Canada Certificate Attestation for UAE

The process for attesting Canadian-issued documents varies significantly from what applies with other countries. The main distinction is the lack of apostilles issued by Hague convention. In place of that, Canada has a process named “Authentication and Legalization” in place. As one would expect, it requires attestation for such documents to pass over into legal validity and usability in the UAE.

The Basics of Canadian-Issued Document Attestation

The attestation process involves sending the relevant document to Canada & to Ministry of Foreign Affairs in UAE, where the following things should happen in order.

Authentication: The document gets transferred to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) in Canda and awaits approval. After receiving the same, it has a Certificate of Authentication attached to it.

Legalisation: The document is sent to the UAE Embassy in Ottawa in Canada, where a Certificate of Legalisation is added to it.

After the above thing have happened, your document like degree,birth, marriage would need to be sent back to the UAE, and attested at MOFA (Ministry of Foreign Affairs). After that, it is sent back to the owner, who can then start using it in the UAE.

The procedure remains standard for the most part, although slight variations can occur based on what type of document you need to get attested. For instance, Canadian Degree Attestation requires a copy of the documents be sent directly from the Canadian University/Institution to the UAE Embassy. The latter also holds on to the transcripts afterwards.

With some documents, you may be required to notarize them before Authentication and Legalization can be done. That effectively requires you to have a notary public or lawyer present when such a document is signed, as well as have this official attach a signed notary seal on it, which then serves as proof of legitimacy. After all that is done, you can move on into.

The hassles involved can be tremendous, which is why it is good to rely on attestation services agency like World Attestation for smoothing the way. We provide comprehensive, end-to-end services for birth certificate attestation, marriage certificate attestation or degree certificate attestation & any other document attestation. Our attestation services relieve you the need to be physically present at any point in the process. Thanks to our courteous staff used to managing even the most major unforeseeable issues tactfully, you can rest easy that the whole thing will run its course without a single bump. We also remain in constant contact up until hand over your fully attested documents to you.