Police clearance certificate is essential when you are likely to get temporarily settle in the foreign. Even, your employer may ask to submit it while appointing you in the form. Simply put, this is a significant legal document that discloses criminal background, if there is any.

Every ward or district has its own police commissioner that puts his stamp and signature on it. In foreign, it is valid for six months. Thereafter, it is to be renewed and submitted to the competent foreign ministry.

Procedure to Apply for it in Mumbai Online

Here is the procedure that can help you apply for the PCC in Mumbai online: 

• Visit the link: https://pcs.mahaonline.gov.in/Forms/Home.aspx
• Click as being a New User radio button.
• A registration form will pop up. Fill personal, address and other information, providing valid details.
• Hit the ‘Submit’ button.
• Now, you need to upload supporting documents. It’s a bit tricky job, as you need to upload them in a standard size, meeting the guideline. Each document should be sized in between 75kb and 100 kb. A PDF compressor can make your day. Just upload your documents in it and re-size them all. A few tools are advanced enough that you don’t need to crop or resize the document. These can crop your signature and photograph automatically.

Once you have done with their size, upload them to the maha website.

• Get the receipt number or code online and save it somewhere on the desktop so that you can get its access instantly later.

Payment Mode

This service is chargeable. So, you need to pay a nominal fee, which is around INR150. This competent authority can revise it anytime. It’s always better to ask about it prior.

Physical Visit to Nearby Station    

Once you have applied PCC online, it won’t be verified. You need to physically see the police officer in the nearby police station. As far as the day of appointment is concerned, it is not fixed. You can generally go there in two days from the date of payment. Else, you have seven days to have it from there. If you exceed those days, your application will be cancelled. There is no provision to reimburse the paid amount.  Be aware of this fact.

Here, take along with the photocopy and originals of supporting documents. The police commissioner may ask for cross-verification of those docs.

A Call Upon Approval

The local police department will contact you within 1 or 2 days through an SMS notification on behalf of Maharashtra government. This would be a confirmation message. Subsequently, the one from the SP or CP office will contact you for informing about the receiving of that certificate. It would describe how you can get it downloaded from the website.

This police website does not support updated version of the browser. So, you should raise a request for downloading with the old browser. This experience would be seamless if you use chrome or Mozilla of the version appeared before 2016. Alternatively, you can ask a person in the nearby cyber café to print it out.

If you are encountering challenges in meeting your filling form purpose, ask a professional. The system operators or data entry executives in the cyber café can help you out. Even, they can resize the photographs and documents corresponding to the given standards so that you won’t face off delays or more challenges. This trick can also save time for you. Mostly NRIs prefer this option to ensure quick submission of their PCC application.