If you are preparing your police clearance certificate for a skilled worker or employment visa application in Saudi Arabia, the document must first carry an officially recognized apostille. Without it, Saudi Arabia's receiving institutions — embassies, consulates, employers, universities or immigration officers — cannot legally verify that your record was issued by a competent authority. This page explains how the apostille works specifically for Saudi Arabia, who issues it, what other steps usually accompany it, and how DoCertify handles the entire chain on your behalf.
Documents bound for Saudi Arabia are authenticated through the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) following Saudi Embassy attestation in the country of origin. Saudi Arabia requires the longer consular-legalization chain rather than a single apostille. The document is first authenticated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the country of origin, then attested at Saudi Arabia's embassy or consulate before it is recognized by Saudi Arabia institutions.
Standard turnaround for apostille of your police clearance certificate bound for Saudi Arabia is 3–7 working days from the moment we receive the original document. Urgent processing is available in 24–48 hours for most countries of origin where the issuing authority offers expedited service.
No. The entire apostille chain is processed in the country where your police clearance certificate was issued, not in Saudi Arabia. You only need to ship the original document to our processing office; the apostilled and translated package is then couriered to wherever you are.
Yes. The apostille we issue is performed by the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) following Saudi Embassy attestation in the country of origin, the recognized authority for documents of this type. Receiving institutions in Saudi Arabia — embassies, consulates, employers and immigration offices — verify the document through the same channel.
If your police clearance is not in one of Saudi Arabia's working languages, a sworn translation is normally required in addition to the apostille. We can add a certified translation as part of the same order.
Employers and skilled-worker visa officers in Saudi Arabia sit on dozens of applications per week. A document chain that arrives correctly authenticated and translated the first time moves through the queue faster, while a chain with a missing step is set aside and often only flagged after weeks of waiting. We process your police clearance certificate so that the work-visa decision-maker can verify it on first inspection.