Birth certificate prepared for an adoption filing in Belgium
A Canadian client based in Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand needed a Thai birth certificate accepted for an adoption filing in Belgium. We handled the full certification chain end to end.
Client location
Ubon Ratchathani
Nationality
Canadian
Destination
Belgium
A Canadian client based in Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand needed a Thai birth certificate accepted for an adoption filing in Belgium. We handled the full certification chain end to end.
The client was referred by a migration adviser. Our first step was a document review against the receiving authority's current checklist for Belgium, because acceptance rules differ by authority and are revised regularly. We confirmed which certification layers were genuinely required before any work started, so nothing unnecessary was paid for.
Under our Work Permit & Business Visa Documents workflow we then completed each required layer in the correct order. Order matters: a translation certified before the underlying record is re-issued, or an embassy attestation attempted before Ministry of Foreign Affairs legalisation, is routinely rejected and has to be repeated.
Before hand-over we checked names, dates, spellings against the passport, seal placement and page numbering, and delivered the completed set by tracked courier or in person at our Lat Phrao office in Bangkok.
What we handled
a document-set review against the receiving authority's current checklist
translation by a translator the receiving authority accepts
certification by a Thai Notarial Services Attorney
legalisation at the Department of Consular Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Complication and resolution
Complication encountered: the name spelling on the Thai document did not match the passport page.
How it was resolved: we prepared a name-variation note alongside the translation and cross-referenced the civil-registry document numbers so every page matched.
This is an illustrative scenario representing the type of work we handle. It is not a record of an identifiable client and is not a customer review. Requirements change — always confirm the current checklist with the receiving authority.
