It is fairly easy to get a criminal background check, or your own criminal history record, simply by requesting it from the Federal Bureau of Investigations. You are able to request this information directly from the FBI, or through requests made through companies that are set up to do just that for you.
You may want to check into your background this way as a preclusion to a potential employer doing a criminal record check on you, assuring yourself that you aren't on file anywhere, to dispute the information on record, or just to satisfy your curiosity. Sometimes people need to obtain their criminal background check because they are looking into adopting a child, either within the United States or abroad, in another country, to bring back to America. Also, these records may be required when you are looking to travel abroad, or even obtain work or a residence in a foreign country. They may ask you to provide a formal verification of your background and criminal record before you are able to purchase property there, or begin employment outside of the United States.
A criminal background check is usually centered around following your fingerprint records wherever they have been submitted. This could be from an arrest, or from records derived from a time you served in the military, at a federal job, or from becoming a naturalized citizen. In the case of an arrest, however, the details of the arrest are thorough; they may include the details of the arrest itself, naming the office or bureau that put forward your fingerprints to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, disposition of the arrest, and any other details related to your fingerprints.
You can apply to the FBI directly to obtain your record, or you can use a company that is known as an FBI-approved channeler, whom you pay to do the paperwork necessary to obtain your criminal background check for you through the correct channels. For a fee, they will do the necessary submission for the check through the FBI and electronically send you the results. This will save you the work of having to find which department to go through or what paperwork is involved, as they are paid to do all that for you.
Of course, you may want to prove you have no criminal record, and no record ever existed. You can still make the same request to the FBI and obtain an assurance of "no record" if indeed, no record is found. Obtaining your own rap sheet (or lack thereof) is actually quite easy when you know where to look!
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