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Document readiness
For: People already working with an authorised representative
Administrative preparation work: building a document inventory, tracking what has been requested, what is outstanding and what has an expiry date attached to it, so that your representative is not waiting on paperwork.
Included in this work
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A written inventory of documents requested by your representative or authority
- 02
Tracking issuing bodies, translation and certification steps, and validity windows
- 03
A single maintained checklist shared with you in your preferred format
Deliberately outside this work
Assessing whether a document satisfies a legal requirement
Certifying, translating or issuing documents
Holding original identity documents on your behalf
Government requirements
Only the authority or your authorised representative can confirm that a document meets a requirement.
Requirements, fees and processing times are published by the responsible authority in the destination jurisdiction. This practice does not restate them here, because a figure copied onto a private website is out of date the moment the authority changes it.