How To Attest Documents At Saudi Arabia Embassy In Nigeria

For Nigerians seeking to work or study in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, attestation or legalization of your educational certificates is something you can not bypass. Attestation or legalization of your documents is just a way through which your documents are properly verified to ascertain or confirm the authenticity. A well detailed article which will explain everything you need to know about document attestation in Nigeria was written in the past and every step highlighted in that article is still relevant till date, do yourself a favour to check it out since I will be discussing how to legalize your documents at the Saudi Arabia embassy in this article.

• Educational certificates (attested at the two ministries)

• An eligibility letter

• Data page of international passport

• Passport photograph

• Employment letter/ Request from your company to legalize your documents

• Admission letter in the case of a student going on admission

To legalize educational documents or certificates at the Saudi Arabian embassy, the applicant must first attest the documents at the ministry of education. Once the attestation of the educational documents are done at this ministry, you will have to apply for an eligibility letter from the ministry of education (this letter takes a week to be processed by the ministry of education). Once the eligibility letter is out, you will proceed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to legalize both your educational certificates and the eligibility letter.

When these two stages have been completed, you then proceed to the Saudi Arabia embassy to finalize the attestation process. You will have to provide your the scanned copy of your international passport's data with your passport photograph as attachment to other copies of the documents you want to attest. In addition to that, you will print out your admission letter which was sent to you by the school and attach to the documents to be submitted at the Saudi Arabian embassy for legalization.

If you are legalizing or attesting your documents at the Saudi Arabian embassy in Nigeria for employment purpose in Saudi Arabia, then after you must have finished with the authentication and eligibility letter from the ministry of education and foreign affairs, you will have to add your datapage, employment letter, passport photograph and a letter or an e-mail from your employer, requesting you to legalize your documents.

All these points stated are very important as the embassy of Saudi Arabia will not accept your documents for attestation unless you have these highlighted documents complete.

Payment for attestation at the embassy of Saudi Arabia in Nigeria is solely done online and it is my advise that you first present the documents at the embassy of Saudi Arabia when you are done with them at the two ministries before proceeding for payment through their website. If you make payments ahead of presenting the documents to them at the embassy and they have any reason to reject it, just know that your money is gone. Be notified that payment through their website is non-refundable and if you are not  very familiar with the interface, you can lose your money while you are trying to make payment. It is in your own best interest to use the service of an agent especially when it gets to this level so you don't make mistakes.

If everything checks out fine, your documents should be ready for collection in a week after submission to the embassy of the Saudi Arabia. 

In summary, things needed for legalization at the embassy of Saudi Arabia includes the following:

Attestation for documents to be used in Saudi Arabia from Nigeria can take two weeks to be completed so if you are coming from outside Abuja, you should be prepared to stay for more than a week for the whole process.  

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