How to Prepare Your Documents for MOFA Attestation.docx

1. How to Prepare Your Documents for MOFA Attestation Whenever an application for a visa is made or when traveling to another country, it is mandatory to produce an MOFA Attestation. This authenticates your documents and ensures that they are accepted in the foreign nation. To ensure that your documents are well-prepared for attestation, the following steps should be followed: However, common documents include: Birth Certificate: This is a certificate of birth and is a very important document that candidates present being the most useful when it comes to visas. Marriage Certificate: This serves as a proof of your marital status and maybe needed when applying for visas that will enable you join your family. Degree Certificate: It may be required where you are serving a notice period in a new place or if you are in a country searching for a new job or keeping on with your education. Experience Letter: This letter shall assist the candidate in putting down the practical experiences and might be useful where the human resources needed meet certain visa classification. ● Ensure the Document is Original:

2. Original documents are required to go through the process of MOFA Attestation. Make it a point that the documents are clean and all the writings are visible. ● Get the Document Attested by Relevant Authorities in the Home Country: The document will be recognized once it has been legalized by the authorized bodies in the country of origin. This may include: Notarization: It is necessary to place the seal of a public notary to the said document. Attestation by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA): It has to be issued and certified by the MEA or any other comparable body of the country, which issued the document. UAE Embassy Attestation: In view of this, after the MEA attestation, it should be followed by UAE Embassy attestation from the issuing country. ● Translate the Document (if Necessary): This is be especially relevant if the document is in a language other than English or Arabic because for him or her to produce a copy of the translated document, he or she has to engage the services of a certified translator. It was mandated that the translated document should be notarized and followed by MOFA Attestation. ● Ensure You Have Supporting Documents: In addition, when attesting any document for any educational institute, the other documents required that are, academic or non-academic should be produced in copy other form of ID or passport or visa or any other form of identification required during the MOFA Attestation process. ● Pay Attestation Fees:

3. Understand that you may be charged various attestation fees that include MOFA attestation fees especially when in UAE. ● Submit to UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA): Once all attestations from your home country are done, take the document to MOFA in the UAE for the final legalization. To do this one can go to a MOFA office or to other centres that are legally entitled to conduct the MOFA Attestation. ● Track the Progress Now that you have forwarded the documents to MOFA for attestation it is crucial to monitor the progress of the MOFA Attestation process. Also, the status of the documents should be checked and probably the MOFA office should be contacted in the event that there is a lag or there is an issue. Applying and incorporating MOFA Attestation services for your important documents can be really a challenging and lengthy procedure. If you follow these guidelines provided in this document, your documents will be well organized, comprehensible and authenticated. Please, always remember that documentation is the key for a successful MOFA Attestation.