{"id":42522,"date":"2024-07-17T17:03:43","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T12:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=42522"},"modified":"2024-09-07T11:48:24","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T06:48:24","slug":"foreign-office-suspends-walk-in-apostille-general-attestation-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/foreign-office-suspends-walk-in-apostille-general-attestation-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Office suspends walk-in apostille, general attestation services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has suspended the walk-in facility for <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/apostille-verification-system-of-foreign-office-became-inactive-resulting-in-serious-problem-for-citizens\/\">apostille<\/a> and general attestation in Islamabad and its liaison offices in Karachi and Lahore.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/no-plans-to-enter-into-any-talks-with-ttp-foreign-office\/\">Foreign Office<\/a> said, &#8220;To facilitate public for Apostille and General Attestation, Foreign Ministry in Islamabad and its liaison offices in Karachi and Lahore are providing facility of document attestation services through courier companies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Under the new policy, the public will visit designated courier collection points for Apostille and general attestations. The walk-in facility would be suspended with effect from July 18, 2024 (Thursday).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Important Announcement<\/p>\n<p>To facilitate public for Apostille and General Attestation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Islamabad and its liaison offices in Karachi and Lahore are providing facility of document attestation services through courier companies. We encourage the public\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/M8QXvPjbut\">pic.twitter.com\/M8QXvPjbut<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ministry of Foreign Affairs &#8211; Pakistan (@ForeignOfficePk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ForeignOfficePk\/status\/1813238423517335714?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Foreign Office said that the courier companies have the authority to accept all documents except the Power of Attorney. <span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Applicants can directly visit designated <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">centres<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> in Islamabad, Lahore, and Karachi for document verification.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"css-175oi2r\">\n<div id=\"id__coq09fycj8\" class=\"css-175oi2r r-9aw3ui r-1s2bzr4\" aria-labelledby=\"id__ixfrfj4tv8 id__kk6lcqk49d\">\n<div class=\"css-175oi2r r-9aw3ui\">\n<div class=\"css-175oi2r\">\n<h2 class=\"css-175oi2r r-1adg3ll r-1udh08x\">New fee structure for document attestation<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Alongside procedural changes for document attestation, Minstry of Foreign Affais have also revised fee structure.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Personal and educational documents: Rs3,000 per document<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Legal documents: Rs4,500 per document<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Commercial documents: Rs12,000 per document<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has suspended the walk-in facility for apostille and general attestation in Islamabad and its liaison offices in Karachi and Lahore. In a statement, the Foreign Office said, &#8220;To facilitate public for Apostille and General Attestation, Foreign Ministry in Islamabad and its liaison offices in Karachi and Lahore are providing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":41509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1932,2475,19732],"class_list":["post-42522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-foreign-office","tag-ministry-of-foreign-affairs","tag-apostille-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42522"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47676,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42522\/revisions\/47676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}