Documentation · Policies
Corrections and de-listing
We do not create, change or remove sanctions, PEP or debarment listings. We reproduce what official publishers release. If you are listed, the decision to remove you rests with the authority that listed you; if our copy is wrong, we correct it.
Seeking removal from a list
Every record names the register it comes from. Find the authority that made the listing below and apply to it. The links go to each authority’s own page; their procedures and forms are theirs, and change from time to time.
| Jurisdiction | Authority | Contact point |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | Global Affairs Canada (Special Economic Measures Act; Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act) | Listed persons, mistaken identity and delisting; delisting application forms |
| Canada | Public Safety Canada (entities listed under the Criminal Code) | Listed terrorist entities; application to the Minister under section 83.05 of the Criminal Code |
| United Nations | Security Council sanctions committees (Office of the Ombudsperson for ISIL and Al-Qaida listings; Focal Point for other regimes) | Delisting |
| United States | Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) | Filing a petition for removal from an OFAC list |
| United States | General Services Administration, System for Award Management (SAM.gov) exclusions; the excluding agency decides | SAM.gov contact; Federal Service Desk |
| United Kingdom | Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office | Making a sanctions challenge |
| European Union | Council of the European Union, via the European External Action Service | European Union sanctions |
| Australia | Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade | Delistings and travel ban exemptions |
| International | INTERPOL, Commission for the Control of INTERPOL’s Files | Commission for the Control of INTERPOL’s Files |
For other registers, the publisher and its website are named on the register’s page under All data sources. The register is also named on each record page. If you write to us about a record, include its record ID.
After an authority removes a listing
Each register is collected separately, on its own schedule. When an authority removes a listing, the record leaves our active data at the next successful load of that register. The refresh interval of each register is shown on its source page, and current delays are on Freshness.
Removal from one list does not remove you from others. Many national lists copy United Nations or other designations and remove them on their own timetable; until each publisher removes its listing, our copy of that listing stays.
What happens to the old record
We keep a removed listing as a historical record with the date it was removed, because a past designation remains part of the public record. Removed listings are not returned by search or screening and are not in the bulk files. Our privacy notice explains this retention and how to ask for a record to be annotated.
Known issues with authority data
Errors in our data
If our record differs from the publisher’s, or we have linked records of different people, email [email protected] with the record ID, the register and, if you can, a link to the publisher’s current record. Errors we introduced, such as a transcription or grouping error, are ours to correct. Questions about whether a listing should exist go to the publisher, as above. Response times are set out in our attribution notice and privacy notice.
Last updated 2026-10-04