Degree Certificate Apostille Services Uttar Pradesh: One Delhi Process for Every University in the State
Degree certificate apostille services Uttar Pradesh graduates need run through the same Delhi stages whichever of the State's many universities awarded the degree, and INFINITYGRO completes the Notary, SDM, Ministry of External Affairs and embassy steps for you.
Uttar Pradesh holds more universities than any other State, and its Higher Education Department counts five central, twenty-five State public, fifty-two State private and ten deemed government universities. Which one issued your degree decides where verification goes, nothing else.
- One process for affiliating, central, technical and private universities
- Courier from Lucknow, Kanpur, Varanasi, Gorakhpur, Meerut or Noida
- Built for the Purvanchal Gulf corridor and the NCR study-abroad route
- Every stage of Degree Certificate Apostille Services Uttar Pradesh tracked and confirmed on WhatsApp
What do degree certificate apostille services uttar pradesh involve?
Degree certificate apostille services Uttar Pradesh applicants use end with the Ministry of External Affairs applying a numbered sticker to the reverse of the original degree, which makes it valid in every country that has joined the Hague Apostille Convention without any further embassy stamp.
The Ministry certifies only what has already been vouched for. That earlier step is either authentication by the Uttar Pradesh authorities, or a Notary Public followed by a Sub-Divisional Magistrate in Delhi. Countries outside the convention, chiefly the UAE, Qatar and Kuwait, need MEA attestation and then embassy legalisation instead.
In short, degree certificate apostille services uttar pradesh is completed entirely in Delhi, whichever of the two routes your file takes.
The universities behind Uttar Pradesh degrees
Four structures run side by side: large affiliating universities for general degrees, one statewide technical university, the central universities and institutes of national importance, and a long list of private and deemed ones. The university named on the certificate is the only thing that changes how degree certificate apostille services uttar pradesh is handled.
The big affiliating universities
Chaudhary Charan Singh University at Meerut, the University of Lucknow, Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University at Agra, Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University at Kanpur, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University, Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohilkhand University at Bareilly, Bundelkhand University at Jhansi and Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University at Jaunpur each affiliate hundreds of colleges.
Your degree names the university, not the college, so verification always goes to that registrar.
Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow
AKTU awards the engineering, pharmacy, architecture and management degrees for most of the State, so a graduate of a college in Ghaziabad, Kanpur or Gorakhpur holds a degree naming Lucknow.
Older degrees may read UPTU, GBTU or MTU, which are the same body under earlier names. See B.Tech degree apostille.
Central universities and national institutes
Banaras Hindu University, Aligarh Muslim University, the University of Allahabad, IIT Kanpur, IIT (BHU) Varanasi, MNNIT Allahabad, IIM Lucknow and the AIIMS at Gorakhpur and Rae Bareli award degrees in their own name.
The Higher Education Department counts five central universities in the State alongside twenty-five State public ones.
Medical and health sciences degrees
King George's Medical University at Lucknow awards its own degrees, while Atal Bihari Vajpayee Medical University, also at Lucknow, now awards the MBBS, BDS and nursing degrees for the State's government colleges. Uttar Pradesh University of Medical Sciences at Saifai, Etawah, serves its own region.
See MBBS apostille and B.Sc Nursing apostille.
Agricultural and veterinary universities
Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture and Technology at Kanpur, Narendra Deva University of Agriculture and Technology at Ayodhya, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University at Meerut, Banda University of Agriculture and Technology and DUVASU at Mathura award the State's agriculture and veterinary degrees.
Their graduates move to Australia, Canada and the Gulf, where transcripts travel with the degree.
Open, private and deemed universities
Uttar Pradesh Rajarshi Tandon Open University at Prayagraj awards the State's distance degrees. Amity, Sharda, Galgotias, Bennett and Shiv Nadar in the NCR, Integral and Babu Banarasi Das at Lucknow and Teerthanker Mahaveer at Moradabad are among fifty-two State private universities.
Tell us at the outset if your degree was earned by distance learning, so the file is built with that in mind.
What we handle and what stays with you
Gulf files from the eastern districts usually pass through a recruitment agent, which makes it worth being exact about where our part begins and ends.
INFINITYGRO carries out every Delhi stage. We do not apply for university verification and we do not lodge files with the Uttar Pradesh higher education or technical education departments.
Read the two columns below before you start, so there is no doubt about which part of degree certificate apostille services uttar pradesh belongs to whom.
