Document authentication by the Philippine Consulate Office in London

Hi everyone,

Can you please help me? I need to know the process on how to have my COE authenticated by the PCO in London?

Thanks!
Lenny

Might be a silly question Lenny but what is a COE?

Certificate of Employment.

Another silly question Lenny, why would you want your COE authenticated?

I'm not going to ask you any more silly questions because its making me feel silly, I'm just going to ask the missus instead

I am planning to buy a house & lot in the Philippines and that is one the developer's requirements. Actually I have received an email from the Philippine Embassy in London. "The Embassy will only stamp “Seen and Noted” on your Certificate of
Employment if this will be sufficient for your purposes.

If not, the Embassy may authenticate your document. Prior to authentication
by the Philippine Embassy in London, your certificate of employment must be
notarized by a notary public or Commissioner of Oath. The signature of the
notary public or Commissioner of Oath must be legalized by the Foreign and
Commonwealth Office (FCO). For information on the FCO’s legalization
procedures, its website is www. fco.gov.uk/legalisation and address is The
Legalisation Office, Norfolk House, 437 Silbury Boulevard, Milton Keynes MK9
2AH, U.K.

Once the document requiring authentication has been legalized by the FCO,
the fee charged by the Embassy is Ł18.00 (per document) payable in cash or
British postal money order payable to the Philippine Embassy.

Processing time at the Philippine Embassy is three working days. If you wish
the document to be returned to you by post, kindly provide a pre-paid and
self-addressed special delivery envelope."

I guess what I am trying to do is find help to someone who has done this before?

No, it's not silly at all. I apologise for not giving enough info

Thanks Lenny, now I understand 100% and hopefully someone will be able to help you.

@Markham may be able to help you with this, hopefully he will reply soon.

It's a process with an outcome similar to "red ribboning", Tim.

Lenny: The process is well-described in the Embassy's email to you. You need to find a Solicitor who is a Notary Public and tell him that your Certificate of Employment requires to be notarised (by him) and Apostiled by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He will do the necessary, you will have to be present in his office to swear the Oath and then send it off to the FCO. The whole process should take no more than a couple of weeks and then you can get your Embassy to authenticate it. This whole process is necessary because the Philippines is not a signatory to the Hague Convention whilst most of the rest of the world, including the UK, is.