Notorizing of documents, photos

[greenside]

Hi there,

I will be sponsoring my spouse and just wondering about having things notorized, I know in the UK we have to have a photo signed by a person under a certain occupation bracket for the police checks. There is also the thing of sending 8 passport size photos with the application do they need to be notorized aswell, and do we need to have any statements from people regarding our relationship or will our evidence and detailed love story be sufficient ?

Any help would be great.

 

[zardoz]

If you follow the application guide to the letter, you will see that very few things NEED to be notarized.

However, you can choose to have whatever document copies you want notarized. It's expensive and may not make any difference to your application but we did it, just in case, for copies of "legal documents", such as marriage certificate, birth certificate, decree absolute , passports etc. Then there could be no argument from CIC as to the authenticity of the documents.

Regardless of what others may think about this, our application sailed through London in only 4 months, so it did no harm.

 

[greenside]

Thanks for the info, we will have to get them translated from lithuanian into english regarding birth cirtificate, passport and medical stuff anyway so maybe we can get them all done at once some how.

 

[Rob_TO]

Thanks for the info, we will have to get them translated from lithuanian into english regarding birth cirtificate, passport and medical stuff anyway so maybe we can get them all done at once some how.

For anything you are making a translation of, you'll need to include the original copy OR a notarized/certified true photocopy of the original. And of course the translation itself needs to be notarized/certified.

For most other documents already in English, you don't need certified photocopies unless it specifically asks for it in the guide. CIC specifically says regular photocopies are fine for most documents, so certifying many things when you don't need to can lead to lots of unnecessary expensive costs. So read your country specific guide carefully.

Even something like a passport should have English fields already on the main bio page, so I don't think you need this certified (unless its ONLY in Lithuanian, i'm not sure how your passport looks). We sent in a regular non-certified photocopy of my wife's Korean passport (with English/Korean in the field headings on bio page), and it was accepted no problem.