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Background Checks & Biometrics · remote FD-258 service · no travel

FBI Background Check from Abroad — FD-258 Card & Apostille

We send you the FD-258 card with a step-by-step guide, you take your fingerprints in your city and send the card back to us in Miami. We review it, file it with the FBI and request the U.S. Department of State apostille, without you traveling to the United States. The price and the estimated date, in writing before you pay.

We are not the FBI or part of the U.S. Government. We are not a law firm.

How the card reaches you and how it comes back

Kit by courierthe printed FD-258 card and the guide, to your address; courier quoted by destination

Or by emailthe card to print at actual size, with the guide

Back to Miamithe original card, by tracked courier

From 155 USD · timelines start when the card reaches Miami.

What it is

Your federal criminal record, without setting foot in the United States.

The FBI Identity History Summary —known as the FBI background check— is the federal criminal history record of the United States. The FBI issues it from your fingerprints.

When you cannot come to our Miami or Bogotá offices, the route is the FD-258 card by mail. For a foreign authority to accept the report, it must carry the Hague Convention apostille, which for federal documents is issued only by the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C.; if the destination country is not a party to the Convention, consular legalization applies.

Anatomy of a fingerprint: core, delta, ridges readable edge to edge, and a smudge or double print that fails the review; FD-258 card
What we check in every print when the card reaches Miami: core, delta and readable ridges

Where to get fingerprinted: two options, the same card

Self-taken

With our guide and black ink

You, or someone you trust, follow the step-by-step guide with black ink: how to ink, how to roll each finger and what to check before you send the card.

With a professional

Police station or fingerprinting service

At a police station or a fingerprinting service in your city that works with the FD-258 card. In many countries the judicial police or forensic institutes offer it.

What it is used for: visas and residence permits in another country · Colombian visas (Resolución 5477) · naturalization · work or study abroad · international adoptions · recognition of degrees and licenses · due diligence and compliance.

Pricing · remote service · USD · checked October 10, 2026

Any profile, three levels.

Every package includes the FD-258 card with the guide, the review of the card when it reaches Miami, filing with the FBI and digital delivery; those with apostille also include its processing at the Department of State. Under each price, the timeline.

Route

FBI report only

With regular apostille

With express apostille

Remote service

Any profile · FD-258 card

FBI report only155 USDPay →12–15 business days

With regular apostille390 USDPay →8–10 weeks

With express apostille435 USDPay →6–7 weeks

Timelines counted from when the card reaches our Miami office. Courier for the kit to your address is not included: it is quoted by destination. Sending the card to Miami is at your expense. Standalone apostille for FBI reports already issued: 235 USD regular · 280 USD express (see the service). If the FBI rejects the prints, the resubmission costs 50% of the no-apostille package or 78 USD with apostille, and shipping the new card is at your expense. International courier for the original is quoted separately. Pay by card, wire transfer or Zelle; an invoice with every payment.

Process map

How it works, in five steps.

1

Request

On WhatsApp, tell us where you are and which authority the document is for. We confirm the package, the price and the estimated date, in writing.

2

The card, to your city

We send you the FD-258 kit by courier or, depending on your case, the card by email to print at actual size. Always with the step-by-step guide.

3

Your fingerprints

Self-taken, with the guide and black ink, or at a police station or fingerprinting service in your city.

4

Shipping to Miami

You send us the original card by tracked courier (DHL, FedEx or UPS). Timelines start when it arrives.

5

FBI, apostille and delivery

We review the card, file it with the FBI and, if you ordered it, request the apostille from the Department of State. We deliver the apostilled PDF.

How we work

You do three things. We do the rest.

You

Three steps

You message us on WhatsApp and tell us where you are and which authority the document is for.

You take your prints with the guide, or at a police station, and send the card to Miami by courier.

You receive the apostilled PDF and, if you asked for it, the original at your address.

Us

Everything else

We tell you the package you need, with the price and the estimated date before you pay.

We send you the FD-258 card and the guide: as a kit by courier or by email, depending on your case.

We review the card when it arrives: if a print won’t read, we tell you before filing it.

We file with the FBI —through an FBI-approved channeler when your case allows it— and track the request.

