Criminal record certificate

• Through Online Criminal Record, (portuguese citizens only) by authenticating with your Portuguese Citizen Card or with the Digital Mobile Key [Chave Móvel Digital (CMD)] if it was obtained with your Citizen Card:
  • After making the request, an ATM reference for payment of the due fee will be provided and, once the payment is made, the certificate will be available at Online Criminal Record  / “My Requests”, as soon as it is issued.

• Personally, in any attendance services (only by appointment), where it is possible the issue of certificates.
  • While some attendance services at Lojas do Cidadão are closed, the request may be made using the form/request available for this purpose. Read the instructions on the form.
• If you live abroad please read the instructions (below) on "I live abroad".

• The proof of his/her quality as the ascendant of the minor child, or the tutor or curator of the incapacitated person;
• The citizen card or ID card, or other valid and qualified document, of the person for whom is requested the certificate.

• Through Online Criminal Record, by authenticating with your Portuguese Citizen Card (CC), using a data card reader and your CC Pin, or with the Digital Mobile Key [Chave Móvel Digital (CMD)] if it was obtained with citizen card.
  • After making the request, an ATM reference for payment of the due fee will be provided and, once the payment is made, the certificate will be available at Online Criminal Record / “My Requests”, as soon as it is issued.
• Personally, in any attendance services (only by appointment), where it is possible the issue of certificates. 
  It is necessary to prove that you are the legal representative and you must identify yourself with your citizen card or ID card or other valid and qualified identification document confirming yourself (photo and signature) and NIF.
  The personal request is merely verbal, without filling in any form. Only a receipt of the request must be signed and the paymente made.
  Attendance services, where it is possible the issue of certificates:
  • in Central Authority desks - Balcões dos Serviços de Identificação Criminal (DSIC) only by appointment
  • while attendance services at Loja do Cidadão Lisboa - Laranjeiras and Loja do Cidadão Porto are closed, the request may be made using the form/request available for this purpose. Read the instructions on the form.
  • In Courts - Unidades Centrais ou Juízos de Proximidade de Secretarias de Tribunais de Comarca only by appointment

• The personal request is merely verbal, without filling in any form. Only a receipt of the request must be signed and the payment made.
• When making the request, you must present your citizen card or ID card, passport or other valid and qualified identification document that can confirm that it is you (photo and signature) and you will be asked to verify the necessary information about the identification for issuing (name, place of birth, date of birth, parentage, nationality).

• Your identification (full name and citizen card number or identity card, passport or other valid and qualified document with signature) and, if applicable, your condition as legal representative; 
• The identification of the authorized person (full name and citizen card number or ID card or other valid and qualified document with signature); 
• A declaration stating that you authorize the identified person to apply for the certificate and clearly mention the purpose of the certificate; 
• Your signature, according to the document mentioned in the authorization.

The authorized person must apply for the certificate personally at any of the attendance services  (only by appointment), where it is possible the issue of certificates. The authorized person must present:

• The authorization of the applicant, or of the representative of the legal person
• Her/his identification document mentioned in the authorization
• The identification document of the holder of the information mentioned in the authorization, or its certified copy (the copy of the identification document must be signed by the holder and with written mention: “this copy of my identification document is only to request my criminal record certificate”)
• In the case of a legal person, a document attesting his/her status as the legal representative of the company (for example, with the permanent certificate of the company, or a current certificate from the commercial register).