Ministry of External Affairs(MEA) Attestation in India

ð  MEA is the authority that is responsible for the management of the foreign affairs of
India, which also authenticates the document issued from India.

ð  We have to get a stamp from the MEA for all types of documents during the process
of document legalization.

ð This central department deals with the external affairs i.e. anything related to
foreign countries

ð  This document legalization is the mandatory step for your documents to prove
genuineness.

USES OF MEA Attestation:

• Resident visa
• Student visa
•  Work visa
•  Performing business from a foreign country;
•  Employing candidates from foreign nations among others.
• Ministry of external affairs attestation for Saudi, turkey, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, etc. Is required on many educational and personal documents like birth certificate, marriage certificate, degree certificate, etc.

MEA Attestation Process:

• Regional level: certificate authenticity must be verified by the notary or the University from where the documents were issued, as per the requirement or from the Chamber of commerce in the case of commercial documents.
• State Attestation: It is performed by three different organizations as per the necessity of the document type. These departments are the State Home Department (SHD), Human Resource Department (HRD), and the Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM). SDM is independent of the state government, however, the verification performed by this authority is considered on the state level.
• MEA attestation: It is the last stage of authentication from the home government after which an MEA stamp or sticker is applied to the document.

MEA attestation for Educational Documents: First obtain Notary and HRD attestation, then only can proceed with MEA attestation.

MEA Attestation on Personal Document

• first need to get a Notary certificate by local authorities then Home Department verification is required for MEA legalization of Personal Documents.
• After these authentications, MEA provides a stamp on documents to go for further process of legalization by the embassy.
• There is an alternative process for Home Department authentication i.e. SDM authentication.

• 1. Notary
• 2. Home Department Certification-SDM
• 3. Ministry of External Affairs Authentication

As per Embassy requirement, where HRD is compulsory:

• University Verification
• HRD Attestation
• MEA Attestation

MEA Attestation for commercial documents:

• Chamber of commerce
• Ministry of External Affairs

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