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Attesting certificates....HELP!

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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 06 December 2011 - 14:14

Ok so Alhamdulliah I have landed a job and signed contract but now she wants my NVQ attesting. Did debate doing the milton keynes thing before we left UK but couldn't afford to get EVERYTHING done and as I don't hold a degree we decided to just wait and see what happens.

So now I need to send my NVQ back to the UK. But I'm a little confused about where to send after that as originally I thought there were only 3 places that needed to stamp it but it turns out after speaking to the AD branch of British Council that there could be 4?
It also seems that people are using different names for places (eg. milton keynes referred to as UK British Council and also the Legislation Office) which has added to my confusion.

Please can someone advise what I need to do once milton keynes have given it the first stamp =)

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EW GURU
Latest post on 06 December 2011 - 17:44
P.S. The whole authentication process was done by my company in AD, which is a government institution so probably more strict, but it did not need to be translated to Arabic.
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EW GURU
Latest post on 06 December 2011 - 17:40
My UK degree certificate was done by the following: 1. A UK solicitor certifying it as a true copy. 2. Foreign Commonwealth Office, London, 3. UAE Consulate London and 4. Ministry of Foreign Affairs UAE. This is pretty much standard for UK documents. Each stamp is basically verifying the authenticity of the one before it. Now as I understand it for the FCO in London to stamp it, its needs to be authenticated by the Ministry of Education to verify that the university stamp is a genuine one as the FCO will not be able to verify an educational institution's stamp/signatory, so many get around this by having a UK solicitor basically certifying it as a true copy, the FCO will then 'authenticate' the signature of the solicitor who signed in their presence and then the chain can continue. Technically it isn't the right way to do it as it doesn't verify anything really but all they care about here is having that MOFA stamp on it.
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 06 December 2011 - 14:42
So far I understand it as: Legislation Office (UK) British Embassy (AD) Ministry of foreign affairs (AD) ....and then the new one is ministry of labour (AD) ?? I am having to translate it into Arabic as well and get it attested - but have been advised that only the ministry of labour needs to stamp it?