Obtain Your FBI Criminal Record in Miami and South Florida

It is the federal record the FBI keeps about you, often called an FBI criminal record or FBI background check. It lists arrests and dispositions reported to the FBI by law enforcement agencies, or states that there is no record. Only you can request your own summary, and foreign governments often ask for it with an apostille.

No. The FBI Identity History Summary is a national record maintained by the FBI, while a Florida check through FDLE covers state records. Foreign governments and some federal processes ask specifically for the FBI summary, and often for an apostille on it. Our Level 2 background check page explains the Florida screening employers use.

Mostly residents applying for residency, citizenship, a work permit or a long-term visa in another country, families in an international adoption, and people going through a consulate process. It is also requested by anyone who wants to review their own federal record before a job, license or legal process, working with their own attorney where one is involved.

The request is made in your name and the result is sent to you, since only the individual can request their own summary. We take the fingerprints, prepare the forms and explain each submission step, and you authorize the request and its payment.

A valid government-issued photo ID, your personal details (full legal name, date and place of birth, citizenship), the reason you need the record and, if you have them, the instructions from the country, consulate or agency that asked for it. Those instructions determine whether the record must be apostilled.

On an FD-258 fingerprint card or, when the FBI accepts it for your case, through an electronic submission. We roll all ten fingers and re-roll any print that could be rejected, because a rejected card delays the whole request. See our fingerprint card service for the details of the card itself.

The FBI and the apostille office set their own fees, which are paid directly to them, and their processing times change with demand and with the route used, so we do not quote them. What we control is preparing the request correctly the first time; we explain the whole path in the first conversation. Contact us

The FBI has a process to challenge inaccurate information, and it usually involves the agency that originally reported it. We help you read the summary, identify what to dispute and prepare the documents; if the matter has legal or immigration implications, we recommend speaking with an attorney, because we do not give legal advice.