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Stage 3 of 7 · 6 lessons · ~2 weeks

Degrees, attestation and documents

Get your degree, transcripts and other papers into a form your destination accepts, before an offer arrives. Attestation, apostilles and recognition checks run through offices you do not control, so they belong early in the plan.

Start: Why your degree must be recognised

Lessons· one lesson for each topic, in this order

  1. 1Why your degree must be recognised
  2. 2Pakistan: HEC, IBCC and the Foreign Office
  3. 3India, Bangladesh and other countries
  4. 4Apostille or embassy legalisation
  5. 5Germany: anabin and the ZAB
  6. 6The rest of your document kit

Do this

  • Find out whether your destination accepts an apostille or needs embassy legalisation.
  • Start degree and transcript attestation at your home country's education authority.
  • Check your degree in the destination's recognition system, if it has one.
  • Request experience letters from every past employer while contacts are still there.
  • Check passport validity and apply for a police clearance certificate if needed.
  • Scan everything into one folder and note each document's expiry date.

Start with· follow one of these

Practise

  • Notion

    Track each document, the office that handles it, its status and its expiry date

Keep handy

Also worth your time

Before moving on: A document plan: each document you need for your destination, the office that issues or attests it, whether you need an apostille or legalisation, recognition steps such as anabin or verification, and a start date for each, with the slowest ones already started.

Tauseef's advice
Start the paperwork the week you choose a destination. I have seen good offers delayed by months because a degree was stuck in attestation. And never pay a "fast-track" agent who promises stamps without your originals: forged attestation is a fast way to a ban.

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