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Sheikit · Joined: 30 Sep 2013 Posts: 34

when applying for a job/iqama, did you have to notarise your certificate?

or was the Certifying Statement enough?

Cambridge wants to charge 128 pounds sterling for a notary to put a stamp on a piece of paper, so I want to find out if it is necessary for a visa before i shell out the cash.

thanks!

plumpy nut · Joined: 12 Mar 2011 Posts: 1652

Don't bother with the time or expense of notarizing your TESOL/CELTA certificate. The SACM only needs your university/college degrees notarized. Just send them the certificate, that is sufficient. I had my degrees notarized by a notary at a bank. It worked for me.

Sheikit · Joined: 30 Sep 2013 Posts: 34

thanks plumpy nut, but the problem is that i only get one original copy of my DELTA certificate. will the SACM give it back to me? if they don't, UCLES won't issue me a new one. or can i send them a copy ?

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

NEVER let originals out of your hands!!! Only send copies, but bring your originals with you.

VS

sicklyman · Joined: 02 Feb 2013 Posts: 930

notarisation doesn't need to be done with originals anyway and certainly not with a certificate as convincing as the hologrammed DELTA. You only need to have copies notarised so that the receiver can be assured that they are true copies of the original.

I had a visa agent do all this for me for Saudi so I didn't have to bother myself but waaaay back when I did need to do it myself for another job, I just walked into a random high street lawyer's office and asked them to do it. Unbelievably, they charged me a fiver a document. I honestly don't think they knew what they could have been charging.