Have you ever wondered why Indians are the largest part of expatriates residing in United Arab Emirates (UAE)? In my opinion, there are multiple answers to this question and topmost are better job opportunities due to the presence of well-known companies like DHL and Omnicom Media Group, friendly relation of country with India, and increased opportunity in country due to petroleum and financial industry. Now if any of you are planning for shifting to UAE for taking advantage of these benefits then first you should know about the document attestation procedure for UAE. The steps involved in this process are as follows.
- The first step includes authentication of the documents by your respective state. If you want to attest your educational degree certificates then they will be authenticated by the Human Resource Development (HRD) of the state which issued the degree. The personal documents will be authenticated by the State Home department and the commercial documents like invoices will be validated by the Chamber of Commerce.
- After authentication from the state, the documents will be attested by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). MEA holds the sole authority in India to attest the documents of the general public. MEA attestation will be done on the basis of validation done by the previous departments. One can easily find the services regarding MEA attestation in Chennai and other Indian cities.
- After MEA the documents will be sent further to the UAE embassy in New Delhi for attestation. UAE Embassy attestation is a crucial procedure that can’t be ignored or left out.
- At last the documents will be sent to UAE for Ministry of External Affairs’ (MOFA) attestation. MOFA attestation is the additional step for getting UAE visa and for most countries, documents are attested by their embassies only. UAE added this step for preventing any unwanted entry in the country.
The attested documents can be used for various purposes in UAE. The first and foremost purpose is checking the authenticity of your documents and then processing the visa. Incomplete document attestation can reject your visa request. Other than that the attested documents are used while taking admission in a foreign country or while joining a company overseas.
Now we know that document attestation consumes a lot of time and apart from this fact, one will also have to visit different government offices for this attestation work. Most of the companies will attest your documents from all the required departments and that’s why we suggest you to opt an agency for your attestation work. There are plenty of companies which are engaged in document attestation work but you should always go for a trusted company with required experience in this field. In 2012 after MEA outsourced its documents collection work, there are some companies which are authorized for this collection work. Now avail services regarding MEA Certificate Attestation in Pune and other cities.
