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PARDON INFORMATION AND INSTRUCTIONS

1. Submit the petition to the Office of the Pardon Attorney
All petitions, except petitions relating to military offenses (see paragraph 6 below), should be emailed to the Office of the Pardon Attorney at [email protected]. While email allows your transmission to be accepted and processed more quickly and allows us to correspond with you more easily, we will also accept mailed materials at the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Pardon Attorney, 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C. 20530. The completed pardon petition must be entirely legible; therefore, please type or print in ink. The form must be completed fully and accurately and notarized in order to be considered. You may attach to the petition additional pages and documents that amplify or clarify your answer to any question. Please do not staple, glue, bind or tape any portion of your petition or supplemental documents. We also will not accept pictures of documents, so they must be scanned on a flatbed scanner and submitted in PDF format if sent electronically.

2. Federal convictions only

3. Five-year waiting period required
Under the Department's rules governing petitions for executive clemency, 28 C.F.R. §§ 1.1 et seq., an applicant must satisfy a minimum waiting period of five years before he becomes eligible to apply for a presidential pardon of his federal conviction.

4. Reason for seeking pardon
5. Multiple federal convictions
(#6 is for the military)
7. Additional arrest record
8. Credit status and civil lawsuits
9. Character references
10. Effect of a pardon
11. Scope of investigation
12. Penalty for false statements

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