Visa Stamping on Passport for our Baby
Hello everyone!
My wife and I will be traveling with our Baby to Doha next month. She will be 5 months at time of travel.
Once we arrive in Qatar we intend to get her resident permit stamped on her passport. My question is - do we have to have her Birth Certificate attested/ notarized/ legalized for the Immigration department? Is it mandatory?
The baby holds a US passport and US birth certificate.
Thanks for your help in advance.
My wife and I both have valid RPs for Qatar. I just wanted to make sure I have all the right documents so that the little one can get her RP stamped once we are in Qatar.
The only difference I see from the process you have noted (info from the US Embassy) is that I will need to get the birth certificate notarized by the secretary of state where the child was born, then notarized by the State Department in DC and then the US embassy in Qatar. And once all this is done, I will have to take the documents to the Consular Affairs Section of Qatar's Ministry of Foreign Affairs to authenticate the Embassy's seal and signature. (No role for the Qatar Embassy in US)
From my research I found out that all these steps are necessary because Qatar is not a Hague Convention country. Otherwise an Apostille would have sufficed.
Good luck with your Visa Stamping!
I am going through the same process for my son and wife, who will be roughly the same age as your daughter.
What my company tells me is this:
1. Wife's passport copy
2. Son's passport copy
3. Marriage certificate, attested by Foreign Affairs of the country you were married in. Then this to be attested by the Qatar Embassy of that country.
4. Birth certificate, attested by Foreign Affairs of the country he was born in. Then this to be attested by the Qatar Embassy of that country.
Then, the application goes in, with all that info attached. Waiting game starts.
They will then stamp on arrival appropriately.
My wife will then require blood / xray / fingerprinting, and then gets the RP. I think my son gets the RP automatically on arrival.
Hope that helps. It is the procedure I am going through, so I hope its correct.