Handled by INFINITYGRO
- Notary Public seal and signature on the original degree
- Attestation by a Sub-Divisional Magistrate here in Delhi
- The MEA apostille, where the destination has joined the convention
- MEA attestation followed by UAE, Qatar or Kuwait embassy legalisation
- Taking over mid-file if your degree is already State-authenticated
- Tracked courier both ways, with a scan sent before anything returns
Arranged by you, if asked for
- Verification of the degree by the awarding university
- State authentication from the Uttar Pradesh authorities, where the sponsor or council demands it
Once that stamp is on the degree, courier it to us and we resume from the MEA stage.
Two routes for degree certificate apostille services uttar pradesh
Whichever route you take, the file ends at the Ministry of External Affairs. All that changes is who certifies the degree before it reaches that desk: the State, or a notary and a magistrate in Delhi.
Sponsors in the Gulf normally state which of the two they will accept, so get that in writing before any money changes hands.
State authentication route for Degree Certificate Apostille Services Uttar Pradesh
For sponsors and councils that require the State's authentication first.
- Arranged by you
Authentication by the Uttar Pradesh higher education authorities
The Higher Education Department runs the State's universities and colleges, with the Directorate at Prayagraj, while technical qualifications sit with the Department of Technical Education.
Open the Uttar Pradesh Higher Education Department site - Handled by INFINITYGRO
MEA apostille for Hague Convention countries
Post the authenticated degree to New Ashok Nagar. Our team lodges it with the Ministry of External Affairs through the authorised channel, tracks it there, and brings back the original with the apostille sticker on the reverse.
- Handled by INFINITYGRO
Embassy legalisation for non-member countries
Countries outside the convention, chiefly the UAE, Qatar and Kuwait, need MEA attestation first and then a stamp from their own embassy in New Delhi, both of which we arrange. Read our guide to degree certificate attestation for the UAE before you start.
Choose this for: Gulf employment, nursing and medical registration, and sponsors naming State authentication.
SDM route for Degree Certificate Apostille Services Uttar Pradesh, handled end to end by us
Nothing to file in Prayagraj or Lucknow, and one team answerable for the whole file.
- Handled by INFINITYGRO
Notary Public authorisation
A Notary Public on the Delhi roll enters your degree in the register and puts a seal and signature on it. That entry is what the magistrate checks at the next step.
- Handled by INFINITYGRO
SDM attestation in Delhi
The Sub-Divisional Magistrate confirms the notary is genuine and signs the degree, which is the clearance the Ministry looks for. Our step-by-step guide to attestation in Delhi NCR walks through this stage.
- Handled by INFINITYGRO
MEA apostille or embassy legalisation
For a convention country the Ministry applies the sticker and the degree is finished. For the UAE, Qatar or Kuwait it attests the degree instead, and we carry it on to the embassy.
Choose this for: Study abroad, skilled migration, dependant visas and residence files.
Uttar Pradesh authorities and the agent problem
Work from official sources only. Agents in the eastern districts sometimes ask for stamps nobody requires, so get the employer's own written list before paying anyone.
- Read the university name printed on the degree, not the college name, and work from that.
- Make the employer or agent write down every stamp they want, with their letterhead on it.
- Keep the original degree, the marksheets, a passport copy and the offer letter together.
- Post the State-stamped degree to us and we take it from the Ministry stage onwards.
Designations and counters change over time, and several Uttar Pradesh universities have been renamed in recent years. Confirm the present procedure before you hand over originals. Our reference list of Department of Higher Education authentication addresses and our step-by-step HRD attestation guide are updated separately.
Courier from any Uttar Pradesh district
Noida and Ghaziabad are inside the NCR, Lucknow, Kanpur, Agra and Meerut reach Delhi overnight, and the eastern districts route through Varanasi, Prayagraj or Gorakhpur.
Option 1: visit our Delhi office
Much of western Uttar Pradesh is a short drive away, and anyone already in Noida, Ghaziabad or Greater Noida can reach us in under an hour. Our New Ashok Nagar office is beside the Blue Line metro, close to the Anand Vihar and Kaushambi bus arrivals.
- Your papers checked and the route settled while you wait
- A signed receipt naming every original you leave with us
- Ring first so somebody is free to sit with you
Office address:
C – 5 A/2 New Ashok Nagar, Delhi – 110096, IndiaWorking hours: Monday to Saturday, 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM (Sunday closed)
Option 2: courier from Gorakhpur, Varanasi or anywhere else
Speed Post and the private couriers run daily from every district headquarters to Delhi, with the smaller towns of Purvanchal and Bundelkhand routed through the nearest city.
