MOFA Attestation (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
تصديق وزارة الخارجية
MOFA — the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs, previously known as MOFAIC — is the federal ministry whose attestation stamp makes foreign documents usable in the UAE and UAE documents usable abroad. A degree certificate, marriage certificate, power of attorney or commercial document issued overseas must typically be attested in its home country, then by the UAE embassy there, and finally by MOFA in the UAE before any government department, court or employer will accept it. The reverse chain applies to UAE documents heading abroad. You meet MOFA attestation when starting a job (degree attestation), sponsoring a spouse (marriage certificate), registering a company with foreign corporate documents, or litigating with foreign evidence. Lawyers build attestation time and cost into almost every cross-border matter.
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وزارة الخارجية الإماراتية هي الجهة الاتحادية التي يجعل تصديقها المستندات الأجنبية صالحة للاستخدام داخل الدولة والمستندات الإماراتية صالحة للاستخدام في الخارج. فالشهادة الجامعية أو عقد الزواج أو الوكالة الصادرة خارج الدولة يجب عادةً تصديقها في بلد الإصدار ثم لدى سفارة الإمارات هناك وأخيراً لدى وزارة الخارجية داخل الدولة قبل أن تقبلها أي جهة حكومية أو محكمة. تصادف هذا التصديق عند التوظيف وكفالة الزوجة وتأسيس الشركات بمستندات أجنبية وتقديم أدلة أجنبية في الدعاوى، ويُدرجه المحامون ضمن تكاليف كل معاملة عابرة للحدود.
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