HomeSalary Certificate Attestation for Saudi Arabia

Service Description

Attestation of salary certificates is to accord them legal validity for the proof of income availed by customers landing in Saudi Arabia. The service covers multiple levels of verification and attestation by both authorities in your country and later in Saudi Arabia.

To initiate the salary certificate attestation process for Saudi Arabia, you require the following documents for attestation:

• Original Salary Certificate: This is the key document, which includes details about your salary amount, the status of your employment, etc. and has to be obtained from your employer.

• Passport Copy: Clear photocopy of your passport, especially its first and last page, for identity verification.
• Authorization Letter: If, in any case, you do not process the attestation yourself, you are required to provide an authorization letter in the name of your representative.
• Application Form: An application form duly completed and signed, as provided by any attesting service or the concerned authority.
• Additional Identification: Additional forms of identification, under the requirement of the issuing country, such as a National ID Card or Residence Permit are quite common.
• Proof of Employment: Additional documents that should accompany a salary certificate are an employment contract or an official letter from the employer mentioning your employment status.
• Passport-size Photographs: Recent passport-sized photographs of the certificate holder, and probably the representative, handling the process.

Major steps involved in the salary certificate attestation Process

• Employer Verification: The certificate showing your salary details has to go through your employer’s verification to prove that it is genuine. This step checks whether the document is real and sufficiently correctly endorsed by an authorized entity within the company.
• Notary Public Attestation: After the verification by the employer, a notary public must notarize the Salary certificate. This serves as a first check to verify the authenticity of the document before it is submitted to higher authorities.
• Attestation by the Home Department or Regional Authentication Center in the home country: The attestation of the document is also done by getting the document notarized by the State Home Department(SHD) or the Regional Authentication Center of the home country. This part is mandatory for the Ministry of External Affairs attestation.
• Embassy Attestation: It is produced before the Embassy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia or one of its Consulates in your home country. This is mainly to have an official acknowledgement from the Saudi authorities.
• MOFA Attestation in Saudi Arabia: Once the document is in Saudi Arabia, it is further to be attested by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA). After this stage, it will be considered as an authenticated document for use inside Saudi Arabia.
• Apostille Attestation (if applicable): If your home country is a signatory to the Hague Apostille Convention, some of the steps mentioned above may be substituted with Apostille attestation. In simple terms, this is an Apostille stamp placed on the document that will make the process of attestation easier and quicker, making the document valid for use in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.