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[Mia Xanthi]

[Never Ceased To Be Amazed]

[scot47]

NCTBA
Those bad chemicals are building up in your brain again.

[cmp45]

[Never Ceased To Be Amazed]

[ghost]

[johnslat]

Dear cmp45,
"It can be hard sometimes to predict how a person will react, or cope living and working in KSA."

Oh, so very true. I knew individuals there who actually BECAME alcoholics in the Kingdom, while others (such as myself, for example) turned into teetotalers (something those who knew me before my sojourn there would have found difficult, if not impossible, impossible to believe.)

[Imdramayu]

Is it possible to have my US university transcript & degree certificate mailed to US cultural mission (USCM) with a payment and envelope to send it to my local Saudi embassy? That would be quicker than the US university mailing it to me, me mailing it back to USCM, then USCM mailing it to me. Wouldn't it? The Saudi embassy in Washington website states that some documents they certify will be automatically forwarded to the required embassy. See www.saudiembassy.net

In the US, is there an equivalent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs which also must certify my US university degree certificate and transcript?

This is contact info for USCM in Washington. Their website is all about Saudi students studying in the US so they may no very helpful in answering questions.

Saudi Arabian Cultural Mission
2600 Virginia Avenue, Suite 800
Washington D.C. 20037
Phone (202) 337-9450
Fax (202) 337-2978
SACM E-mail [email protected]

http://www.sacmonline.us/new/

University Degrees (from www.saudiembassy.net)
For verification of university degrees, the following should be sent to:
Saudi Cultural Mission
2600 Virginia Ave. Suite # 800
Washington, D.C. 20037
Name of applicant & S.S#.
Name of Employer.
Name of the Courier Agency.
A letter stating the reasons of for requiring Authentication.
A copy of the employment contract.
A copy of the applicant's passport.
A certified copy of the applicant's college/university degree.
Updated official transcript (in a sealed envelope).
Name of the college/university and telephone number of the registrar or the records office.
Verification letter from the registrar's office including applicant's SS#. (School ID number), and the telephone number and the contact person in the registrar's office.
Written consent to allow the Saudi Cultural Mission to verify the degrees.

[Mia Xanthi]

[Imdramayu]

Mia....this is what I need to know. From what you're saying, the State Department needs to certify my US degree certificate and transscript? What's their address?

[johnslat]

Here's the website, with addresses:

http://www.state.gov/aboutstatedepartment/

Regards,
John

[Axel Heidsman]

It certainly seems that, as far as one criterion is concerned, it's easier to be selected as a candidate for the US presidency than as an English teacher in a Gulf university. At the age of 72, John McCain - with an MA in TESOL and fifty years of experience - would be wasting his time applying for a job here. If a considerable proportion of the American public will probably vote to select JMcC for what is arguably the most important job in the world, why won't institutions of higher learning consider recruiting teachers over sixty? What qualities must teachers have that are not required of US presidents? Instead of reducing the qualifications needed for employment, why not raise the cut-off age for recruitment? Applicants are screened by interviewers to ensure that no youthful lunatics are selected. The same procedure could surely filter out the senile [perhaps with more success, I hear you say]. This would be more cost effective than broadening the catchment to include married teachers with children by increasing the education allowance. [Does this sound familiar?]

[Cleopatra]

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