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Verify Documents in India For Foreign Trip
How Can You Verify Documents in India For Foreign Trip?

How Can You Verify Documents in India For Foreign Trip?

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If you are still worried about how to verify your police clearance or birth certificate, keep them all aside. You can easily do this and get off all hurdles that cap put your foreign trip or visit on halt.

Here, we are going to share everything about how to get your certificates apostilled in India. Let’s get started with a short brief about it.

Apostille

It is a prominent authority that can sign all papers that you need to get attested for immigration. You can take it as an attestation service. It is available in the Hague Convention countries only. Nobody knew about it before 1961, as it was not convened. When multiple times authentication of visa, passport, birth certificate, transcripts or other immigration papers looked difficult to carry on, the intellects from various countries had set its foundation on 25th October, 1980. As of now, 101 countries are its member.

The greatness of this service lies in its global acceptance. The legalisation conducted by one member country is accepted by another one, which is a part of this convention.

What kind of certificates does it legalise?

It mainly verifies personal documents, which can be a birth certificate, death certificate, marriage certificate, educational degree or mark sheet etc..

You cannot give duplicates of the aforesaid papers to go abroad for any reason. It is put on the originals. Besides, you should enclose the first and the last page copy of your passport.

One thing that you should always keep into account is that the Ministry of External Affairs has designated a few agencies with this task, which acts as an NRI consultant to get you through the typicality of this process. You should be extra careful from the fraudulent, which makes you a fool by taking money, but does not do anything. So, always ask about their experience and check their authenticity through their ratings on Google Maps & feedbacks, at least. Or, you can counter them with questions about how they do and who have considered them before.

Who does apostille certificate?

The designated signatory can be any of these Class I Gazetted Officers:

  • Director
  • Magistrate
  • Deputy Director
  • Section Officer
  • Commissioner
  • Chief Secretary
  • Joint Secretary
  • Assistant Secretary
  • Deputy Commissioner
  • Resident Commissioner
  • Sub Divisional Magistrate

Do you need to go for any other attestation before?

Yes, you may need to get your papers stamped from the state’s HRD. It would verify and check if all your papers for immigration are original. Thereafter, you should go to the notary public with the same request.

As I said, you ‘MAY’ need to go there, it is not compulsory. You can skip going there and catch up with an experienced NRI consultant to directly legalise your papers from the MEA.

About Fee

The verification from the state HRD or the MEA, both, is a paid service. However, both ministries charge minimally, which means you need to pay a nominal fee for it.

Timeline

Since it is about examining your documents if they are not fake, the competent authorities sluggishly do this. The reason might be that the ministries go deep with examination of their legality, which can be time taking.

All in all, the state government may take one or two working days. But, the MEA’s processing could be long. It may complete the whole processing in 3 to 4 weeks.

DS-160
Guide to Know About DS 160 Form For Visa Application

Guide to Know About DS 160 Form For Visa Application

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What is a Non-Immigration Visa?

A person who lives temporarily in the US is a non-immigrant. Plainly speaking, the one might reside in the US for fulfilling the purpose of employment or medical treatment or business or temporary work/study. He would require a non-immigrant visa. It is provided to the non-natives of that country.

You can’t fulfil immigration dreams unless you have a legal permit to live there. It can be procured through a non-immigrant visa, let’s say H1B Visa. But, this is not the only one option you can have to settle there for a few years. Your employer files petition for seeking this visa on your behalf. In the meantime, you undergo several ordeals to get it.

Filling DS 160 Form is also a part of that visa formality. Let’s catch on why it’s essential; how much safe it is and how you can fill this form on the internet.

What is a DS 160 form?    

As aforesaid, it’s an electronically available application form. You will have to submit it to the Department of the State. If you look into its layout, it would take a wink to estimate what and why you need to fill it.

Simply telling, it’s a kind of an e-Portfolio wherein you fill the necessary information about yourself. The ultimate motto of seeking this biography is to collect pan information and to send it to the US immigration authority (USCIS). It’s mandatory to fill prior to the visa interview. Once you submit it, the consular officers gain an easy access about you. Thereby, examining whether or not you’re eligible to get the non-immigrant visa becomes a walkover for them.

What are the benefits of DS 160 form?

  1. It provides with an interactive help that doesn’t need any mediator.
  2. In place of Forms DS-156, DS-156K, DS-156V, DS-157, DS-158 and DS-3032, just one form (i.e. DS 160) is to be filled.
  3. As far as privacy is concerned, the consulate officer comes across your information through electronic mode. Thereby, your data remains confidential with him.
  4. If you have filled it flawlessly and accurately, the visa processing won’t take a long. Rather, the officer would gain efficiency in processing your visa application. He would know about you before the screening during an interview. Hence, the delay in the visa processing can be averted.
  5. Since you have the access to this form on the internet, you can easily edit it to serve the accurate details. If you want to edit or revise it the first time, you can do it remotely anytime, as per convenience and requirement.

Where does this form’s information store?

When you fill it online, your data straightly get stored in the robust storage architecture of the Department of State (DoS).

A few years ago, this facility was partially available on the internet. The applicant had to take out its hard copy. Subsequently, he had to visit the consular office in person to submit it. The erstwhile security was based on the barcode scanning. The form consisted of certain code in the form of bars. The officer used to scan it to enter the filled data into the database of the DoS. Thereby, they skip the start to end process of filling and re-filling your information into their database.

Also, you used to go for the interview with the A to Z papers, confirmation sheet and other relevant information in regard of the visa.

How can you skip filling this form?

If you want an employment visa, you will be split into the category of E-2 visa applicants. Then, the DS-160 form is a must. But, if you are a treaty trader or an executive/manager/ crucial employee, your employer will have to fill DS-156E form. When the immigration officer issues DS-161, no other form would be required.

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