How We Research and Check Our Guides

Our guides explain how documents from other countries are attested for use in Dubai, and how UAE documents are attested for use abroad. A mistake on these pages can cost a reader weeks and a rejected document, so we hold them to a few fixed rules. This page sets out those rules, so you can judge our guides by them.

The rules apply to every guide that carries the line "By the AttestPort team" and ends with a Sources list. We are bringing our older guides up to the same standard, and until a guide carries that line and that list, not all of these rules apply to it yet.

Who writes our guides

Our guides are researched, checked and published by the AttestPort team in Dubai. We publish them under the team's name rather than an individual's. Every guide written to this standard is reviewed and approved by the business before it goes live.

We use government sources only

Every fact in these guides comes from the official source that sets the rule: a government ministry, a state or county office, an embassy or consulate, a court, or an international body such as the Hague Conference on Private International Law. We do not use other attestation companies, forums or directories as sources, even when they rank well, because their pages copy each other and are often out of date.

When we check a source, we read the page itself on the day or, where an office's website refuses access, a dated archived copy of that office's own page, and the guide says so and gives the archive date. For every source we record:

• -the exact web address;
• -the exact words the rule relies on, copied from the page and never paraphrased;
• -the date we read it;
• -how we read it (some government sites block automated tools, so we note when we had to open a page in a normal browser or read the office's own archived copy).

Where no official source says something, we don't guess. We say that no rule is published, and we tell you what to check or ask before you start.

Two checks before a guide goes live

Before a guide written to this standard is published, it passes two checks.

Every fact is matched against its source again. In the seven days before the guide is published, every official page it relies on is fetched again, and the exact words behind each fact are matched against that page. Where an office's live website refuses access, the match is made against the dated archived copy of that office's own page, and the guide says so. Each fact passes or fails, and the results are kept as a record. If a quoted passage has changed or can no longer be found, the guide is not published until the sentence that relies on it has been corrected and checked again. A sample of the results is also checked independently, by a different method.

Every statement about our own service is confirmed and signed. What a guide says about AttestPort itself, such as where we collect and deliver documents and how we handle each step, is not something a government page can confirm. The business reads each of those statements and signs to confirm that they are true.

A guide written to this standard is not published until both checks are complete. Each of these guides ends with a Sources list: every government page it relies on, with the date its wording was last matched.

How we use AI

AI tools help us find official pages, pull out their exact wording, draft our guides and match every fact against the source's exact words. Guides written this way carry a line under the byline that says so and gives the date the facts were last matched against their sources. A guide carries that line only once both checks above are complete.

What we don't publish

• -Fees. Official fees change and differ by document, country and speed, so we don't print amounts. Ask us for a quote instead.
• -Total timelines. When we give a processing time, it is the office's own published figure for that one step, and we say whose it is. We don't add the steps into one overall figure, because each office's queue varies and a total would promise more than any office does.
• -Promises for other offices. Government offices, embassies and consulates set their own rules and pace. We explain what they publish; we don't speak for them.

Corrections and review dates

If you find something in a guide that no longer matches the official source, tell us on WhatsApp or by email at info@attestport.ae, and send us the page if you have it. We check the source again. If the guide is wrong, we correct it and note the date of the correction on the guide.

Some facts go stale on their own, such as a state office's rules or a ministry's page. Where a guide lists rules state by state or office by office, it shows the date we last verified them and a date by which we check them again, no more than six months later. We also check again as soon as we see that an official page has changed.

Who we are

AttestPort is a private document attestation company in Dubai. We are not a government office, and we are not an official channel of any ministry, embassy or consulate. We handle the paperwork and the steps for you, and we tell you plainly which rules come from which office.