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There are 4 main steps involved in Apostile process in India
Document Attestation process
There are two kinds of methods for educational
certificate attestation in Delhi NCR, any of which can be pursue to
apostile your educational certificates/Documents, The procedures for
Apostile is explained below:
Step 1: Notary Attestation Notary is the main procedure
which is to done on documents before other legalizations. This can be
treated as the initial procedure of apostile. The notarization makes a
document legalized to carry out attestation and legalizations. Notarization
gets the educational and general documents qualify for all the attestations
including Home Department of respective states, Human Resource Department
(HRD) of respective states, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) New Delhi andSaudi Embassy Legalizations/MOFA New Delhi and Mumbai. This Notary is
necessary for the authentication process.
Step 2: State Human Resource Department ( H.R.D) Authentication – For
Educational Certificates State education department or HRD
attestation is the method of authentication and apostile of educational
documents. After 2007, the procedure for HRD attestation has been altered
and the most hectic procedure of Apostile, HRD attestation, has now been
relinquished to the State’s General Administrative Departments (GAD) of the
respective Governments from the State where you have obtained your degree /
diploma or any other educational certificates. The HRD authentication
centres are accessible in each State capital. The State’s GAD/HRD
authenticates the document once the credentials of the certificate are
verified. HRD Authentication is the correct and precise depiction of the
authenticity of that specified certificate.
State’s Administrative Department for Higher Education attests all
certificate issued by Govt. School, Govt. Technical Board, Medical and
Paramedical Institutions, Private and Govt. Universities etc. After
finishing of the verification process the certificate can carry out the
Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) located in New Delhi and Embassy of
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (SACA – Saudi Arabia Cultural office Attestation)
New Delhi.
Types of Educational Certificates:- These are the
educational certificates, diplomas and degrees acquired from school and
college i.e. Certificates like SSLC/10th/CBSE, PDC/+2/HSC, Degrees like BA,
Bsc, Bcom, BTech, BE, BBA, BSc, CA, BEd, MBBS. Post graduate degrees like
MA, Msc, Mcom, MBA, MCA, M Tech, B Pharm, M Pharm, Nursing, MSc Nursing etc.
and other professional Diplomas, Nursing and ITI certificates.
HRD Ministry attestation procedure: Get your degrees and
educational certificates attested from Department of Higher Education from
the State in which your educational institute situated, from where you have
obtained the education.
The documents required for HRD attestation are:-
- Original and photocopy of Degree and certificates.
- Original and photocopies of 10th and 12th class Mark sheets.
- Original and photocopies of Final year degree and mark sheets
- An Application form which you can get from the HRD itself.
- Passport size photograph (1) to be pasted on the application form.
- An Affidavit acknowledging your Personal, Professional and Educational
details along with the passport number and the intention why you want
your degree attested in a 10 stamp.
- Attach all the photocopies of degrees, certificates and mark sheets
along with the Affidavit and Application form.
- All these photocopies should be attested from a gazette officer.
Submit the above mentioned documents in the higher
education department and
hold the original degree and passport with you in safe custody. The degree
will be attested by the Secretary, Department of Higher Education and he
will ask for your passport and the reason for attestation. You will get the
degree attested the same day.
Please make sure that the Vice Chancellor’s sign and seal must
be clear in
your degree and certificate, otherwise it may be rejected by the Ministry of
HRD.
Please make sure that the Vice Chancellor’s sign and seal must be clear in
your degree and certificate, otherwise it may be rejected by the Ministry of
HRD.
Step 3:
Ministry of External Affairs Attestation (MEA)
After the HRD attestation and legalization, then the educational
certificates and degrees have to be attested by Ministry of Eternal Affairs
New Delhi. It hardly takes a few hours to complete this apostile task if one
is located in Delhi NCR. Anybody on behalf of the candidate can do it, no ID
proof required and no fees also. Ministry of Eternal Affairs New Delhi
attestation is working under the Ministry of External Affairs of the Govt.
of India. Ministry of External Affairs attests all the certificates issued
in all state of India. MEA attestation is compulsory for apostile in Delhi.
Ministry of External Affairs attestation is available in 5 major
cities of India, it includes Hyderabad, Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata and Guwahati
in north east. A addresses of the MEA Regional Authentication Centers and
the appropriate authorities (as on July 8, 2013) can be taken from the MEA
website
MEA apostile is needed to make the educational document or
certificate valid within India and abroad. The procedure of Attestation of
certificates/documents from MEA can be carried out on all theCertificates/documents, if the certificates are issued by Indian government
Authorities.
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