Employee and educational certificate attestation
Whether for employment, further studies, or visa purposes, document attestation is a prerequisite for all those venturing out to the Gulf region. It is worth mentioning that the attestation process does not only affirm the credibility of your certificates but also ensures their acceptance in various GCC countries such as UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, and Kuwait.
We at Gulf Integrity offer thorough services in Gulf employee and educational certificate attestation for both individuals and organizations so that they can fulfill official requirements without the hassle of dealing with multiple authorities.
Reasons To Choose GULF INTEGRITY
Who Needs These Services?
Certificate Attestation is required by many people and institutions, such as:
Recruiting students to Gulf Educational Institutions in the region
Job Placements in the Gulf
Employing foreign workers and taking care of their documentation
HR and immigration services for international employees of a local company
Foreign nationals applying for dependent’s long term residence permits or educational credential recognition certificates
What Is Certificate Attestation?
Certificate attestation is describing the process of authenticating a document by having it verified through endorsements from relevant bodies. These could be educational institutions, ministries, embassies, or consulates. It guarantees that a document is not a fake and can be executed in another country.
There are various kinds of attestations depending on the type of certificate:
- Educational Certificates: Degrees, diplomas, mark sheets, and transcripts
- Employment Certificates: Experience letters, job offers, and salary slips
- Personal Certificates: Birth, marriage, and medical certificates, or even police clearance certificates, if required for various procedures
Reasons Why Attestation is Needed
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member countries impose strict guidelines when it comes to recruitment for foreign professionals and even admission for international students. Reasons for needing attestation include:
- Professional documents for work application and their associated permits.
- Educational documents for a student visa and admissions into a university.
- Licensing documents for professional fields such as medicine, engineering, teaching, and law.
- Documents relating to a residence visa for the employee and any dependents.
- Documents for employment with government and semi-government positions.
Without proper attestation, your application may face delays, rejections leading to additional expenses and lost opportunities.
Issues Encountered with Certificate Verification
The challenges regarding certificate attestation processes often take too long to get resolved due to lack of professional guidance. Such challenges include:
- Documents that are not completed or do not have the relevant seals from the authorities who issued them.
- Holds on notarization or delays in processing by the embassy.
- Inadequate knowledge of the attestation processes for different countries and certificate types.
- Not knowing a language, especially when it comes to translation to Arabic or English.
- Document rejections due to mistakes or errors in document formatting done during application submission.
- Problems dealing with MOFA, embassies, educational boards, and other officials that work with multiple agencies.
Our Certificate Attestation Services
Gulf Integrity offers an efficient attestation service that manages all the steps in the process from end to end:
- Document collection, preparation and checking: We advise you on the documents to be provided and confirm they are ready for attestation.
- Translator Services: We have certified translators to attest documents in languages other than Arabic.
- Attestation Management Services
We manage attestations with the following local and international offices:
- Notary Public
- Ministry of Education.
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA)
- Embassy or Consulate of the destination country
- User follow up and status updates: We manage the status of the application up to that point and notify users about each step done.
- Delivery process: Once the documents have been prepared, they are sent to the users securely in the preferred submission form.