Spain Certificate Attestation Procedure

Spain is a highly developed country in the world, they provide various kinds of certificates to its resident peoples and also for immigrant persons to certify certain facts or truth. Spain government issued certificate have a great value whole over the world. To apply those certificates outside the Spain territory the certificate holder should face some legal procedures required by the destination country. Those legal proceedings commonly known as Attestation and Apostille. These two are certificate authentication procedures, which will legally authenticate your document in the destination country. Attestation and Apostille are two legal verification process, in which a designated authority will check that the given document is issued from the trustful authority. But Apostille is compulsory only in Hague convention country’s. In every country embassy is the mandatory authority of issuing attestation and Apostille. They issue attestation or Apostille with their official seal or signature.

1. Educational certificates

• Degree certificates.
• Diploma certificates.
• SSLC certificates.
• HSC certificates.

2. Non educational certificates

• Birth certificate.
• Marriage certificate.
• Experience certificate.
• Divorce certificate.
• Transfer certificate.
• Death certificate.
• Migration certificate.
• Medical certificates.

3. Commercial certificates

• Power of Attorney.
• Certificate of Incorporation.
• Trade license.
• Invoice.
• Certificate of Registration.

These procedures authenticate your document in the destination country, which will make your document more genuine and trustful in front of the destination country’s officials. These legal procedures has a certain validity, after that it will expire, but in some countries it has unlimited validity. Spain government issue commercial certificates mainly for international trade purposes and business purposes, but to use those certificates outside the country the applicant should take attestation from the destination country’s embassy or consulate. Attested documents are applicable in every field.

Some general purposes of certificate attestation are…

• To obtain higher study from a foreign university, you should take educational certificate attestation from the concerned country’s embassy to prove your educational level.
• For residence visa or family visa purposes, we should attest required non educational document like Marriage certificate, Migration certificate, etc.
• For job/ employment purposes, you should submit an attested educational certificate to prove your educational qualification.
• For school admission purposes of your child, you should submit an attested birth certificate of your child in the destination country.
• To get right to sell properties you should take an attestation for concerned document such as a power of attorney.
• To get equivalent certificates
• For company registration, you should attest the required commercial certificate.
• Educational certificate is needed for writing MOH (Ministry of Health) and DOH (Dept. Of Health) examinations by doctors, nurses, pharmacists, laboratory, technicians, etc.