The Government of UAE requires many people to get their documents attested for a variety of reasons. Usually, people need to do it for employment, education, and migration in a foreign country to authenticate their documents to use abroad. Document attestation is the process where a document gets validated and reviewed before getting a visa, work permit, or admission to a foreign country. An attested document ensures that your documents are genuine for legal and official purposes in another country.
There are different types of documents that need to go through the attestation process for different kinds of legal and official purposes. These documents are classified as education documents, non-educational documents, and commercial documents. The process of attestation of these documents is a bit different due to the involvement of different types of authorizations and review processes to examine their authenticity. For example, an educational document needs HRD attestation while there is no need for HRD attestation for a non-educational document.
Educational documents
Educational documents are the academic certificates ussies by colleges and universities after the completion of professional courses. SSC, HSC, diploma degree, engineering degree, Ph.D. degree, UG degree, and so on are considered educations documents and need to be attested for student visa applications for higher education in a foreign country.
Attestation process of educational documents
Step 1: Educational documents are pre-authenticated from respective state HRD
Step 2: Attestation of documents from the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA)
Step 3: Embassy attestation