The MOFA attestation fee for personal and educational certificates, whether issued in the UAE or outside the UAE, will be AED 150 for each document, plus courier fees.

Well, they involve verifying, authenticating, and obtaining necessary approvals and clearances for different types of documents. These services are typically provided by professionals who specialize in navigating the legal, administrative, and bureaucratic procedures involved in document processing.

In UAE, true copy attestations of personal documents are generally done by lawyers, notary public or different authorities that issued the document. For instance, as for company documents (license, share certificate, commercial registry etc.), authorities that issued the document can certify their true copy.

The clearance process requires a satisfactory background investigation. Documents and other information must be properly marked “by the author” with one of several (hierarchical) levels of sensitivity—e.g. restricted, confidential, secret, and top secret.