Im a forty nine year old man. I work in an assisted living facility in nc and chose to do so to change my career. One of the requirements for nursing was to get a Cna license. I have been here for a year. I have applied for employment at a nc veterans home. I was hired and went through five days of orientation. I received a call the day before I was to start and told something came up on my background check. It was a twenty year old domestic battery charge that blew me away when I saw it. I had no idea it was there as two background checks were done for my work now and from the college I attend. This must have been a national check and I never knew it was there. I was shocked. I went online to see what the charge was and figured it was from a girl I was engaged to 20years ago. I have to go to the veterans home and explain what I found. I'm a decent man who raised four children after marriage and owned two homes and a successful business. Are y'all telling me I can't do anything about this after working with the elderly for over a year now. I'm so disappointed this was in existence and now fear I will not be hired. Is there anything I can do please after so long. Thank you

Yes, that is a bummer. I can only suggest what you thought of, of going to the VA home and explaining and see if they go for it. I mean, there is no sense in having it expunged now that they have seen it.

I have to have a background check done every year whether I need it or not; of course it is always the same, but if something came up like that, I would not know where to turn, knowing that it must be a mistake, and I would lose my job.

If that is their policy and as a veteran I see nothing wrong with that policy, they are correct in applying their policy. Just because it was missed during a previous check has nothing to do with the present situation. Care of the disabled or elderly can be very trying and maybe just as trying as the time you maybe lost it (you haven't given us any detail about the incident that created a record) with the fiancé.

If that is their policy and as a veteran I see nothing wrong with that policy, they are correct in applying their policy. Just because it was missed during a previous check has nothing to do with the present situation. Care of the disabled or elderly can be very trying and maybe just as trying as the time you maybe lost it (you haven't given us any detail about the incident that created a record) with the fiance.
The issue is that people working with the elderly, that have a violent record may reoffend, lose their patience, and do damage to the vulnerable.

My sympathy is with the OP, of course, if there is no basis but the fact remains it is on a permanent record.