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title: Submit a preclearance approval request
description: As a designated access person, submit a request to obtain the preclearance approval from the legal department before you can trade in the securities of your organization.
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product: Legal Stock Preclearance
classification: legal-stock-preclearance
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last_updated: "2026-05-19"
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# Submit a preclearance approval request

As a designated access person, submit a request to obtain the preclearance approval from the legal department before you can trade in the securities of your organization.

## Before you begin

Role required: sn\_lg\_ops.legal\_user

## About this task

You can submit a preclearance request during an open trading window period only if you are in the Access Persons list.

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to **All** > **Employee Center**.

    **Note:** If you're using Legal Service Portal, you can submit a legal request by navigating to the Legal Service Portal and selecting a request from the **Service Catalog**.

2.  Navigate to **Help center** > **Legal services**.

3.  Search for the stock preclearance request item.

4.  Select **Stock Preclearance**.

5.  On the form, fill in the fields.

<table id="table_ljw_zb2_4jb"><thead><tr><th>

Field

</th><th>

Description

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

Transaction type

</td><td>

Type of securities transaction for which you need a preclearance approval.-   Purchase
-   Sell
-   Transfer
-   Gift


</td></tr><tr><td>

Number of securities

</td><td>

Number of shares to trade.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Nature of securities

</td><td>

Type of shares for which you need a preclearance approval.-   Open Market
-   ESPP \(Employee Stock Purchase Plan\)
-   ESOP \(Employee Stock Option Plan\)
-   RSU \(Restricted Stock Unit\)


</td></tr><tr><td>

Proposed transaction date

</td><td>

Date on which you want to perform the securities transaction. The date must be within the current trading window.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Short description

</td><td>

Description for the preclearance approval.

</td></tr><tr><td>

I agree

</td><td>

Option to confirm your consent to trade in securities in accordance with your organization's insider trading policies.

</td></tr></tbody>
</table>6.  Click **Submit**.


## Result

-   A preclearance approval request is created and assigned to the legal stock approvers group. If configured by the administrator, you get the notification about the progress of your request.

    **Note:**

    The approval details appear under the **Approvals** tab on the Standard Ticket page.

-   When submitting the stock preclearance request as a Sec-16 officer, the **Subcategory** in the request is automatically set as Sec-16 Officer.
-   The Standard Ticket page displays that has the following tabs to perform different tasks:
    -   Activity: Track the activity history of the request and post messages for the fulfiller working on the request.
    -   Attachments or Documents: Upload and manage the documents in the legal request.

        **Note:** If the external storage option is enabled, the **Documents** tab is displayed. Otherwise, the **Attachments** tab is displayed.

    -   Request Details: Review request details.

**Parent Topic:**[Submitting Legal Stock Preclearance requests](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/legal-stock-preclearance/submit-legal-stock-reqs.md)