United Arab Emirates
- Method
- Consular chain
- Last reviewed
- Source
- www.hcch.net
This page is a general overview of the corridor. The exact course of legalisation depends on the document: some stages, such as the DVV or notary certification, apply only to some documents. We confirm the document-specific stages after reviewing the document, before quoting.
Check these before ordering
The UAE prices documents in two classes, and the embassy fee for the commercial class is more than thirteen times the other. The classification follows the content of the document, not its title: a power of attorney with commercial content is a commercial document.
Tell us in your quote request what the document covers. If the class is unclear, we confirm the price after reviewing the document.
Documents the customer printed themselves from the DVV e-service cannot be legalised. Typically birth and marriage certificates and register extracts.
Order a paper original from the DVV before starting the chain. This adds lead time, not authority fees.
Universities' electronically verifiable certificates cannot be legalised. These are exactly what recent graduates hold.
The job runs on a notary-certified paper copy instead. Tell us in your quote request whether your certificate is electronically verifiable.
The document must carry the official's original handwritten signature AND printed name. Without both it is not legalised.
Steps and authority fees
Below are the fees charged by states. They are passed through at cost. Our standard service fee is EUR 100. Where a country package applies, the package price is confirmed separately.
This route has not been verified against a source yet, so we do not publish its fees. Ask for a quote and we will confirm the amounts with the authority before starting.
01 Original documentNote: an apostille is NOT sufficient, the UAE requires full consular legalisation | You provide |
02 DVV / notary certificationDigital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV) Whether this step applies is decided by who issued the document (the Finnish MFA's own split): university, chamber-of-commerce and authorised-translator documents go straight to the MFA; private, company, AMK, vocational, upper-secondary and comprehensive-school documents need the notary first. Not always needed | confirmed in advance |
03 Finnish MFA legalisationMinistry for Foreign Affairs of Finland | confirmed in advance |
04 Embassy attestation (Helsinki)UAE Embassy, Helsinki The tariff is collected at the MOFAIC service point in Helsinki, in dirhams. The service point adds its own handling charge and VAT on top, and the card terminal's euro conversion (DCC) adds its own margin: pay in dirhams. | confirmed in advance |
05 Destination MOFA attestationUAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) Performed in the destination country Done in the destination country | confirmed in advance |
Quantity does not scale the price. Some fees are charged per signature and some per document, so the same bundle costs a different amount depending on how many signatures the documents carry.
Service boundary: stages performed in the destination country are not part of our service unless separately agreed. They are marked in the chain.