Answer the official questions truthfully according to their actual scope. A private report’s silence is not a reason to omit information the process requests.
Reconcile the source records and the real history
If an event’s treatment is unclear, obtain an individual assessment and use the relevant records. This page does not decide the event’s immigration consequence or claim that every past issue leads to the same result. An event resolved, sealed, or removed from a record under the law of one country is not automatically outside the scope of a question asked under a different country's rules, so read the actual wording of the question rather than assuming a domestic outcome controls the answer.
A private report typically searches a narrower set of registers than an official government check would reach, and its silence reflects the registers it searched, not a finding that nothing exists elsewhere. Identify which registers, courts, or agencies could hold a record of the event before concluding that none do, and request a search from each rather than relying on one commercial product. Where the underlying facts are genuinely unclear, obtaining records directly from the office that would hold them settles the question more reliably than inferring an answer from a summary report built for another purpose.
Retain the outcome of each search that is actually conducted, whether it confirms a record or confirms that none exists, since a completed inquiry belongs in the file regardless of what it finds.