Question: How to certify my ID/Documents to invest with UK financial companies?
In order to get a “Certified Document”, you need to ask an official notary to write necessarily information on the copy of the original document.
The notary needs to check both the Copy and the original document, and write information on the copied one.
Your possible notaries are:
- Bank or building society official
- Councillor
- Minister of religion
- Dentist
- Chartered accountant
- Solicitor or notary
- Teacher or lecturer
Although, above list is the possible notaries for your certified documents though, some companies might require very limited entities and individuals to certify your documents.
Notarizing your documents to be certified
In order to notarize and certify your documents, the notary(one from the list above) needs to write necessarily information on the documents.
The generally required information are as follows:
Official Notary’s name, occupation, sign, date, address and phone number, and writing of “Certified to be a true copy of the original seen by me”.
The company which has received the certified document may contact this notary to verify more if necessary.