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Philippines and UAE are getting stricter in making sure that the papers we present (for employment or for other purpose) are legitimate. In case you’re wondering why there are so many steps in authenticating these papers, it is to ensure that the documents are not fake. Afterwards, you can present these documents to MOFA in Bur Dubai for them to be accepted as legal and valid for use in the UAE. You still need to have these Philippine documents attested by the UAE embassy in Manila before presenting them to MOFA. You may have to walk in to the DFA to have them certified with red-ribbon stamp first before you proceed to the next steps. If you have some other documents such as your birth certificate or marriage contract that need to be attested by MOFA, you need to proceed to step 2. What about other Documents like Marriage Certificate, Birth Certificate, NBI Clearance, etc? So if you are planning to pass these authenticated documents for your work, please be aware of the time and fees. For us to get everything authenticated and ready to submit for family visa, it took about 1.5 months to 2 months for everything to be completed.Īs per announcement, the UAE Law requires that original documents should be submitted when applying for visas.

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Please make sure that you allot time as each step may require a week or more plus the processing fees by each department. Regardless, it would be the MOFA staff that will advise you if you need to go to our embassy in Dubai first prior to having it stamped there.Ībove is just a general flow of the process in getting your documents approved by UAE government. In our situation, we did not have to go to this process as it was already stamped in the Philippines. Note: We’ve heard from other people that before the document is attested at the MOFA, the document needs to be authenticated at the Philippine Consulate General office in UAE first. For other MOFA offices in the UAE, you can check the MOFA website. After the MOFA stamp, it can now be submitted to the employer or to whichever governing body it is intended for. There’s a MOFA branch in Bur Dubai where we dropped by to have them authenticated. The next and last step is to present them directly to MOFA.

Attestation at UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs – The documents have arrived in our hands here in the UAE. All we had to do was pay some more fees to for them to request that these papers be authenticated with a ‘red ribbon’ stamp. We did not have to walk-in to DFA anymore. DFA “Red Ribbon” Authentication – Fortunately for us, the school already had a system where they will send it themselves. The school submitted the documents to CHED (Commission on Higher Education) and CHED brought the documents to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) for red-ribbon seal.Ģ. We paid the fee and waited for the school to process it. TOR & Diploma – Request for a copy of school diploma and TOR from the school registrar where you graduated in the Philippines. In our case, I was able to go back home during my vacation leave to request the documents from the school (Step 1) and I had my sister process the rest. Sometimes the authorization letter is also required to be notarized. In case you will have somebody like a relative/friend process these documents for you, you should be ready to have an authorization letter with your signature plus a photocopy of your ID and the ID of your relative attached. Note that the documents we are referring to in this article are the Transcript of Records and the Diploma. Guide to Processing Red Ribbon and UAE-Authenticated Diploma / School Records We want to help our fellow Pinoys in understanding the procedure for their reference. Please be advised that this article acts as a guide based on a Filipino’s experience, and may differ per case.

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More details here – How to Process Philippine Documents in UAE via LBC Express (DFA Red Ribbon, PRC Renewal, NSO Birth, Marriage Cert, etc.) LBC Express in UAE is offering a Document Processing service. UPDATE: There is a new option to have your documents authenticated by DFA. In this post, we outline the steps on how to authenticate your diploma and TOR. We had to get one ourselves when we applied for a family visa and employment. It’s a long process but everybody has to go through with it. But before having it attested by MOFA, you need to have your diploma authenticated by the UAE embassy in the Philippines and sealed with red-ribbon authentication by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) in the Philippines. These documents will only be accepted by the UAE government once they are attested by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA). As a Filipino resident in Dubai, one of the things that you normally have to submit to process visas for employment or sponsorship would be your university diploma and Transcript of Records (TOR).

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