We handle your Korean police clearance certificate from request through delivery, including certified translation if your marriage registration requires it. Korean police clearance certificate issued and apostilled for international marriage registration abroad, without a trip back to Korea.
A number of countries require a criminal record certificate from each country where a marriage applicant has resided as part of their civil marriage registration process. Foreign nationals who previously lived in Korea — including those who met their spouse while working, studying, or traveling in Korea — are frequently asked to submit this document to their local civil registry office.
Marriage registration deadlines are often time-sensitive, and civil registry offices generally require an apostilled or consular-confirmed original document, not a self-printed copy. Without ongoing access to Korean identity verification systems, applicants abroad have no practical way to obtain a properly authenticated certificate on their own.
This service is for anyone who previously lived in Korea and now needs a Korean police clearance certificate for an international marriage registration abroad — including foreign nationals who met their spouse while working, studying, or traveling in Korea, and Korean nationals living overseas. You do not need a Korean bank account, Korean mobile number, or Digital Certificate (Joint Certificate) — a signed power of attorney and identity verification are enough for us to request the certificate on your behalf.
A Korean document on its own carries no automatic legal weight abroad — foreign spouses and local civil registry offices have no way to verify that it's genuine. An Apostille or Consular Confirmation solves this: it's an internationally recognized certification, issued by Korea's Ministry of Justice or Ministry of Foreign Affairs, that confirms the document is authentic and legally valid for official use in another country. Without it, a registry office may simply refuse to accept the document.
There are two ways to get a Korean police clearance certificate authenticated for marriage registration once you've left Korea.
Option 1 — Handle it yourself. You can request the certificate directly from the relevant Korean government office (which requires Korean identity verification, and in many cases an in-person visit or a Korean-resident representative), then bring it to Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs for an Apostille, or to your destination country's embassy or consulate in Korea for Consular Confirmation, plus arrange local-language translation and notarization separately. This is possible without a service, but it typically requires a trip back to Korea or a Korean resident acting on your behalf.
Option 2 — Use GetKoreanDocs. We request the certificate on your behalf, complete the Apostille or Consular Confirmation, arrange certified translation and notarization into your spouse's local language if needed, and ship the finished document to you internationally — without you needing to set foot in Korea.
Two ways to complete authentication, depending on your destination country.
Covers issuance of the certificate and Hague Apostille certification, for destination countries that are Hague Convention members.
Final pricing depends on your destination country's embassy or consulate in Korea, and is confirmed during your consultation.
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Tell us which document you need and where it's being submitted. No Korean phone number, Digital Certificate (Joint Certificate), or physical visit required on your end — you sign a power of attorney and provide identity verification, and we handle the rest directly with the issuing agency.
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We request the document on your behalf from the relevant Korean government office.
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Based on the destination country you provide, we apply the required certification — including notarization first, when that's a prerequisite.
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Your completed, authenticated document is shipped directly to your address, anywhere in the world.
Yes. We request the certificate from the relevant Korean government office and complete the Apostille or Consular Confirmation on your behalf, without you needing to visit Korea in person.
Many civil registry offices require this. We can arrange certified translation and notarization into your spouse's local language (e.g. Vietnamese, Spanish, Thai) as part of your order, for an additional fee.
A Korean document on its own carries no automatic legal weight abroad. An Apostille or Consular Confirmation is an internationally recognized certification that confirms the document is authentic — without it, a civil registry office may simply refuse to accept it.
Apostille and Consular Confirmation packages generally take 12 or more business days to process, not including international shipping or translation/notarization time. Exact timing is confirmed during your consultation.
Yes. We can ship your completed, authenticated (and translated, if needed) certificate directly to you or to your spouse's address abroad.
That's common — tell us your destination country during your free consultation, and we'll confirm the correct authentication path before anything is charged.
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Tell us what you need and where it's going. We'll confirm the process, requirements, and next steps before anything is charged.