Criminal record certificate from the Dominican Republic for a Spanish nationality file: who issues it and how long it stays valid
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In short
- Criminal record: The Procuraduría General (PGR) offers the Certificación de Buena Conducta online or in person; we found no page saying whether the online service works from abroad, nor any Dominican validity period (Spain's order counts a certificate with none as valid six months).
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Last checked: 19 October 2026. Check the official page: sede.mjusticia.gob.es.
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1. Criminal record certificate
The Dominican government's service portal lists the Procuraduría General de la República (PGR, the Attorney General's Office) as the body that offers the Certificación de Buena Conducta.[1] It says the document certifies that the applicant has no judicial record, and that it is addressed to all citizens, Dominican or foreign.[2][3]
The PGR's requirements page says the certificate can be requested in person at any of its Centros de Atención al Ciudadano or through its online services at www.pgr.gob.do.[4] For the online route it lists registering on the PGR service portal first[5]; the certificate is then shown on screen and can be printed, saved or sent by email.[6] We found no official page saying whether the online service can be used from outside the Dominican Republic: ask the PGR or a Dominican consulate.
The same page gives RD$800.00 (Dominican pesos) for the online request, available 24 hours, with the time shown as "Inmediato" (immediate).[7] In person it gives RD$800.00 and a time of 5 minutes.[8]
The website of the Dominican embassy in Spain says the Dominican Republic, through its delegations abroad, offers the Certificado de No Antecedentes Penales to Dominican citizens and to foreigners who have lived in the Dominican Republic.[9] Its list of requirements includes being at least 18 and, for Dominican citizens, the Cédula de Identidad y Electoral.[10] It adds that, depending on specific instructions from the Procuraduría General de la República, consulates may ask for other requirements that are not listed.[11]
On that page the time is between 10 minutes and two hours, depending on urgency, earlier requests and staff, as long as no unresolved case shows up for the citizen.[12] If the citizen appears with pending cases in the PGR's criminal investigation system, the page says an investigation process is needed[13], which is the citizen's responsibility and can last more than five working days.[14]
The Dominican Foreign Ministry's table of consular fees lists "Certificaciones de buena conducta / no antecedentes penales" at US$25.00.[15] The embassy page says the amount to pay can vary with the cost of living of the city where the consulate is.[16] It says the amount is paid in US dollars but that, in the euro zone, it is charged in euros or in the currency of the country where the consular office is.[17] We found no euro amount on an official page: ask the consulate. It also says some consulates offer, without obligation, a legalisation service for this certificate before foreign institutions.[18]
Validity. We found no Dominican official page that states a validity period for this certificate. Spain's order says all documents must be in force when you apply, that for certificates the validity written on the document counts, and that a criminal record with no stated validity counts for six months from the day it was issued.[19][20][21]
Spain asks for the criminal record certificate of the country of origin, legalised and translated.[22] It says this document can be replaced by the Certificado Consular de Conducta, as set out by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, translated and legalised.[23] We found no official page saying whether the certificate a Dominican consulate issues is the document Spain calls by that name: ask the Spanish registry.
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