With A-level results having been released just a short while back, increasingly many students choose to carry on their further education and University undergraduate studies abroad.
A Notary Public may be needed to assist in the application process for overseas study.
The overseas University is likely to ask you to produce copies of GCSE and A-level course certificates verified/ certified by a Notary Public as well as other types of notarised documents.
Here at our Notary Public offices we are well versed with such requests and our Notary Public has assisted many students over the years with such requests.
Contact Veninder Dhariwal – Notary Public on 01628 617623 for more assistance or email at vkd@sloughnotary.co.uk
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Wishing all Notary Public clients a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year
I would like to wish all Notary Public clients a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
I look forward to assisting with your Notary Public requirements in 2018.
I will continue to monitor Notary Public enquiries during the holiday period. It is best to drop me an email to vkd@sloughnotary.co.uk and I will assist with all Notary Public requests in the holiday period whenever possible.
INDIA INDIA INDIA……FORMS!!!
I often get asked for sample forms for India related matters. Common ones are sponsorship declarations to sponsor visitors and change of name affidavits. I attach sample precedents here for clients to download and complete. Once completed (but not signed) you should contact me for an appointment on vkd@sloughnotary.co.uk or 01628 617623.
To extract the document – save the document you require as an image and then print it….. If you are having difficulty, email me and I will forward it to you; but please try saving it in the first instance.
NOTARY – NIE Spain
A NIE Number is a tax identification number used in Spain. Prior to purchasing a property, selling a property, obtaining a mortgage, starting up a business or working in Spain, it is a requirement by law that every individual possesses an NIE Number. The NIE Number is issued by the Spanish National Police and is printed out on a piece of paper; this is then also often used as a form of identity. A NIE card the size of a credit card is also given to you. Once you have been issued an NIE number, it is yours for life. If you are in the UK and cannot visit Spain to obtain your NIE number in person, it is likely that you may need the help of a UK Notary to obtain one.
SOUTH AFRICA tightens up child travel consent requirements
Since 1st June 2015 South Africa has tightened up its requirements for children travelling without their parents or with only 1 parent. Anyone travelling this summer should review the travel requirements to save disappointment; indeed when I have myself been at the airport checking in to go elsewhere I have seen people prevented from boarding their flights destined for South Africa due to lack of paperwork.
Where both parents are travelling with children (under 18) they will be asked to show the child’s full unabridged birth certificate. The abridged (short) birth certificate which only lists the child’s particulars won’t be accepted. The South African Department of Home Affairs are not accepting uncertified copies of birth certificates or copies of the parents/guardians identification.
There are additional requirements if the child is travelling with only one parent, with neither biological parent, or unaccompanied. One of the requirements (depending on the travel arrangements) may be to get an Affidavit of consent to travel signed by the non travelling parent; this should be presented before a Notary Public. Further guidance is set out here: http://southafricahouseuk.com/documents/childtravel19jun2015.pdf
TO APOSTILLE OR NOT TO APOSTILLE….
On 9th June 2016 the European Parliament adopted a Regulation to do away with the obligation to insist on the requirement of obtaining an Apostille for certain categories of ‘Public documents’ issued in EU Member states when a citizen of an EU country presents such ‘Public documents’ in another EU country outside of the issuing EU country. The Regulation also makes changes as regards the necessity of obtaining translations for certain ‘Public documents.’
The Regulation was aimed at reducing costs, time and bureaucracy for EU citizens when transacting across EU countries.
Given the UK’s recent referendum result to discontinue EU membership, it remains to be seen how this Regulation will impact UK citizens when and in the event that ‘Brexit’ is implemented.
It is understood that the types of ‘Public documents’ this Regulation will apply to include the following:
A public document issued by the authorities of a Member State that evidences or establishes one or more of the following facts (Art. 2(1) of the Regulation):
• birth
• a person being alive
• death
• name
• marriage, including capacity to marry and marital status
• divorce, legal separation or marriage annulment
• registered partnership, including capacity to enter into a registered partnership and registered partnership status
• dissolution of a registered partnership, legal separation or annulment of a registered partnership
• parenthood
• adoption
• domicile and/or residence
• nationality
• absence of a criminal record and
• the right to vote and stand as a candidate in municipal elections and elections to the European Parliament
As regards translations, the Regulation also does away with the need for translations of certain public documents e.g. birth certificates, marriage certificates and death certificates, etc. As regards translations, an EU country where a public document is presented cannot insist that the document be translated if the public document is in one of the official languages of the Union country or in another non-official language that the Union country can accept. Further the Regulation introduces multilingual standard forms. These forms will be in all Union languages and can be used by citizens in another Union country as translation aids attached to their public document. Accordingly in this way citizens can avoid translation requirements.
The Regulation has passed in to EU law but it will take time to be fully implemented. The Regulation gives Member States around two years to implement the necessary steps for the issuance of multilingual standard forms.
Regulation name: Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on promoting the free movement of citizens by simplifying the requirements for presenting certain public documents in the European Union and amending Regulation (EU) No 1024/2012