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HRD Attestation Services
Welcome to Apostille Attest, a subsidiary of AR International, your trusted partner for HRD Attestation services in India. For more than 3 decades, we specialize in making the document verification process easy for you while ensuring that your educational certificates meet the required standards effortlessly and efficiently for international use.
What is HRD attestation?
HRD attestation is the authentication of educational documents from the Human Resource Development (HRD) department of the respective state government in India. It is required for educational documents like degrees, diplomas, or certificates when they need to be used for employment, higher studies, or immigration purposes in foreign countries. State officials first check the documents then the HRD Ministry attests them confirming they’re real. While the basic process is the same across India, each state might have its own specific rules and steps.
Why is HRD Attestation Needed?
There are quite a number of reasons that make the HRD attestation an apparent process. These purposes are related to educational documents intended for use abroad. Here are some major highlights on why one should undergo HRD attestation:
Apostille Process: HRD attestation is the first step in the apostille process, which is necessary for documents to be legally recognized in foreign countries.
For Admission into Foreign Universities: Most universities outside India needs HRD attested copies of documents to cross verify educational qualification before you get admission.
For Work Visa: HRD attestation is often mandatory when applying for work visas, especially in countries like the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait, to confirm that your educational documents are genuine.
Legalizing Educational Documents: HRD attestation ensures that the documents are verified as authentic by the relevant state authorities, thus validating their legitimacy for use in foreign countries.
What is the Procedure of HRD Attestation?
HRD Attestation process includes multiple steps to verify and authenticate your educational documents:
Document Verification by the Educational Institution: Firstly, the surety that educational documents (degrees, diplomas or certificates etc.) issued from the institution are genuine. It is generally done through the registrar or administrative offices of the institution.
Attestation by the State Home Department: Once verified, these documents are attested by State Home Department (or concern authority for foreign learners), which acts as a confirmation of the document being authentic at a state level.
HRD Department Attestation: The next step is to get the documents to the HRD Ministry (Ministry of Human Resource Development) of state in which educational institution exists. HRD Ministry verifies the documents and gets attested with its official stamp and signature. The type of certificate and the issuing authority decides whether the documents should be attested by state HRD or central HRD.
Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Attestation: After HRD attestation, the documents may need to be further legalized by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) or the Indian Embassy in the destination country. This is especially necessary if the document will be used for visa processing, employment, or higher education abroad.
What are the documents can be attested from HRD?
The following educational documents can be attested by the HRD (Human Resource Development) department:
- Degree Certificates
- Diplomas Certificate
- Nursing Certificate
- Mark Sheets
- Migration Certificates
- Engineering Certificate
- Pharmacy Certificate
- Provisional Certificates
- Transfer Certificates
How to get HRD Attestation?
Apostille Attest, a subsidiary of AR International, has been a trusted leader in apostille services in Delhi and HRD attestation for over three decades.
Here is the process of HRD Attestation –
- Candidate Needs to Approach State Home Department and request for HRD Attestation on their Educational documents such as Degree Certificate, Diploma Certificate etc. They need to Write an Application for this.
- State HRD will then write to the University to Verify the document and issue a Verification or Genuine Report.
- University will ask the candidate to deposit University Council Fee and Will Start the Verification process. Some Universities have many colleges affiliated to them so they might ask the college for verification if the candidate has attended any college. e.g. If someone has attended St. Xavier’s College in Mumbai then University of Mumbai will ask the St. Xavier college to submit a report.
- After completing the verification, the University will send the Verification report to the state department.
- If the State HRD will find a genuine document based on a University report then they will put a Stamp on the document which must have “AUTHENTICATED” on the stamp.
This can be a very cumbersome, tedious and overwhelming process for a lot of people. They need to spend a lot of time on this. That’s where Apostille Attest comes into picture. Candidates can either courier the documents to any of our offices OR can visit and give it to our staff personally and we will handle everything after charging some nominal service fee.
Documents Required for HRD Attestation –
Each State and University has different requirement but here is the most common list –
- Original Degree
- . Two Photographs
- Passport Photocopy
- All Years/Semester Marksheet Copy
- Transcript or Consolidated Marksheet Copy
- Aadhar Card Copy
