Saudi Embassy Personal - commercial Document Legalisation
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GulfVisa provides a document attestation service for your personal documents from the Saudi Arabian embassy in London, UK. For example, if you are planning on working or moving to the Saudi Arabia, you may require various documents to be attested from the Saudi Embassy. These may include degrees, marriage certificates and birth certificates.
GulfVisa offers a document legalisation service which provides you with a quick one-stop solution to get your documents legalised from all these different organisations quickly and easily. We offer services which include stamping from the solicitor, British Foreign Office (FCO) and UAE embassy.
Welcome to our new GulfVisa website. We have summarised the whole process into three easy steps. To begin your Saudi Arabia embassy document attestation process, please scroll down to step 1.
Do I need to send the original document or a copy?
Police Certificates
More Information:How to get your documents legalised from the Saudi Arabia embassy - 3 simple steps
- Your Original Personal Document
- A copy of the passport information page for each person whose document(s) needs to be legalised
- if it is a Birth Certificate the embassy needs three passports copies (one for each: child, father and mother.)
- if it is a Marriage Certificate the embassy needs two passport copies (one for each: husband and wife)
3. Completed GulfVisa Document Legalisation Form (click download box on the right)
There are three compulsory parts to getting your document attested from the Saudi Arabia embassy.
Firstly, GulfVisa will stamp your document from a Solicitor (some documents are exempt – see below)
Secondly, we will stamp your document from the British Foreign Ministry (FCO)
Finally, we will stamp your document from the Saudi Embassy in London
The following documents are exempt from solicitor stamping (still need FCO stamping before stamping from Saudi Embassy):
- Original UK Birth Certificate
- Original UK Government Marriage Certificate
- Original UK Police Clearance Certificate (ACRO only)
- Original UK Death Certificate
- Original UK Medical Report signed by a UK Doctor*
* UK doctor must be registered with the British Foreign Office (FCO) Legalisation Department
Do I need to send the original document or a copy?
You always need to provide your original certificate. Whether the original document or a copy of it is stamped depends on the following points:
- If your document is not exempt from solicitor stamping, we will make a copy of your document and stamp the copy. This is because the solicitor does not stamp originals. However, the solicitor must still see the original.
- If your document is exempt from solicitor stamping (see list above), your original document will be stamped. This is because the FCO does not allow stamping of copies. Therefore, you must provide the original certificate.
Police Certificates
ACRO Police Certificates are the only police certificates which do not require solicitor stamping. Therefore, you will only have to select the service which includes FCO + Saudi Embassy Legalisation. A non-ACRO police certificate can still be stamped however unlike ACRO it will require legalisation from the solicitor before it can be stamped by the FCO and Saudi embassy.
Therefore, please select the service which includes solicitor, FCO and embassy for non-ACRO police certificates
More Information:
There are a wide variety of terms which are used to describe ‘document legalisation’. These include document attestation, authentication, stamping, verification and certification.
