MikeK
- 2014-09-21
The process is complicated if you are overseas and wil probably end up expensive too.
I'm thinking that any UK Embassy can do the Notarising and then you have to courier stuff to the FCO in UK
https://www.gov.uk/government/world/organisations/british-consulate-general-hong-kong
A tip... After some mumbo jumbo, my Notary put his Notary stamp and embossment thing on one Notary certficate and attached all the other documents to the Notary Certificate into a kind of booklet with green tape and foldy corner thing. This cost £100 excluding travel costs to the guy, if I had every document notarised then it would have cost £600.....
Then it's couriered to the UK's FCO and I only paid one Apostille fee of £30 plus the courier fee for delivery to FCO and return back from the FCO to me - the whole episode took one week (ish).
THE FCO apostille is verfiable https://www.gov.uk/verify-apostille which cuts out any accidental leakage of your documents from a school or any recruitor to the Onanist Printing Company of no fixed abode.
Of course it's best to check what is accepted by a country's Ministry of Exploited ESOL Labor for a work permit and whether there is any "coffee money" requirement.
Concerned Teacher
- 2014-09-21
Taiwan requires that as does South Korea. Perhaps Japan too.
I tried to get mine apostilled here in hong kong for going to Taiwan, they told me to go to the Taiwanese office or council building in London.
MikeK
- 2014-09-20
And where do the printers get their copies of real degrees and real certificates from?
And then why do these printers produce fake degrees and fake certificates with flaws like the wrong type font for the graduates name and print on paper with in incorrect paper weight?
It wouldn't surprise me if the printers get them from all the fake training centres.
Only way forward in my opinion is for reputable schools to require all qualifications notarized and apostilled. I doesn't cost much - I've just had all mine done for Ethiopia.