SEC-school reports-useful info! (Doha)
Jul 22nd 2014, 11:54 am
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SEC-school reports-useful info! (Doha)
dear all,
my husband went to SEC in Doha this morning to see if he could give them the assessed school reports of our daughter. this time I can share with you useful information, at least, and not only pose questions!! :-)
here is his report.
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First of all, the building is called "Attestation and Certificates Equivalency Unit" , and is located on C-Ring Road east of Najma Street, 50 meters east of the Gulf Cinema on the same side of the road, right in front of the Gulf Times headquarters.
This was not easy to find out since the website of the SEC gives very imprecise, and wrong, indications, and of course nobody answers the phone; indeed, this unit used to be in another building, still on C-ring road but one km west of where it is now, a few meters east of the Holiday Villa complex; indeed, the sign is still up there, to trick people like me (who originally went there, only to find a closed building and with no indication that the Unit had moved and where it had moved to; luckily enough I found an Arab there who was there for the same reason as me and who found out by phone where the unit had moved to).
So, they told me that in order to have the certificates attested the child must be here and must have her RP already.
They said that once the application is placed, the attestation process takes no more than three working days (so, we need to go there once to apply and a second time to pick up the attested documents ...)
The good news is that, as they told me, it is up to the school principal to decide whether the kids can start attending school before the process is completed; tomorrow morning I will indeed call ACS to find out whether they (as I hope) will allow Irene to start attending even in case the process is not complete yet.
The documents we need to bring to the SEC are:
(a) photocopy of the kid's passport, including the page on which the RP is stamped;
(b) school reports (one original + one copy for each report): the latest report needs to be attested (I assume this means: by the Qatar embassy), the one prior to the latest need not be attested.
my husband went to SEC in Doha this morning to see if he could give them the assessed school reports of our daughter. this time I can share with you useful information, at least, and not only pose questions!! :-)
here is his report.
-------------------
First of all, the building is called "Attestation and Certificates Equivalency Unit" , and is located on C-Ring Road east of Najma Street, 50 meters east of the Gulf Cinema on the same side of the road, right in front of the Gulf Times headquarters.
This was not easy to find out since the website of the SEC gives very imprecise, and wrong, indications, and of course nobody answers the phone; indeed, this unit used to be in another building, still on C-ring road but one km west of where it is now, a few meters east of the Holiday Villa complex; indeed, the sign is still up there, to trick people like me (who originally went there, only to find a closed building and with no indication that the Unit had moved and where it had moved to; luckily enough I found an Arab there who was there for the same reason as me and who found out by phone where the unit had moved to).
So, they told me that in order to have the certificates attested the child must be here and must have her RP already.
They said that once the application is placed, the attestation process takes no more than three working days (so, we need to go there once to apply and a second time to pick up the attested documents ...)
The good news is that, as they told me, it is up to the school principal to decide whether the kids can start attending school before the process is completed; tomorrow morning I will indeed call ACS to find out whether they (as I hope) will allow Irene to start attending even in case the process is not complete yet.
The documents we need to bring to the SEC are:
(a) photocopy of the kid's passport, including the page on which the RP is stamped;
(b) school reports (one original + one copy for each report): the latest report needs to be attested (I assume this means: by the Qatar embassy), the one prior to the latest need not be attested.
Jul 26th 2014, 7:50 am
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Re: SEC-school reports-useful info! (Doha)
Thanks for the post!
Can I ask.. What did the school say???
Can your daughter start without RP?
The process is so confusing, I was told that the last 2 school reports had to be attested by the Qatar embassy and then you are told that only 1 is required!
Can I ask.. What did the school say???
Can your daughter start without RP?
The process is so confusing, I was told that the last 2 school reports had to be attested by the Qatar embassy and then you are told that only 1 is required!