We request the apostille from the Department of State and deliver the result digitally and, if you ask, by courier.

The expert who reviews your case
Claudio Enrique Pita, Partner and Senior Consultant at Compliance Officers

Claudio Enrique Pita

Partner and Senior Consultant · Compliance Officers

He reviews every card when it reaches Miami, before it is filed with the FBI, and every file before it goes to the Department of State: the fingerprint that won’t read, the name that doesn’t match the passport or the apostille the destination doesn’t require are caught here, not in Washington.

Accreditation
Accredited Security Consultant

Colombia’s Superintendencia de Vigilancia y Seguridad Privada · Resolution 20224440036037

Specialty
Forensic fingerprint examiner

More than 27 years in personal, asset and infrastructure security

The firm
Riveros International Business Corp

In the U.S. market since 2009 · Miami (175 SW 7th St, Suite 1905) and Bogotá

Shipping to Miami

The card comes back to our Brickell office

175 SW 7th St, Suite 1905 · Brickell

Miami, FL 33130, United States

By courier with international tracking: DHL, FedEx or UPS. Shipping is at your expense.

Timelines start when the card reaches our office.

Before you seal the envelope

Five points you can check yourself

Pressure: ridges neither flattened nor cut off.

Rolling: one single pass per finger, from nail edge to nail edge.

Ridge detail: readable from edge to edge.

Personal details: every box matches your passport.

Signature and date: on the card before you send it.

When the card arrives, we review it again: if a print won’t read, we tell you before filing it. Step by step, box by box: the FD-258 card explained.

Frequently asked questions

What people ask us before they start.

Short answers. If your case is specific, write to us: we reply in writing within one business day.

We send you the FD-258 card with a step-by-step guide: as a kit by courier or, depending on your case, by email to print at actual size. You take your fingerprints in your city and send the original card back to us in Miami by courier. We review it, file it with the FBI and, if you order it, request the apostille from the Department of State. Courier for the kit is not included in the price: it is quoted by destination.

For anyone who needs the FBI report and cannot come to our Miami or Bogotá offices: professionals, students and families who need it for a visa, a residence permit, naturalization, work or study abroad or an international adoption, and companies that need it for due diligence or compliance. It works for any profile: U.S. citizens, permanent residents and non-citizens.

You have two options: self-taken —by you, or someone you trust— with our step-by-step guide and black ink, or at a police station or fingerprinting service in your city that works with the FD-258 card. In many countries the judicial police or forensic institutes offer it.

Yes, at actual size and without scaling: the FBI accepts fingerprint cards printed on standard white paper, although a police station or fingerprinting service may prefer card stock. If your case calls for it, we send you the kit by courier with the card already printed to specification.

From when the card reaches our Miami office: FBI report only, 12–15 business days; with express apostille, 6–7 weeks; with regular apostille, 8–10 weeks. Add the time it takes to ship the card to Miami, which depends on the country and the courier; we recommend one with international tracking, such as DHL, FedEx or UPS.

No. You take your fingerprints in your city and we handle the FBI and the apostille from Miami. You receive the apostilled document without leaving your country.

No. The apostille for federal FBI documents is issued only by the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. We handle it for you from Miami.

The request has to be filed again with a new card. The resubmission costs 50% of the no-apostille package, or 78 USD with apostille, and shipping the new card is at your expense. That is why we review every card before filing it.

Standard delivery is digital, as an apostilled PDF. Sending the original by international courier is quoted separately depending on the destination country.

Other ways to do this

If you can come to an office, we handle that too.

All offices

FBI background check with apostille

Miami, Bogotá and the remote route, with the full price table.

Miami

FBI background check in Miami

LiveScan or FD-258 in person at our Brickell office, by appointment.

Colombia

FBI background check in Colombia

LiveScan or FD-258 card at our Bogotá office, by appointment.

Standalone apostille

Apostille for an FBI report you already have

Regular or express, in Washington, D.C., for the report you already have.

Next step

Start from your city.

No obligation. Message us on WhatsApp Monday to Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Miami time: we reply in writing within one business day with the package, the price and the estimated date.

Compliance Officers · Riveros International Business Corp · +1 305 647 3000 · info@complianceofficers.org · We are not the FBI or part of the U.S. Government.