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Between the advice memo and your appointment order

Once Kerala PSC issues your advice memo, the process moves to the appointing department, and the Commission’s role is finished. Its General Conditions require you to produce a medical certificate in the prescribed form, your original documents, and a proforma enabling verification of character and antecedents, all before you are admitted to duty. It also states, flatly, that no extension of time will be allowed for producing any document.

Steps

  1. The handover

    The advice memo is the Commission’s instruction to the appointing authority. What it is and how it works sits in the advice memo guide; this page picks up immediately after.

  2. What you must have ready

    The General Conditions require selected candidates to produce, before being admitted to duty, the necessary medical certificate in the prescribed form, the documents in original proving age, qualifications and experience, and a proforma furnishing details enabling verification of character and antecedents.

  3. The department issues the order

    The appointing authority issues the appointment or joining order and arranges document verification. This is departmental work, not Commission work.

  4. The one hard deadline

    The General Conditions state that no extension of time will be allowed for the production of any documents. That is a rule on your side of the handover, and it does not bend.

  5. How long the department takes is not published

    We could find no rule fixing how many days an appointing authority has to convert an advice into an appointment order. If such a rule exists it belongs to departmental procedure, not to anything Kerala PSC publishes. We will not invent a timeline.

  6. This is not the same as NJD

    Non-joining duty covers a candidate who never joins after being advised. This page covers a normal joining. Both are explained in the advice memo and NJD guide.

Frequently asked questions

How long does the department have to issue my appointment order?#

No deadline is published in the Commission’s General Conditions, and we found none elsewhere. It is departmental procedure. Contact the appointing department’s establishment section rather than the Commission.

Can I get more time to produce a missing document?#

No. The General Conditions state that no extension of time will be allowed for the production of any documents.

What do I need before I am admitted to duty?#

A medical certificate in the prescribed form, originals proving age, qualifications and experience, and the proforma enabling verification of character and antecedents.

Official sources

Steps last verified against official Kerala PSC sources on 25 August 2026.

Where the Commission has not published a rule, this guide says so rather than guessing. Anything marked “not officially published” is exactly that.

This is an independent guide for aspirants, written from the Commission’s own published instructions. Portal screens and rules change — always confirm on keralapsc.gov.in and in your own Thulasi profile before acting. PSC Mastery is not affiliated with the Kerala Public Service Commission.