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Latest post on 22 August 2011 - 15:58

Apologies if this has been asked before but I have done a search and not found a thread on it...

We have a British passport for our DD (me and DH are both British) and now need to get DD a visa. My husband's company's PRO has said we need to get our marriage certificate attested. Having researched it, it seems we have to get this legalised by the FCO in Milton Keynes then attested at the UAE Embassy in UK and then attested at the UAE Embassy here in Dubai and then the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

This sounds like a nightmare! Has anyone recently got a visa (for DIFC) for their LO and can tell me that there is a simpler way or if there is a company that will do this for you, especially the UK part??? Any advice would be great, thanks.

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Latest post on 30 August 2011 - 23:37

The British Embassy here are doing some kind of trial in September, check out UK in UAE on FB. I received a status on this the other day, not understand all the ins and out, but I think it said you don"t have to send documents back to the UK for attesting.

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Latest post on 30 August 2011 - 23:17

Your DH's PRO is correct as that is what we had to do as well. I couriered the certificate to Milton Keynes with the return address to my sister's in the UK. She took it down to the UAE office in London and then couriered it back to me and then I did all the leg work here in Dubai. In total it took around 10 days. Once done thats the end of it. I think you will find on the DIFC website that is one of the requirements. DH visa is DIFC and we have just recently done it for DD.

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Latest post on 30 August 2011 - 21:18

Hi there, I went through this process in January... I moved out to Dubai to join DH - only to be told by company lawyers that the marriage certificate had to go to Milton Keynes, then to London, and then come back to Dubai... Not ideal! We sent it with couriers to Milton Keynes and that part happened within days, arriving back at my parents' UK address a week after it had left Dubai. We could have arranged for it to be sent it straight onto London, but I was too worried about it getting lost, so decided to fly home and take it there myself (you drop it off in the morning and pick it up 5 hours later). I then flew back to Dubai and the company lawyers sorted out the rest (nb, it took about 30 days, so I was worried I'd be fined for overstaying my visa, but it never happened).

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Latest post on 24 August 2011 - 22:35

Hi NinaSimone Yes, got married in Aus. I took it first to the Aus consulate and they did attest it (I didn't explain what it was for so they just did it), but residency dept told me they wouldn't accept it & to take it to Foreign Affairs dept & no need to have gotten it attested to by Aus consulate. I did however take the copy that had been attested to by Aus consulate to the foreign affairs dept and had them attest that copy, just in case as things seem to change from day to day and from person to person. Good luck. I ran around in circles for weeks trying to get all of my paperwork sorted out so I understand how painful it is!!!

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Latest post on 24 August 2011 - 22:20

The visa processing was AED1,500. Not cheap! But DH was having problems with his work refusing to do it and having just had a baby I was in no mood to go running around town. I think I just had to give Baby Steps a copy of the cert, then the originals for the baby's certs. It is pricey but hassle free and they had it all done in a few days.

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Latest post on 24 August 2011 - 21:39

Thanks niggles. We used baby steps to get DS's birth certificate which was very hassle free. I suppose I didn't want to pay baby steps for marriage certificate assestation as my husband's company has a PRO service. But they have said we have to get it certified as it has to go to UK etc which has irritated me slightly - if baby steps can do it why can't the PRO as I'm pretty sure baby steps don't send it to UK!! From what u say it doesn't even need to be attested here. Not sure why PRO can't just sort the visa out without insisting on attestation. However PRO service has refused to sort visa out without it being attested and insist only we can do it! I was going to go to min of foreign affairs tomorrow but the more I think about it the more I might get DH to insist PRO does it without bothering with attestation. It's a DIFC visa so not sure if DIFC insist on it. If they do then I'll probably use baby steps to avoid hassle. Can u remember approx. how much it cost?

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Latest post on 24 August 2011 - 20:10

My son has a British passport and when we did his visa here we did not need the cert attested. Our marriage cert has never been attested. I gave all the paperwork to babysteps and they did everything for me. Not cheap mind you!

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Latest post on 24 August 2011 - 14:54

EJC - just to confirm, when you took your marriage certificate to the Australian Embassy, they did NOT attest it? Did you get married in Australia? I got married in Kenya in Dec 2010 (my husband and I are both Aussies). Apparently we need to send our marriage certificate back to Nairobi Ministry of Foreign Affiars, have it attested there, then the UAE Kenya embassy and then the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Why does this country make everything so ****** difficult. The process I have just explained above, can you tell me if this sounds correct? You may have more knowlege as you recently just did the process.

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Latest post on 24 August 2011 - 10:14

Thanks EJC I'll try that first! Then if not I'll have to go down the whole sending it to UK route, aarrhhhhh!!

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Latest post on 22 August 2011 - 17:24

Hi Waterbaby I had my marriage certificate attested to about 4 months ago after arriving in Dubai at the UAE Foreign Affairs dept (Bur Dubai). I'm Australian so I first went to the Australian consulate here and had it attested to but when I presented it with the paperwork for my Residence Permit I was told that I didn't need to do this and I had to go to the UAE Foreign Affairs dept instead. Next day I went to the Foreign Affairs dept showed my passport and marraige cert and it was done in about 10 minutes.

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Latest post on 22 August 2011 - 17:03

No problem, I hope you can somehow find an easier way! I found it alot easier to call the embassy in Aus first, find a person to talk to and I sent to them, got their email address and went about it that way. It felt better sending those documents to someone rather than just anyone. ;)

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Latest post on 22 August 2011 - 16:07

Thanks for the reply by the way Sparkly

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Latest post on 22 August 2011 - 16:07

Oh no!! I thought that might be the reply - was so hoping there was a quick and easy solution!!

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Latest post on 22 August 2011 - 16:03

Hi Waterbaby, I'm not from the UK but the process you have described is exactly what I had to do for my marriage cert and all education certificates when I came here. Had to send them all back to Aus to be attested in the UAE Embassy there then here at Embassy, then MOFA. I think that regardless of where the visa will be, the process is the same as it is a MOFA policy. Really is a hassle! Good luck :)

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