Education Certificates

Degree certificates and other educational documents require a specific process for attestation. You must pass the document(s) to the Saudi Arabian Cultural Bureau in London (SACB) BEFORE they can be sent to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) to be apostilled. The Cultural Bureau will attempt to make contact with the issuer of your educational document to validate it's authenticity. Vital Consular can send your documents to the FCDO, but you must submit your document to the SACB yourself before bringing it to us.

Once you send your SACB-verified document to us, (along with the original copy of the document and a copy of your passport) we will have it certified by a solicitor and send it to the FCDO on your behalf.

To speed up the time taken to attest your qualification, you are advised to contact the registrar who issued the document to ask them to respond quickly to this request. The order will not go any further until this validation process has been completed and so it is in your best interests to contact them. Regrettably, due to the Data Protection Act, we are unable to contact your qualification provider on your behalf.

Due to the above process, the time taken to attest an educational qualification will vary. It is not uncommon for this to take several months so please allow sufficient time to process your attestation application. Once you have received the documents back from the SACB you can then send them to us for FCDO.

Please note: We are unable to assist with the SACB process and cannot answer any questions about your application with them. We can only fulfill the steps regarding the FCDO.

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