Fees and steps checked on
Ecuador certificate attestation gets an Ecuadorian título, bachillerato, partida de nacimiento, acta de matrimonio or poder ready for a UAE employer, school or immigration office. Ecuador is an apostille country. The UAE is not, and it wants its own embassy stamp plus MOFA attestation. For Ecuador, the UAE embassy that gives that stamp sits in Lima, Peru.
Price: There is no fixed price for Ecuador. Send a copy on WhatsApp and you get the total price plus VAT, all official fees included, before any work starts. The attestation fees page shows what a total includes.
About us: we are a private document service in Bur Dubai. We are not MOFA, an embassy or a government office. Pickup and delivery of your documents anywhere in Dubai costs nothing.
Four stops, two countries
Stop one, the source. Degrees are tied to SENESCYT, Ecuador's higher education secretariat, which keeps the national register of university titles. Birth and marriage records come from the Registro Civil. Powers of attorney come from a notaría.
Stop two, Quito. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility certifies the document. Whether that takes the form of a legalisation or an apostille for a UAE file is something we confirm from your copy.
Stop three, Lima. The UAE Embassy in Lima states that it serves residents of Ecuador and Bolivia as well as Peru. The original crosses the border for the embassy stamp.
Stop four, the UAE. MOFA completes the chain, unless the embassy issues a digital attestation that already includes it.
Ecuador is not on the VFS Global country list for UAE attestation, which is one more reason we check the route before the original leaves your hands.
SENESCYT comes first for degrees
A UAE employer or the Ministry of Human Resources wants a degree that Ecuador itself recognises. If your título does not appear in the SENESCYT register, fix that before anything else, because the foreign ministry works from that record. Ask us to look at your registration printout with the degree. Then see degree certificate attestation for the UAE side of a work permit.
Civil records from the Registro Civil
For a child's residence visa the UAE needs the birth record, and for a spouse visa the marriage record. Ask the Registro Civil for a recently issued copy. Older partidas, or ones with handwritten corrections, cause the most delays. More on the visa side: birth certificate attestation and marriage certificate attestation.
Spanish to English, and when
MOFA does not read Spanish. The Lima embassy's own guidance for Peruvian papers puts an official English translation before the foreign ministry, which then stamps both versions. If Lima applies that to your Ecuadorian file, the translation has to be done in Ecuador, early. If not, it can be done here at the end. Either way we decide it on day one.
Quito, Guayaquil, Cuenca or Dubai
The route is national, so your city does not change it. It only changes the courier plan. Many of our Ecuadorian clients are already in the UAE: a family member collects fresh records at home, the file goes to the ministry, then to Lima, then back to us.
What goes wrong most often
- An apostille ordered on its own, then rejected in the UAE.
- A título missing from the SENESCYT register.
- Paternal and maternal surnames in a different order from the passport.
- Laminated certificates, which MOFA will not stamp.
Once the document is back in the UAE, MOFA courier attestation usually takes 1 to 3 business days. All official fees in Ecuador, Peru and the UAE are inside our single quote. Next door routes: Colombia certificate attestation and Venezuela certificate attestation.
