Relevance of certificate attestation services?

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• Relevance of certificate attestation services?

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• If you are conversant with immigration, work
  visa, study visa or permanent residency visa, you
  will be well-aware of the certificate attestation
  services. Whenever you move out of the country
  for a longer duration like when you wish to
  relocate to another country or go for your higher
  studies to a foreign land, it is compulsory for
  you to get your certificates attested.
• Which certificates need to be attested?
• Starting from your personal documents that
  include your birth certificate, medical
  certificate, marriage certificate, divorce
  certificate, adoption certificate, your job
  experience certificate and more to your
  education certificates like degree, doctors,
  graduation etc. need to go for certificate
  attestation in India.
• Why is it needed?
• This is internationally the accepted norm that
  when people move from one country to another,
  they need to get their essential documents
  signed, stamped and attested by approved
  officials and departments form their country of
  origin. Certificate attestation services is the
  way to validate the information presented on the
  documents. It makes the information legal and
  true so that the government of the country where
  you plan to move is able to accept the same as a
  proof or evidence.

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• Certificate attestation in India is a multiple
  step process. Your original documents need to be
  submitted for getting papers attested. It starts
  with the local notary officers they are
  approved by the government for notarization work.
  They stamp and sign you papers after which the
  documents move to three different state-level
  bodies personal documents go the HRD of the
  state, educational documents go to the Education
  department and the commercial documents are
  attested by the Chamber of commerce in the state.
  Once done, all the documents are submitted to the
  Ministry of External Affairs for final
  attestation.
• Depending upon the country that you wish to go
  to, the documents will then get attested by the
  Embassy of the particular country.