Background Investigations

Foreign Nationals’ Background Checks

The OCC performs additional background checks on foreign nationals seeking entry into the national banking system. Those standard foreign national background checks are performed to obtain information similar to that compiled on U.S. citizens and are conducted in cooperation with the:

• Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

• Interpol.

• U.S. Department of State.

• U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service.

The OCC requests the submission of its Foreign Certification document to local officials in the person’s home country, so that they may attest to that person’s integrity and financial capacity.

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