Licensing

FINRA Fingerprints

You can obtain your fingerprints for your FINRA investment license application.

 

FINRA or "Financial Industry Regulatory Authority" is a corporation that acts as a self-governing body for financial investors working in the United States. A FINRA background check is a check conducted by the corporation to ensure the accuracy of the applicants' U4 form. An investment banker, when applying for a position, must complete a U4 form that contains personal information. FINRA requires this information to be accurate and does so by requiring the applicant to submit to a specific FINRA background check.

 

FBI Apostille 

You can get your apostilled report from the FBI, and you can use this additional authorization to visit any country you need.

 

 Apostille reports can be made for both citizens and non-citizens.

What does it mean to apostill an FBI background check?

An Apostille is a French word that means certification. People who travel abroad to live, work or attend school may at some point be asked to apostille or authenticate their documents. An FBI apostille background check is a regular FBI background check with additional certification that some countries require when traveling abroad.

 

Countries that are part of the "Hague Convention" require travelers to have their FBI report apostilled before they can enter the country. You can find a list of those countries here.

Below is a list of all the current countries that are part of the Hague Convention and require documents to be apostilled:

 

Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Chile, Colombia, Ivory Coast, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Fiji, Eswatini, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Guyana, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lesotho, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Mali, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Paraguay,

Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Rwanda, San Marino, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea South, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Togo, Turkey, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Venezuela and Zambia.

 

Please note that this list may change as new countries join the Hague Convention.