Instructions

To legalize the Power of Attorney, Certificates,

Noncommercial and NGO Documents

kindly note that the Egyptian passport need to be valid

The Consulate General of the Arab Republic of Egypt in San Francisco extends its compliments and presents the following instructions to legalize personal power of attorneys and noncommercial documents, bearing in mind that the legalization process takes two working days if submitted by mail and will be done in the same day if submitted in person:

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 County Clerk and then the Secretary of State have to verify the Notary Public Signature.

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

q Power of attorney for Banks

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

Legalizing the Certificates

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 Washington, DC before sending it to the Consultate. You need to send with any of these educational certificate photocopy of student passport and his parents passports.

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 Egypt should provide a certified copies of the documents they are providing such as articles of incorporation, by laws, board of directors list, representative in Egypt authorization letter and proof of tax exemption in the USA. all of these documents has to be pre-legalized by the secretary of Sate.

q You have to send a copy of the Egyptian passport of the person who issued the declaration or the power of attorney.

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.