Foreign Ministry Starts Online Attestation for Travel and Study

Pakistan's Foreign Ministry has introduced online attestation for documents needed for foreign travel and education. Applicants can submit the documents digitally and receive an e-certificate by email after approval and fee payment.

In this article we set out how the service works, and what it does not yet specify. Here is everything you need to know.

How the Foreign Ministry's online attestation works

The path in the announcement is short. The applicant submits documents digitally. After approval and payment of the fee, an e-certificate arrives by email. The service is available in six cities, and it is meant to cut the need for an in-person visit.

The six cities are not named. The fee is not given. No other agency is named as a partner in this announcement.

Why it matters

Attestation is one of the queues people face before a visa or a university file. An emailed e-certificate changes that only in the cities where the service is actually open, and this announcement stops at "six" without the list.

• The ministry is the Foreign Ministry
• The service is online attestation
• The documents are for foreign travel and education
• Submission is digital
• The result is an e-certificate by email
• Approval and a fee come first
• Six cities are covered

What applicants still are not told

1. Which six cities.
2. The fee.
3. How long approval takes.
4. Which documents are accepted and which are not.

What happens next

A city list and a fee would make the service usable from this article alone. We will update it if the ministry publishes either.

Our verdict

The Foreign Ministry now attests travel and education documents online in six cities. Applicants submit digitally and receive an e-certificate by email after approval and fee payment. The cities and the fee are not in this announcement.

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