Many believe that after seven years all felonies simply fall off your record. Unfortunately this is not true. There is a permanent record of all your convictions no matter when they occurred. Given that felonies will show up on your record for seven years when a background check is run, the only one way to keep criminal convictions from showing up is to have your records expunged or sealed at the time of the background check. These records would not appear on a background check after seven years. After release from serving prison time, it can take 7-10 years* to get a felony expunged from your record. That’s upwards of 2.5 presidential elections missed before you can vote again. In NY, you can’t expunge records at all. You can seal only two criminal convictions, and only one of them can be a felony under and under certain conditions. Not all criminal convictions are eligible for sealing. Expunging felonies from your record can cost between $1,000 and $2,500 between legal fees and the expungement fee itself. *Again, this varies state to state. You can support me via Venmo/CashApp: MohawkGreene Or on Patreon (link in bio) – patreon.com/therebeleducationist