What are the General Instructions for Certification?

What are the General Instructions for Certification? 

A certified document is one that has been signed and dated by a professional person or organization (e.g. solicitor, translation company) as a true copy or translation of the original.

Who can certify a document?

Your document must be certified by a professional person or someone well-respected in your community (‘of good standing’). You could ask the following if they offer this service:

· Lawyer/Solicitor/Barrister;

· Bank manager or official;

· Notary;

· Chartered accountant;

· Organization or authority that issued your original document;

· JOP(Justice of the Peace)/Magistrate

The person you ask should not be: 

· Related to you

· Living at the same address

· In a relationship with you

How to certify a document?

Take the photocopied document and the original and ask the person to certify the copy by: 

· Write ‘Certified to be a true copy/translation of the original seen by me’ on the document

· For photographic identity document(s) write “it is true likeness of the individual” on the document

· Sign and date the document

· Print their name under the signature

· Add their occupation, address (including country) and telephone number