- Message us on WhatsApp for the checklist before you post anything
- Send the degree flat and unlaminated, in a card-backed envelope
- Add a passport photocopy and the signed authorisation letter
- Insist on a written receipt from anyone who takes an original
- Send us the tracking number the same day you despatch
Collect in person or receive by return courier
We WhatsApp you a scan as soon as the apostille is on, so the spelling and dates can be checked before anything moves. The originals then travel back to your Uttar Pradesh address by tracked courier. Nothing in your degree certificate apostille services uttar pradesh file moves without you being told first.
Comparing the two Degree Certificate Apostille Services Uttar Pradesh routes
Use this to place your own file. If an agent and your employer are saying different things, go by the employer's written list.
| Factor | Process 1: State route | Process 2: SDM route |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-authentication by | Designated Government of Uttar Pradesh authority | Notary Public and SDM, Delhi |
| Arranged by | The degree holder | INFINITYGRO |
| MEA stage | INFINITYGRO | INFINITYGRO |
| Embassy legalisation | INFINITYGRO, if needed | INFINITYGRO, if needed |
| Time taken | Longer, because of State and university processing | Shorter, with fewer offices involved |
| Your involvement | Applying in Prayagraj or Lucknow | Office visit or courier only |
| Best for | Gulf sponsors and health councils | Study, skilled migration and residence files |
Region-wise notes across Uttar Pradesh
The process for degree certificate apostille services uttar pradesh is identical statewide. What differs is the affiliating university and where people from each region are heading.
Lucknow and central Uttar Pradesh
The University of Lucknow, AKTU, KGMU, Atal Bihari Vajpayee Medical University, Integral and Babu Banarasi Das make the capital the State's busiest academic centre.
See our Lucknow page for city-level detail.
Kanpur and the industrial belt
CSJM University, IIT Kanpur, HBTU and CSA Agriculture University sit alongside the leather, textile and defence industries.
See our Kanpur page. Engineers and technicians from here move to the Gulf and South East Asia.
Purvanchal: Gorakhpur, Varanasi, Prayagraj and the east
BHU, the University of Allahabad, DDU Gorakhpur and VBS Purvanchal University at Jaunpur serve the eastern districts, which send more workers abroad on emigration clearance than any other part of India.
Files from Azamgarh, Deoria, Ballia, Ghazipur and Basti often carry a school certificate or ITI diploma rather than a degree, and need MEA attestation with an embassy stamp.
Western Uttar Pradesh and the NCR
Chaudhary Charan Singh University at Meerut is one of the largest affiliating universities in the country, and Aligarh Muslim University and Agra University serve the districts around them.
Noida and Ghaziabad add the private universities and an IT and corporate workforce heading to the United States, Canada, Germany and Australia.
Rohilkhand, Bundelkhand and the outer districts
MJP Rohilkhand University at Bareilly, Teerthanker Mahaveer at Moradabad and Bundelkhand University at Jhansi serve the north-west and the south.
Moradabad's brassware and Bareilly's export trade also generate commercial files that travel the same route as degrees.
Everywhere in Uttar Pradesh
We accept documents by courier from every district and return them the same way. Other documents follow the same path: PCC apostille in Uttar Pradesh, birth certificate apostille and marriage certificate apostille.
Countries that accept Degree Certificate Apostille Services Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh sends more workers abroad than any other State, led by the Gulf from the eastern districts, with students and professionals from the NCR and the big cities heading to Canada, the United States, Germany and Australia.
Apostille is enough
An MEA apostille alone satisfies the United States, Canada, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Poland and Singapore. Among the Gulf States it also satisfies Oman, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, which joined the convention in December 2022.
Embassy legalisation is also needed
The UAE, Qatar and Kuwait have not joined, so a job in Dubai, Sharjah, Doha or Kuwait City means two separate stamps: the Ministry attests the degree, and then that country's embassy in New Delhi legalises it. Our notes on Qatar embassy attestation and Kuwait embassy attestation set out what each one asks for.
Membership of the convention changes from time to time. Check the official HCCH status table or ask us before you commit to a route.
Documents needed for Degree Certificate Apostille Services Uttar Pradesh
Courier or bring these to start. Gulf files often involve school and trade certificates too.
