The criminal record is the data that appears in the Central Registry of Convicts (the Ministry of Justice) when a person is convicted of committing a crime. These do not last forever, once the sentence has been fully served, you can completely cancel a criminal record. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Depending on the seriousness of the crime committed, the time that must elapse since the criminal responsibility has been extinguished in order to cancel the criminal record can range from 6 months for minor offenses to 10 years for very serious penalties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The deadlines to cancel a criminal record are established in article 136 of the Penal Code<\/strong><\/a>. Currently, they are the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this article<\/strong><\/a>, we explain how to request the Criminal Record certificate to find out whether or not you have been convicted a sentence for a crime committed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The computation of these periods shall be interrupted by the perpetration of new offenses during their course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you have a Cl@ve PIN<\/strong><\/a> or a Digital Certificate<\/strong><\/a>, you can enter the Electronic Headquarters of the Ministry of Justice<\/strong><\/a> to apply for the cancelation of your criminal record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You must attach the Application Form of the Criminal Record Cancelation<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The duly completed application along with the documentation that accompanies it can be submitted at: <\/p>\n\n\n\n The application along with the certified copy of the required documentation can also be sent by certified mail to the following address:<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Registro Central de Penados (Cancelaciones), C\/ San Bernardo n\u00ba 21, planta baja, 28015 \u2013 MADRID”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once the application to cancel a criminal record has been completed, filling in the corresponding sections and attaching the required documentation, the maximum resolution period is three months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If this period elapses and no response is obtained, the intended cancelation can be understood as estimated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, this period shall be suspended when it is necessary to seek from the judicial body the date of extinction of criminal responsibility (art. 22.1 of Law 39\/2015, of October 1, of the Common Administrative Procedure of Public Administrations).<\/p>\n\n\n\n The notification of the resolution will be made at the address registered for such purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We want to listen to you and know what your questions are about the procedures you have to carry out. Count on the advice of our experts<\/strong> to clarify all your doubts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In Entre Tr\u00e1mites<\/strong><\/a> we invite you to know about all our consultation services<\/strong>. Fill in our contact form<\/strong><\/a> and we will call you to help you as soon as possible<\/strong>, schedule your online consultation, or simply text our WhatsApp<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Canceling your criminal record is possible. In this article, we tell you everything you need to know and the step-by-step procedure of how to do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":20556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entretramites.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entretramites.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entretramites.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entretramites.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entretramites.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11902"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/entretramites.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21200,"href":"https:\/\/entretramites.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11902\/revisions\/21200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entretramites.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entretramites.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entretramites.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entretramites.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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