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Q: If I already authenticated my degree...
If I already authenticated my degree but it got ruined by coffee, can I have my university send another one to get authenticated?
I thought I heard some absurd rule that the Chinese Embassy will only authenticate your degree once.
Can anyone provide some clarification on this matter before I pay for the process?
7 years 7 weeks ago in Visa & Legalities - China
Its best to do it again, I have my degree authenticated with a big sticker with a flashy round circle on it, so if that sticker is ok then its fine as they can check the seal number.
Zethe:
I just want to do it again because showing my boss a coffee stained degree (even with the sticker) isn't exactly professional haha.
I don't recall which country you're from, but the Chinese not authenticating a degree more than once would imply that they keep records of such things.... which I think would be just silly!!! (oh, TiC)
Also, when I got mine done, I had multiple copies authenticated and all... thus, also showing it shouldn't be a problem.
(not to mention - which I'm going to mention anyway - that often, each job application will take your authenticated copy for the RP application - and not give it back!)
So now you have an authenticated, authentic degree! Like the universities in the west hand out fake degrees like their Chinese counterparts and the Organized crime rings in North America. Remember, they must be authenticated to prove they are not "made in china" fakes. Prospective FT's should be getting the prospective Chinese schools to pay for this useless bit of bureaucracy. It is starting to look like a prospective ESL teacher is going to pay big bucks up front before legally starting a job in China and then wait up to 45 days to get paid.
Shining_brow:
Actually, this is one rule I don't disagree with, and I think actually makes sense!!!
It's not that our universities (or countries) produce fake degrees. It's to stop the Chinese from producing them! Legitimate stamps from the university, country's relevant department, AND the consulate/embassy back home - gonna be hard to fake that one!!! (well, not really :p)
The cost is relatively negligible - unless you're here already, and it can't be done by someone else....
Zethe:
Lol, the U.S. is not rife with 'crime rings' that deal in 'fake degrees'. Who told you that? Chinese state controlled media?
I think you're confusing China with a developed country.
As for the authentication process, I highly doubt the Chinese embassy is in any way shape or form competent or resourceful enough to determine whether a degree is fake or not.
Your post doesn't answer my question btw.
Zethe:
As for cost, that also isn't much of an issue.
It's the waiting and having to pay Washington D.C. agencies to do it that gets annoying (who wants to fly back across the world just for some pieces of paper??).
