Estimate delivery times before you place orders.
Pick the searches in your package, the jurisdiction, and whether you need rush handling. We'll return a realistic range based on SafestHires operational averages — not marketing numbers.
1. Select the checks in your package
2. Jurisdiction & conditions
What can push a report past the estimate
Federal and state court holidays, weather closures, and unplanned clerk-office shutdowns pause any county or statewide search touching that jurisdiction until the court reopens.
Roughly one in eight U.S. counties still requires a clerk or court runner to pull records by hand. When those queues back up — Cook County, Los Angeles, the NYC boroughs — expect an extra 1–3 business days.
A hit on a common name (Smith, Garcia, Nguyen, Johnson) triggers additional identifier matching — DOB, address history, middle name, and often a supplemental court file review — before we report anything.
When a database hit doesn't match cleanly, our researchers verify the record at the source court to confirm identity, disposition, and current status. It's the step that keeps false positives off the report — and it adds real time.
Verifications only move as fast as the responding HR or registrar's office. Prior employers and schools that route through third-party verification services are usually same-day; small businesses and schools not using third-party verification services can take a week.
Missing consent signatures, incomplete identifiers, or a candidate who doesn't finish the mobile intake are the single biggest cause of preventable delay. SafestHires auto-nudges applicants who stall.
Estimates assume valid candidate identifiers, a completed authorization, and standard business hours in the target jurisdictions. Actual times can vary by court, employer response speed, and any adverse-action review your program requires.