.nomadgate.com/u/PTbound)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2026, 9:47am UTC](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/aima-request-apostilled-police-clearance-certificate-from-country-of-birth-passport-for-main-applicant/78758/2 "2026-10-31T09:47:43Z")

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Our GV applications hit the same snag back in August (for _both_ Primary and Dependent), leading to a frantic [quest for apostilled Canadian criminal records](https://community.nomadgate.com/t/citizenship-processing-delays/74811/543). Canada is currently taking about 60 calendar days just to apostille police records that PT only considers valid for 90 days 🙄

AIMA’s justification (right or wrong) was _“the provisions of Articles 117 and 118 of the Code of Administrative Procedure.”_ With AIMA it’s sometimes easier/faster to just give in than try fight the borg.

I don’t think your husband and I are the only Primaries who have been asked by AIMA for crim records from our place of birth. I recall others writing about it on NG maybe a year ago?

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