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nomad soul
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| By the way, even the smallest college, university or vocational school has a registrar or official who can attest to the authenticity of the documents they issue. |
I know from personal experience that this is not entirely true. My TEFL course was with Oxford Seminars which is affiliated with Oxford University Press.... I asked them if they could provide a notarized diploma or even a notarized letter of matriculation and they said that it was not their policy to do so and that they had never been asked for one. |
My posts have focused solely on obtaining an apostille for bona fide academic certificates and degrees completed at an accredited institution of higher learning.
Although Oxford Seminars rents space at various universities for its classes, its TEFL cert is by no means an academic qualification with university course credits despite its affiliation with Oxford University's publishing department.
I don't want to hijack Rusty's thread, so I'll leave it at that. |
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RustyShackleford
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This has been long since over but here's what wound up happening:
I sent DHLed my diploma and a photocopy over to the California Secretary of State with the payment with an envelope to send to my family's address in the US.
The Secretary of States cries foul that it doesn't specify what this document is for, so my family has to send it back with a note that specifies it is for Spain.
Secretary sends the Apostille to my family who send it to my address in Spain because I was living there on a tourist visa due to having no other recourse.
I fly back to Vietnam(!) and go to Hanoi.
The Embassy of Spain in Hanoi agrees to process my documents (after some screaming and convincing) and gives me my visa a week later. |
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tideout
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| Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 7:59 pm Post subject: apostille |
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So, just to clarify - I should be ok with jumping through hoops there with an FBI background ck and US Department of State apostille no?
On a side note - I'm having a hard time linking up the FBI channelers to an apostille from the State dept. In other words, there's no Federal Department head at the FBI approved channeler's business. In the past, I always asked for an FBI department head to sign off which made it possible to send to the US Department of State.
Additionally, my TESOL teaching certificate was apostilled in another state in the past. They actually apostilled copies of the original document.
Sorry if this is confusing!! |
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RustyShackleford
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| Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2015 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Simply put, for Vietnam, you don't need any apostille for any document. I just went to the US consulate and had them notarize which was good enough for my employers. |
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tideout
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| Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2015 7:17 pm Post subject: |
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| RustyShackleford wrote: |
| Simply put, for Vietnam, you don't need any apostille for any document. I just went to the US consulate and had them notarize which was good enough for my employers. |
Sounds like I should be good with a notarized state, county or even city background check.
On a side note, I contacted several approved FBI channelers and it appears they cannot supply department head signatures. This means that US Department of State cannot apostille FBI checks via the faster channelers.
What a drag. The feds say it's now 13-14 weeks for a fed check. |
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RustyShackleford
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| Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2015 6:51 pm Post subject: |
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| I used a check for my county and my visa handlers were perfectly happy to take it. Took about a month and even less. |
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tideout
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| Thanks guys, appreciate the posts. |
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chrisms86
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| Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 3:22 am Post subject: |
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| Simply put, for Vietnam, you don't need any apostille for any document. I just went to the US consulate and had them notarize which was good enough for my employers. |
One reason I think we hear a lot of varying stories on work permit requirements is the employer can be another layer of bureaucracy with its own rules. Mine told me I needed authentication from my state, and I needed legalization from the embassy in my home country. Both required sending my documents back home.
What I mean is my employer rejected my documents and gave them back to me to get this done. Without getting the Vietnamese embassy legalization they wouldn't have bothered applying for a work permit. |
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