Instructions
The Consulate General of
the
Legalizing
the Power of Attorneys
1) Power
of Attorney is a permission issued from a person (or more than one person) to
another person (or more than one person) to represent him in certain matters.
2) The
consulate legalizes only the documents with the original signature.
3) If
you add something to the power of attorney or delete something from it, you
have to sign beside what you’ve been added or deleted.
Also if the power of attorney is formed of more than
one page, you have to sign each page.
4) You
can legalize the ratification or power of attorney by either two ways:
A. Come in
person to the consulate with your valid Egyptian passport and sign it in front the
consulate official.
B. By mail,
you have to send a copy of your valid Egyptian passport or Egyptian ID and you also
have to legalize the power of attorney from the following:
1. The
Notary Public notarizes your signature after proofing your ID. Since the power
of attorney is in Arabic language, you have to note that Notary Public has to
write in English that you (your name) signed in front of him.
2. For all ratifications or power of attorneys i.e.
financial, banking, selling properties, marriage,
divorce and telephone installation power of attorneys, both the
C. Sometimes
The Notary public refused to notarize Arabic power of attorneys because they do
not understand its contents, in this case you have to:
1. Find
a Notary Public can understand the Arabic text to notarize the document.
2. Print
both Arabic and English power of attorneys, fill out both of
them, notarize either or both of them, and send both of them to
the consulate to be legalized as one document.
5) There
are different types of power of attorneys as:
q General
power of attorney (Buy and Sell every thing)
A: From one person to one
person è Arabic Version (First Page Second Page
)
English Version
B: From multi-person to one
person è
Arabic Version (First Page Second Page)
English Version
C: From one person to
multi-person è
Arabic Version (First Page Second Page )
English Version
q Power of attorney to a lawyer to be used in courts
A: From one person to one lawyer Arabic
Version English Version
B: From multi-person to one
lawyer
Arabic Version
English
Version
C: From one person to
multi-lawyer
Arabic
Version English Version
A: From one person to one person
Arabic
Version English Version
B: From multi-person to one
person
Arabic
Version English
Version
C: From one person to
multi-person Arabic
Version English
Version
q Power of attorney to sell a
car Arabic
Version English
Version
q Power of attorney for
marriage Arabic
Version English
Version
q Power of attorney for
divorce Arabic
Version English
Version
q Power of attorney for
telephone contract Arabic
Version English Version
q Multi purpose power of
attorney Arabic
Version English
Version
q Cancel a previous power of
attorney Arabic Version
English Version
There
are different types of certificates as:
q Certificate of permission to
the wife to issue Egyptian passport and travel abroad
q Certificate of permission to
add children to their mother’s passport
q Certificate of existing
alive (for pension reasons)
Legalizing the Noncommercial and NGO Documents
It depends on the type of
document as:
A. If it is educational
document (School certificate) up to the level of grade 11, it has to be legalized by the school district and the secretary of State
before sending it to the Consulate. If it is a grade 12, 13, collage or
University certificate, it must be legalized first from the
Egyptian Cultural office in
B. The
Consulate directly
legalizes the Marriage, Birth and Death certificates issued by the
competent
American authorities in the West Coast. When sending American
birth
certificate to be legalized by the consulate, please send with it
photocopies of the parents passports and the marriage
certificate. When sending death certificate to be legalized by the
consulate, please send with it the original Egyptian Passport of the
decedent to be canceled by the consulate then returned to the
decedent's family.
C. Other documents
must be legalized from:
1) The Notary Public.
2) The Secretary
of State has to verify the Notary Public
Signature.
3) The NGOs which aim at working in
q The
fees for legalization are $25 for each document in Cashier Check or Money
orders payable to "Egyptian Consulate" (personal checks are not
accepted).
q For mail, please enclose self-addressed prepaid
express mail . The consulate will not be responsible of any other
kind of mail the citizen may send.
q The
procedure takes 2 days if done by mail, and on the
same day for the person who come to the consulate.