Why I hate abroad
- 27 September 2010 16:3372726So my brother, has decided to take a two year consultancy job in Oman, and asks me to get a copy of his University Certificate, get it attested at the embassy and sent to his new employer (who is happy to believe that he has spent the past few decades as a highly paid executive with a multi-national oil firm but not that he has a degree presumably?).
Brother being in middle of cycling from Canada to New Mexico I have all sorts of problems getting copy of degree cert from Cambridge but eventually it arrives, at a price, and very nice and official it looks too.
Phone up Oman Embassy yes they will attest it for a price. BUT it first must be attested by our Foreign Office.
Phone up our foreign office. Yes they will attest it for a price (in Milton Keynes of all places!). BUT it must be first attested by a solicitor.
Phone up local solicitor Yes he will attest it at a price.
I despair.......
- 27 September 2010 17:5172741that is how they finance their embassies and consulates bob.
the u.a.e one has always demanded more documents than most, put yourselves in the place of an exporter who will need a certificate of origin, invoice, bill of lading, black list, packing inventory and sundry other certificates all legalised.
not forgetting that they all have to certified by the chamber of commerce first. - 27 September 2010 18:1372742Howard, I won't use the word but '**** start at Calais'.
The interesting question is why is it the worse the **ithole of a country the more difficult it is to get a visa? Nigeria being a prime example. - 27 September 2010 18:3072745Bob, In the old days (1978) when applying for a work visa for Saudi Arabia, I also had to have my CV, all my education certificates (including O levels) and previous employer references translated into Arabic at my expense, the originals certified in the manner you describe, and the translations certified by the Arab-British Chamber of Commerce and ratified by the Saudi consulate, also for the customary fee. My advice is keep all the certified copies (they normally will return them to you) in case you need them again. I have successfully used certified copies nearly 20 years old when applying for work visas for other Arab countries.
Oh, and an Islamic religious authority also had to certify the correct translation of the dates from the Gregorian calendar to the Hijra one. Again for a fee.
Oi veh!
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