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How to Get a Transcript from Any School or University?

September 9, 2021 Manoj Sodhani Comments 0 Comment

Whether you are a job candidate or applying to a different school, you need to know proper channels to navigate for a college or school transcripts.

What is Transcript?

The transcript is a student’s academic record, carrying details of his academic history including grades, courses completed and whether completed or not the degree course. There may have some additional information, such as academic probation period, honour code violations and awards or certifications for the school or college performance.

The piece of paper stating all of these details can help you to transfer credits from one school or university to another. Your academic performance can be easily verified through it.

But, the real struggle begins when you want to get it.

Let’s get through what it carries and how you can get it.

What does the school/college transcript read?

As it carries a detailed summary of your academic history, the transcript can have:

A list of all courses & scores/grades you’ve taken
A list of dates attended school/college and majors
Grade point average of each semester
Student information, including your full name, date of birth, and student identification number
A list of other schools you attended, as well as transfer credits you received from those schools
Official documentation containing a seal, signature from the registrar’s office

Considering how to get your transcripts for free, it is possible in the case of unofficial transcripts, which are available over the internet. Typically, you need to pay a fee for official transcripts. The official is the one that directly comes from the school or college registrar.

All What You Need to Get for a Transcript

Office of the registrar
Personal information of the student
A computer with the internet access
Fee

Steps to Get it

Locate the registrar of your former school or university over the internet, which is responsible for students’ records and transcripts.
Search for the specific department that you were from, as graduate or undergraduate department.
Collect your personal information, as it requires your full name, address, phone number, your social security number or student ID, your graduation or undergrad year, date of attendance, your signature, the number of copies you need together with the name and address of the transcript recipient.
Download the form to fill it up for putting your request in writing. Send it via a certified mail to the registrar’s office.
The school or college may reject your request for the transcript if you owe money of it or have some outstanding dues.
Check your college or school website to find out if or not it will accept an electronic request.
If it accepts, the online transcript application may require you to prove your identity. Provide the needful detail and go ahead with the procedure.
Lastly, get ready to pay for processing and mailing expenses. Generally, it does not cost you much. But yes, it varies by every college or school.
Wait for your transcript to arrive at your address.
Your school/college size, location and method of requesting it, the process may take a fortnight or a month.

Unofficial Transcripts Are Not Acceptable

Most of the colleges or schools won’t accept an unofficial copy, which can be accessed from the account of the candidate over the website. There may have a chance that it is incomplete. So, you need to get an official version of it.

Transcript to Apply to College/ School

There are instances of admissions or readmissions in various courses. Students wonder if or not they need this document.

The truth is that it is necessary. Your all credits or grades have to be credited to the course. So, it’s essential.

Check Once You Receive It before Admission

Once you get it, the first thing that you need to do is to check some crucial details before admission. Here is what you should thoroughly search for:

Find the admissions office of your selected school for accessing the details about their transcript policy.
Cross check if it includes a list of each school you have previously attended, no matter how long ago or how briefly.
Raise a request with each school or college that you have attended. Fill up the form online and pay fee accordingly. Or, you may get the assistance from Services 2 NRI.
In case of the school which you need a transcript from is closed, contact the official office or authority that oversees higher education in your state. It can tell how to get a transcript.
Follow up with the school/college to ensure receiving each transcript.
Once you get it, meet with an academic consultant or advisor to discuss which classes will transfer. In some cases, you may have to request that your credit transfer or to appeal a denial of transfer credit.

Services 2 NRI is here to guide you on how you may get it smoothly and effortlessly in a minimal possible time.

How Can You Verify Documents in India For Foreign Trip?

February 26, 2020 Manoj Sodhani Comments 0 Comment

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 25^th 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.

Aadhaar Update_ Blue Card for Kids Under 5, No Biometrics (1)

Children Under 5 Years Get Blue Aadhaar Card in India

March 6, 2018 Manoj Sodhani Comments 0 Comment

Are you willing to enroll your kid’s name for the Aadhaar Card?

Its processing won’t involve the steps of registration that the teenagers & youths follow. The competent authority Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) published more than a couple of tweets in the month of February, 2018. All these tweets recite the updates regarding this card. These updates are basically meant for the tiny tots who are just five or below.

It’s a must to drill these updates in your head timely. You can get rid of glitches in the banking transactions, passport making and telecom services in the upcoming years.

What are the Aadhaar Updates for the kids below 5 years?

Blue Card for Under 5 Kids:

The UIDAI has tweeted a fresh update on its official Twitter account. It has introduced a ‘Baal Aadhaar Card’ for a particular age group. The kids who are upto 5 years of age will be segregated under this age-group.

What’s the requirement?

So far, the UIDAI has announced to mandatorily provide the child’s birth certificate. If the parents have not yet registered their wards birth, they must get it done shortly. Otherwise, their children would definitely face off hitches in the future. If the parents have any plan to migrate or become an NRI, it would be a helpful tool.

To name the second requirement, the competent authority has directed to append the parent’s Aadhaar card number. Either mother or father can provide this detail to the authority. That will be valid to authenticate the Aadhaar application of their ward.

Cheers! The kids’ biometric details are not necessary. It defines that there is no need to scan the iris and finger prints of your ward.

When to scan biometrics:

One more tweet reads the official twitter handle of the foretold authority. It cites that upto 5 years, no scanning of the iris and pupil will be required. But once the kids surpass that threshold of the 5 years of age, it’s a mandatory practice to come down to the nearby Aadhaar center for updating the card. The registry of biometric details fulfills this formality. The respective authority doesn’t charge a single penny for it.

Mandatory to upgrade the biometrics at 15 years of age:

The authority has mandated to upgrade the biometric details at 15 years of age. The parents along with their ward must visit the nearby UIDAI office with the supporting documents. It determines that the children when reached the threshold of 15, they have to scan their finger prints and iris again.

These facilities would cost no arm and a leg. It would be absolutely free government service.

What are the steps to get blue coloured Baal Aadhaar card?

Visit the UIDAI office. It must be located nearby your house.
Take its enrollment form from the office.
Fill it completely providing valid details of the kid’s birth and self’s Aadhaar number.
Mention the mobile number to be registered with the blue card.
Capture the picture of the kid. Except biometrics, the picture will be attached onto the form.
Attach the supporting documents as aforementioned. The child’s school Id from any recognized educational institution can be attached to the enrollment form.
Once all formalities will be fulfilled, you can get the acknowledgement slip from the office.
This slip would enable you to catch on the Aadhaar status updates online.
Subsequently, an SMS will be issued to notify the successful submission of the enrollment form. The message will flash on the registered number that would be registered in the form.
These formalities would reach their termination at the delivery of this card. The entire process would take at least 60 days. Thereafter, you can collect it either by post or manually. If you find it feasible, collect it online using the number mentioned on the acknowledgement slip.

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