My love is Cape Town and my pain the critical skills permit

Police clearance takes about a month.

Is it.  I've sent the Form to the company and they have sent it to the police via courier and will collect it via courier. on the webpage they say up to two weeks...
thought it would be a big quicker...

Hey

just a short question for the PCC.

As I now know it might take long to get the PPC. The office in Pretoria has a back log and the turn around time might take 6-8 weeks 

Question 1:

My company and also myself made an inquiry at SAPS to located the application. I dont know if it make sence to chase the SAPS.What do you think?

Question 2:

To apply for the Permit I need PCC. Thats clear. PCC might be the only documents I have to wait in the end because every document and certificate in on the way. It might take me 2-3 Weeks to complete my application and apply for the permit in Berlin. But the only document that is missing then is the PCC ...

Is it possible to give the embassy a receipt of my application if I don't have the PCC until then? Or will they refuse my application then immediately?

I really need to go back to Cape Town and start to work. Afraid to lose my job ...

If any of you have experience with that, please advise me.
Really appreciate the share of you experience..

Thanks so much!

I had applied for a police clearance certificate in June last year and it was sent in October only. The reason was the strike of postal services (in which it got lost). I finally had picked up a reissued certificate by a courier service (DHL). Once I received it I realized that it was faulty (my place of birth was given incorrectly). It took me several emails and almost another half a year until I received the correct version. In hindsight I was told by the SA Consulate General in Munich that they would have accepted the wrong one as well (together with a printout of the emails about the problem).