Is declaration at Us embassy enough to satisfy Thai Immigration in Laksi?

[murphya33]

Ok, so the US embassy does not certify degrees. You can go along there and sign a statement that its real and they will stamp a copy of your degree for you. Has anyone with an American degree done this and then gone along to the Ministry in Laksi and gotten another stamp from there meaning that it has been accepted and approved by them? Also do you have to prepare your own statement for the US Embassy or they have one already?

[Suradit69]

I doubt they'd put an embassy stamp on a copy of your degree. If you make a separate written statement and want your signature (not the content of the statement) notarized, they would probably do that unless they believed the statement implied some certification on their part. But, as they say at their US Citizen Services website:

 

Better to have the university transcript office send a certified transcript of record indicating degree(s) earned directly to the person/office requesting it.

 

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U.S. Consular officers are not empowered to authenticate public documents issued in the United States. Such documents include vital records (birth, marriage, death, and divorce), as well as academic, commercial, or other credentials. Consular officers do not have access to the records of the issuing office or the seal of the custodian of these records.

https://th.usembassy.gov/u-s-citizen-services/local-resources-of-u-s-citizens/notaries-public/authentication-vital-records/

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We often get requests to certify true copies of educational transcripts or diplomas, bank statements, court documents, or other such official records. Unfortunately, our offices cannot ordinarily provide certified true copies of documents. Such requests should usually be addressed to the office which issued the document in question. For example, certified true copies of academic records should be requested from the registrar of the institution that originally issued them. For more information, please consult the Department of State Travel site.

https://th.usembassy.gov/u-s-citizen-services/local-resources-of-u-s-citizens/notaries-public/certification-true-copies-documents/

 

 

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Please be aware that the consular officer may refuse any notary service when:

• The host country does not authorize the performance of the service,
• The document will be used in transactions that may be prohibited by U.S. law,
• The officer believes that the document will be used for a purpose that is unlawful, improper, or inimical to the best interests of the United States, or
• The officer does not understand the document, due to language, the documents are incomplete , or any other reason.

 

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Edited September 3, 2016 by Suradit69

[kingstonkid]

I had an issue with the Canadian Embassy and certification of docs and what they did was stamp a statement from me written by me and attached the said docs to the letter and stamped the corners so that they are included in the package.

[puipuitom]

Thai BOI cound not understand an official statement with diploma of "Universiteit van Amsterdam" to be from "University of Amsterdam". Even not when I showed them the website with logo, faculty of Economics and professor at my notebook.

 

Probably they need some "notes" of translation... like 10 of 1000 THB

Edited September 3, 2016 by puipuitom

[new2here]

Here's how I was advised by Embassy staff..
First, get an official copy of your transcript (not a student use one) and have the university registrar verify it using their in-house notary public (someone in the registers office at most universities is a state-licensed notary public)

Once you have an official and notarized copy - send that to the STATE in which the notary (of the school) is located and have that states' Secretary of State certify that the notary public is legit..

Next, send it (which now has the schools stamp, plus the Secretary of State stamp) to the US State Departments Authentications office (in DC). They will certify that state stamp is legit

Then finally send that to the Thai embassy- they will certify (in Thai and with official stamp) that the US Department of State stamp is legit.

So... It's a long process --

1- University
2- Secretary of State (of the university or the person who signed your transcript)
3- US Department of State DC
4- Thai Embassy

In the end, you have what you'll need and it will ultimately bear two stamps that carry a lot of weight- a federal level stamp (from the Authentication office) and stamp from the Thai Embassy.

The US embassy can't do anything for you - and that's not unique to Thailand- they just don't/can't certify docs that aren't federally issued and whose legitimacy or content can't be verified .



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