The course of for just about making use of and acquiring attestation of certificates and apostilles by Indian residents for his or her paperwork by e-Sanad portal has been simplified, a senior official of the Union Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) mentioned in Chennai on Friday.

Under the simplified course of, the paperwork needn’t go to New Delhi for processing.

Addressing a press convention, the MEA’s Head of Branch Secretariat in Chennai, S. Vijayakumar, mentioned extra universities and academic establishments in Tamil Nadu have been built-in into e-Sanad and the method of attestation/apostille of E-Sanad-uploaded paperwork has been launched in Chennai for the reason that first week of September.

Profile registration

Once the applicant creates a profile in https://esanad.nic.in/register, uploads paperwork and makes the cost by Bharatkosh, the doc issuing authority (college/academic establishment) verifies the authenticity.

The attestation is then verified by the General Administrative Department of the State authorities after which it goes to the MEA for issuing digital attestation. “Within seven working days of receiving the appliance from the State authorities, we are going to dispatch the doc to the applicant by velocity put up,” Mr. Vijayakumar mentioned.

Status monitoring

The applicant might monitor the standing on-line. The simplified course of would assist Indians in search of international employment, Indians residing overseas and Indian nationals going overseas for research.

The simplified course of would assist them within the attestation of private, academic and business paperwork by e-Sanad portal.

Around 300 purposes have been efficiently processed for the reason that launch of the mixing of e-Sanad was rolled out within the first week of September in Chennai, Mr. Vijayakumar mentioned.

Published – September 20, 2025 12:20 am IST