المحتوى التفصيلي لهذه الصفحة متوفر حالياً باللغة الإنجليزية.
USA resident who intends to settle in Dubai, invest in properties, pursues their education, etc. shall have their documents attested duly to meet these goals. Most of a person’s certificates would typically need to be certified to be validated if they were moving from the USA to the UAE. Almost every document requires a different attestation procedure, which may vary depending on the regulations set forth by the consulate concerned. The location where you wish to use the certificate is also crucial in this case.
Wordcraft provides personal, educational, and commercial document attestation services for documents issued from the USA. The USA Certificate Attestation in UAE goes through hectic attestation steps, and only a highly professional agency can successfully deal with this type of attestation.
Wordcraft provides the best USA Certificate Attestation in UAE and provides fast, secure, confidential, 24/7 customer services and reasonable prices.
Procedures for USA certificate Attestation In UAE Involved:
1. Notarization in the USA (where required).
2. Authentication by the county/state (Secretary of State).
3. Authentication by the US Department of State.
4. Legalization by the UAE Embassy in Washington, D.C., which now completes the UAE MOFA attestation digitally in the same step.
5. No separate Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) attestation in the UAE in most cases — we confirm the route in your free quote.
| Personal Documents | Commercial documents |
|---|---|
| USA Marriage Certificate | USA Power of Attorney |
| USA Birth Certificate | USA company articles of incorporation |
| USA Divorce | USA commercial invoices |
| USA Degree Certificate | USA company board resolution |
| USA Diploma Certificate | USA commercial agreements |
| USA School Certificate | |
| USA College Certificate | |
| USA Death Certificate |
Documents You Need
- The original US-issued certificate or document (not a copy)
- A copy of the certificate holder's passport
- For educational certificates: the transcripts or mark sheets, if the issuing authority or your employer asks for them
- A copy of your UAE visa or Emirates ID, if you are a resident
- A signed authorisation letter, if Wordcraft handles the home-country and embassy steps for you
Who Needs This Service
US nationals and anyone who studied, married or registered a company in the United States need those documents attested before using them in the UAE. Typical cases:
- Employment and residence visas — especially for professional job titles
- Family sponsorship (marriage and birth certificates)
- School and university admission and certificate equivalency
- Professional licensing with health, education and engineering authorities
- Property, banking, inheritance and court matters
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need to be in the home country for the first steps?
No. We coordinate the home-country and embassy steps through our network while you stay in the UAE; you only hand over the original and a passport copy.
Does the document also need an Arabic translation?
Often, yes — UAE authorities usually require a certified Arabic legal translation of documents issued in other languages. We confirm this with the receiving authority and can do it in-house.
Is the attestation valid for every UAE authority?
Once the UAE MOFA attestation is complete — for most documents issued abroad it is now done digitally by the UAE embassy in the issuing country — the document can be used across the emirates. Some authorities also ask for an Arabic translation, which we check before submission.
USA Route: County or State (Secretary of State), US Department of State, then the UAE Embassy in Washington
Which US route your document takes depends first on who issued it: a state or county office, or the federal government.
| Document type | Examples | Route for UAE use |
|---|---|---|
| State or county document | University degree and transcript, birth and marriage certificates, notarized affidavits and powers of attorney | Notary or certified copy (county clerk certification in some states), then the Secretary of State of the issuing state, then the US Department of State, then the UAE Embassy in Washington, D.C. |
| Federal document | FBI background check, documents issued by federal agencies | Directly to the US Department of State, then the UAE Embassy in Washington, D.C. |
The Department of State step is required because the UAE is not an apostille country, so a state apostille alone is not enough. The UAE Embassy then legalizes the document and includes the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) attestation digitally, which means no separate MOFA step once the document is in the UAE in most cases. We confirm the exact steps for your state and document in the free quote. More on the embassy's digital step: UAE Embassy attestation; on the UAE side: MOFA attestation.
Tell Us the Issuing State First
Fifty states means fifty Secretary of State offices, each with its own requirements for notarization and certified copies. That is why we ask for the issuing state together with the photo of your document on WhatsApp: it lets us map the county, state and federal steps and send an accurate written quote within 10–30 minutes.
The original can be couriered from the USA or handed in at any of our four UAE offices. We coordinate the chain through to the UAE Embassy, you follow it online, and if the UAE authority needs Arabic our MOJ-certified legal translators translate the attested document before it is delivered to your door or our office. All the countries we handle are listed on our attestation services page.
Last updated: September 2026
