Easy to attest, easy to fly
The craze of going abroad nowadays has escalated like anything. Whatever it is, be it jobs or studies, no one is hesitating to go overseas today in search of better education and employment opportunities. Earlier, the formalities involved in travelling abroad used to be too much complicated and cumbersome for the common people. But, this is not the scenario today. With the simplification of the embassy attestation process, more and more people are flocking towards these services for swift completion of the processes. These services will ensure smooth travel and immigration of the individual overseas.
Everything you need to know about embassy attestation: Attestation or rather embassy attestation is the process of validating and authentication of all the necessary and supporting documents related to the process of an individual’s travel abroad. Broadly, these include Human Resource Development Department (HRD) and Ministry of External Affairs (MEA attestation), which are done mostly in Delhi. However, state level attestations in Ahmedabad, Pune, Bangalore, Mumbai, Chennai and Hyderabad are also available. However, in such cases, the documents have to be further authenticated by the respective state’s Notary before submission to the home ministry departments. The process of attestation is again different for different countries. And there are separate consulates and embassies exclusively to take care of that particular country’s attestation process. So, there are, Nigeria embassy, Vietnam embassy, Egypt embassy, Taiwan embassy and other embassies to cater to that particular country’s attestation process. All you have to do is just step into the respective embassy and follow the formalities. Your search ends here!
Procedure, documents and other essential information: Before you enter into the correct embassy, you should be ready with all the documents that are required for attestation purposes. In this way, your time will be saved, as the process will be completed more quickly. We can help you out here by giving you the list of documents that you must carry. Broadly, these have been categorized into the following heads:
- Educational Certificates: These include each and every education related certificate starting from Secondary School, Higher Secondary, Degree, Postgraduate or Other Technical Degree, Diploma, Nursing, ITI and any or every other relevant certificates.
- Non-Educational Certificates: Apart from other educational certificates, there are other required documents too, which are being issued from the Government of India. These include, birth certificate, marriage certificate, transfer and leaving certificate, any kind of medical certificate, certificate of divorce, experience and other provisional certificates. All these have to be authenticated by respective state home ministry, sub-divisional magistrate and general administration department before going to MEA or embassy authentication.
- Supporting documents: These include the documents, which vary from one country to another and have to be verified with the respective country’s embassy or consulate office. Usually, the documents that are required to be submitted are mark-sheets, passport copy, photo, registration certificate, selection letter, etc.
Along with the above, university verification, translation and notary attestation are also required for certain embassies before submitting to home ministry.
Summary: You can be assured of a hassle free process of attestation if you have all the necessary documents ready with you. All you need to do is, a bit of a research work online as well as offline before approaching the respective embassy department for certificate attestation. After that, it is just a cake walk!
