An Australian Skilled-Independent Immigrant has to submit a penal clearance certificate for every country that they have stayed for a minimum of 12 months in total. 99% of my time, I am in the Philippines, so I only have to submit an NBI clearance.
Firstly, I am annoyed by long queues. And almost everybody's rule of thumb for queuing in an NBI office or renewal branch is to be the earliest possible. Robinson's Cybergate in Cebu had an NBI renewal branch, and the never-the-early-bird that I am, I arrived half past 10am and they can only accommodate 200. A security guard, trying to be as discrete as he can, offered me to come back around 4pm when all renewals are