If you have served your sentence, the law says the past expires. We make sure the register actually reflects it: deadlines properly calculated, application filed, and a final verification.
Walk through the requirements of article 136 of the Criminal Code, calculate your exact clearing date and take away a guidance summary. Free, no sign-up, and nothing leaves your browser. (Tool available in Spanish.)
From the moment the sentence is extinguished (served) and with no new offences, records can be cleared after:
Two nuances that change cases: the clock runs from the extinction of the sentence (not from the judgment — and if the sentence was suspended or substituted, the calculation has its own rules), and civil liability must be paid or insolvency declared. Getting the starting point wrong is mistake number one.
In theory, clearing can even happen automatically. In practice, trusting the automatism is a gamble: registers do not always purge themselves, and finding out in the middle of a hiring process or with a citizenship application already filed is the worst possible moment. The professional way: expressly apply for the clearing before the Central Register of Convicted Persons (Ministry of Justice — the clearing procedure is free of charge), wait for the decision and verify afterwards with a certificate that the register is genuinely clean.
Different from criminal records: these are the entries for arrests and investigations kept in police files — even if there was never a conviction. They do not show on the criminal record certificate, but they can weigh in specific administrative matters. They have their own clearing route before the Ministry of the Interior, with its own requirements. A complete clean-up file reviews both registers — the difference between cleaning the façade and cleaning the house.
We calculate your exact deadlines from your sentencing paperwork, prepare and file the application (criminal and, where relevant, police records), track the file and close it with the final certificate check. A fixed written quote after reviewing your case — and if you are not yet within the deadline, we tell you the exact date you will be, for free.
Write to us with the basic details of your conviction (judgment date, penalty and when you finished serving it) and we reply within 24–48 working hours.
Updated daily from official sources (BOE, ministries and public bodies).
The criminal record certificate can be obtained online at the Ministry of Justice e-office with a digital certificate or Cl@ve. The cancellation request, however, is a separate file worth preparing properly.
Record certificates have limited administrative validity (typically around 3 months depending on the receiving body). Requesting them too early is the classic reason for repeating the step in immigration and nationality files.
