Beneficiaries of this service:
Citizens, Expats, Business, investors and visitors.
Service Procedures:
The service aims to provide a legal approval of the commercial documents to be used in and outside Qatar, documents such as:
- Country of origin.
- Bill of lading (Manifesto).
- Commercial contracts.
- Invoices.
Terms and requirements:
The Department of Consular Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or one of its branches (five branches at present and will be eight branches at the beginning of next year) ratify the stamp or Signature of the chamber of commerce or any other ministry or authority approved by the Department of Consular Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs .
General instructions:
- The document sent for attestation must include a group of stamps and signatures ending with a stamp and signature approved by Department of Consular Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- The authorities of the Government of the State of Qatar are responsible for ratification of documents issued by them, as well as copies of those documents.
- Qatar chamber of commerce approves stamps and signatures of some translation offices.
- If the information on an attested document or any of its signatures or stamps, turns out to be incorrect, the attestation will be considered void and null, in which case the department of consular affairs will reserve the right to file claims to the concerned authorities in Qatar.
The Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its affiliates are not responsible for the contents of the document. However, they 'll refuse to ratify any document the content of which proves to be contrary to the regulations of the State of Qatar.
Commercial Documents attestation fees:
Statement | Qatari Riyal | American Dollar |
Certificate of origin, bill of lading, commercial contracts, commercial agencies (all types) | QR 150 | $ 41 |
Documents (civil, personal, judicial, medial and academic certificates, or any document, contract, certificate not mentioned in this table). | QR 100 | $ 27 |
Price of the fixed exchange rate of the Qatari Riyal against the America dollar. | 3.64 |
Fees of other commercial documents:
| Fees in Qatari Riyal | | Fees in U.S Dollars |
From | Up to | Fee | From | Up to | Fee |
0.00 | 15,000 | QAR500 | 0.00 | 4,121 | $138 |
15,001 | 100,000 | QAR1,000 | 4, 122 | 27,473 | $275 |
100,001 | 250,000 | QAR2,500 | 27,474 | 68,681 | $687 |
250,001 | 1000,000 | QAR5,000 | 68,682 | 274,725 | $1,374 |
1000,001 | 0.6% | 274,726 | 0.6% |