Un-staple translated documents to scan?

[au_09]

Hello all,

For my EE application, I need to attach my translated birth certificate. The document was translated by a certified translation. The document he gave me contains the translation + photocopies of my original documents. They are stapled together, with a little triangle thing in the corner. Each page has a little stamp with a signature.

Now I need to upload this document online. Can I un-staple the pages to be able to scan them? (Scanning the document while stapled covers part of the photocopies).

Thank you!!

 

[vensak]

Try not to do that. Keep the original just in case (they can ask for original by mail - also highly improbable). Just scan it as good as you can manually (you can alternatively try to make good photo of each page).

 

[Wolverine17]

Hello all,

For my EE application, I need to attach my translated birth certificate. The document was translated by a certified translation. The document he gave me contains the translation + photocopies of my original documents. They are stapled together, with a little triangle thing in the corner. Each page has a little stamp with a signature.

Now I need to upload this document online. Can I un-staple the pages to be able to scan them? (Scanning the document while stapled covers part of the photocopies).

Thank you!!

I cant see anything wrong with unstapling the papers but maybe someone else can help

 

[vensak]

I cant see anything wrong with unstapling the papers but maybe someone else can help

By unstapling that, he would break the original seal on in. (They are stapled together, with a little triangle thing in the corner. Each page has a little stamp with a signature.).
That will make the whole copy non authentic, should he use it as a document sent my normal mail or shown.

 

[Wolverine17]

By unstapling that, he would break the original seal on in. (They are stapled together, with a little triangle thing in the corner. Each page has a little stamp with a signature.).
That will make the whole copy non authentic, should he use it as a document sent my normal mail or shown.

Then he may upload the translation,original and original copy with stamp

 

[au_09]

thank you all for your replies!

The blue thing isn't the seal. It's just a little piece of paper (don't even know why it's there).
I asked the translator today, and he told me: you can upload the documents without the staple, BEFORE they get stapled. Once they're stapled together, you now need to scan them that way... because a scanned document should not have any holes in it.

???