- Client profile
- Student applying to study abroad · the institution deadline drives the timeline · Location: South Africa (coordinated with Ang Thong)
- Services used
- corporate and commercial law work + litigation and dispute resolution
- Challenge
- It was unclear whether an apostille or embassy legalisation applied — the task was to make this set usable by the receiving authority in South Africa in the required format.
- What we did
- confirm the receiving authority's requirements before starting any certification step
- have a second reviewer proofread the translation independently of the translator
- draft a power of attorney that covers every step to be handled on the client's behalf
- prepare the translation using the official names the authorities themselves use
- Outcome and indicative timeline
- the risk points were corrected before filing, which reduced the number of revision rounds · several working days, depending on the queue at the authority
- What mattered most to the client
- flexibility when the applicant is in another province or abroad