Attestation Process

[NJcara]

I'd appreciate it if someone could "walk me through" the process in terms of timing and steps required, for having the required documents attested. Obviously my husbands diploma, birth cert, our marriage cert. What about my birth cert and my 16 yr old son? Do we need to do anything about our 18 and 20 yr old daughters birth certificates if they are only staying for a month or so when we first arrive?
Please clarify whether or not we need to have them attested through the UAE Embassy here in NY prior to arriving or do we do all this when we get to Dubai? What about notarizing the documents? Or is that unnecessary/duplicate work?
Thanks again!
Cara

[qwert97]

Originally Posted by NJcara

I'd appreciate it if someone could "walk me through" the process in terms of timing and steps required, for having the required documents attested. Obviously my husbands diploma, birth cert, our marriage cert. What about my birth cert and my 16 yr old son? Do we need to do anything about our 18 and 20 yr old daughters birth certificates if they are only staying for a month or so when we first arrive?
Please clarify whether or not we need to have them attested through the UAE Embassy here in NY prior to arriving or do we do all this when we get to Dubai? What about notarizing the documents? Or is that unnecessary/duplicate work?
Thanks again!
Cara

YOur husbands diploma, Marriage certificate and birth certificate of your son needs to be attested. If your daughter is arriving for a month no need to get that attested. The documents have to be first attested at State Level by Secretary of State, then by Foreign affairs in Washington and finally by UAE embassy in the US. Different states have different requirements at the Secretary of State office.

[NJcara]

LOL, Nothing of MINE needs to be verified huh? Even in Riyadh they cared about my documents! grrrrrrrrrr.
OK so we need to send all the originals to the the various offices then once they are all returned, they come with us to Dubai for the final process there?
We don't have an exact date of departure yet, but I guess it would be wise to start the attestation process now? Or is a date of arrival needed for them to be attested?
Cara

[qwert97]

Originally Posted by NJcara

LOL, Nothing of MINE needs to be verified huh? Even in Riyadh they cared about my documents! grrrrrrrrrr.
OK so we need to send all the originals to the the various offices then once they are all returned, they come with us to Dubai for the final process there?
We don't have an exact date of departure yet, but I guess it would be wise to start the attestation process now? Or is a date of arrival needed for them to be attested?
Cara

Its wise to get them attested at the earliest irrespective of the date of travel. Once you get them attested you need to bring them with you. If you plan to work in Dubai, you should also get your highest education certificate attested.

In my case Canadian Foreign affairs attestation took 15 business days since I could not travel to them. For walk ins they did it on the spot.

[sgilli3]

The only documents of yours you will need attesting (apart from wedding certificate), is your school certificate (and thats really only if you plan on working here), so if in the future you want to work, I would have the document attested along with all of the others

[Mrman]

Hi. Most of the school application I see only need Birth certs for kids, but not necessarily attested. What reason would the birth cert need legalization?

[Maz25]

Originally Posted by Mrman

Hi. Most of the school application I see only need Birth certs for kids, but not necessarily attested. What reason would the birth cert need legalization?

If you want to sponsor your children's residency visa, you need to have their birth certificates attested and legalised.

[TinkerbellsMuse]

Originally Posted by NJcara

I'd appreciate it if someone could "walk me through" the process in terms of timing and steps required, for having the required documents attested. Obviously my husbands diploma, birth cert, our marriage cert. What about my birth cert and my 16 yr old son? Do we need to do anything about our 18 and 20 yr old daughters birth certificates if they are only staying for a month or so when we first arrive?
Please clarify whether or not we need to have them attested through the UAE Embassy here in NY prior to arriving or do we do all this when we get to Dubai? What about notarizing the documents? Or is that unnecessary/duplicate work?
Thanks again!
Cara

Cara,
We are from NJ also and I ordered our attested marriage certificate also called an Apostille then my husband flew to DC and had it attested at the State Department...Took 20 minutes. Then off to the UAE Embassy he went with a prepaid FedEx Envelope and a money order for $30. We had the marriage certificate back in 4 days. PM me if you want anymore info.

Kristin

[NJcara]

Hi Kristin, Just PM'd you as well.
What do you mean you "ordered" your attested marriage certificate? We have our original, do we not just send that to the UAE Embassy in DC?

[TinkerbellsMuse]

Each state has a different process for an Apostille (Attestation). We were married in Hawaii and I had to order and attested marriage cert. Here is a link to the process. Follow the link in step 4 for New Jersey's process. As I type this the links aren't working but I am sure they will be.