Nellie,

We are also South Africans (living in Ireland) and hoping to move out to Abu Dhabi soon. My understanding of the process is that the documents need to be certified/attested by both the issuing country and the UAE officialdom.

We had our documents attested by the South African Embassy over here in Ireland. Take the originals along with a copy and they will stamp it all. You then need to take this copy, again along with the original, to the 'Home Office' in the UAE and they will certifiy it as well. We had birth certs, marraige certs, passport page copies done.

If you are going on a 'scouting mission' it would be the ideal time to do this. We left it to the last day without relaising that the government offices are only open till luch time. So we will just have to do it next time.


We did not realise at the time we had to have the Educational things done so I'm not too sure how this works

Hope this helps,