- Original degree certificate from your affiliating university, AKTU or a central university
- 10th certificate or ITI diploma, when that is what the sponsor named
- The degree already carrying the State stamp, if you chose Process 1
- Consolidated marksheet or transcript, for council and evaluation files
- Passport copy, showing the photo page and the address page
- Authorisation letter with your signature, from the template we email
- Your Uttar Pradesh return address and mobile number, for the courier back
A quick read of our note on common mistakes during degree certificate apostille saves a surprising amount of trouble.
What degree certificate apostille services uttar pradesh costs
We quote once we have seen the file, because these five things change the figure:
- Which route applies, the SDM one or a degree already stamped by the State
- Whether it stops at the apostille or carries on to an embassy counter
- The destination, since embassy charges vary a great deal
- How many documents travel together, from one degree to a full family set
- Whether you collect in Delhi or want tracked courier in both directions
See the detailed fee structure
Our fees page sets out apostille, attestation and embassy charges document by document. Ask for a written quote for degree certificate apostille services uttar pradesh before you commit to anything.
Agent asking for extra stamps? Get the employer's list in writing first
Send us the details and we will place your degree certificate apostille services uttar pradesh file on the right route. WhatsApp a photo of the degree and your employer or university checklist to +91-8595558517. You will get a straight answer on the route before anything is posted.
FAQs on degree certificate apostille services uttar pradesh
Short answers to the questions we are asked most often about degree certificate apostille services uttar pradesh.
My engineering degree names Lucknow but my college is in Ghaziabad.
That is normal. Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University sits at Lucknow and awards the engineering degrees for most of Uttar Pradesh, so a graduate of a college anywhere in the State holds a degree naming Lucknow. IIT Kanpur, IIT (BHU), MNNIT and the private universities award their own. Verification always goes to the body printed on the certificate.
My degree says UPTU, GBTU or MTU. Is it still valid?
Yes. Those are earlier names of the same State technical university, which became Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University. Nothing needs changing on the certificate. If a foreign employer queries the name, the university's own website records the change, and we can note it in the covering letter that travels with the file.
My degree says Allahabad but the city is now Prayagraj. Does that matter?
No. Several places and universities in Uttar Pradesh have been renamed, Allahabad to Prayagraj and Faizabad to Ayodhya among them, and some State universities have been renamed after public figures. The certificate stays valid under the name printed on it, and the apostille certifies the signature on the document, not the current name of the city.
I am from Azamgarh, Gorakhpur or Deoria with a Gulf job. What do I need?
For the UAE, Qatar or Kuwait your documents need MEA attestation followed by legalisation at that country's embassy in New Delhi, not an apostille, and many sponsors want State authentication first. Files from eastern Uttar Pradesh frequently involve a 10th certificate or an ITI diploma rather than a degree. Saudi Arabia is different, having joined the convention in December 2022.
Is there an apostille counter in Lucknow?
Lucknow is one of the sixteen cities where the Ministry decentralised apostille processing from January 2019, but the Ministry has not accepted documents over the counter from members of the public anywhere in India since 2012. Files are lodged through authorised agencies. That listing changed where processing happens, not who may submit.
An agent in my district has taken my original certificates. Is that normal?
No, and you should not let it pass. Anyone holding your certificates should have given you a receipt naming each one. We issue that receipt for every file, whether you walk into the Delhi office or post the envelope, and we send you a scan of the finished degree before it leaves us.
I hold a Rajarshi Tandon Open University degree.
The stamps are exactly the same. What differs is that overseas employers and credential evaluators read distance degrees more carefully, and some write to Prayagraj to confirm the award before accepting it. Say so when you send the file and we will plan for that delay.
Does INFINITYGRO do HRD attestation or university verification?
No, neither. Our work is the Notary and SDM stage, the MEA apostille, MEA attestation and embassy legalisation. If the destination insists on a State stamp or on verification by AKTU or your own university, that part is yours to arrange, and we pick the file up from the Ministry onwards.
What does degree certificate apostille services Uttar Pradesh cost?
There is no flat rate. One BHU degree going to Germany is not the same job as three documents from Ballia going to the UAE with an embassy stamp on each. Route, document count, destination embassy and courier all move the figure. The fees page shows the structure; WhatsApp us for your own number.
Start your Uttar Pradesh file this week
Lucknow, Kanpur, Varanasi, Prayagraj, Gorakhpur, Meerut or Noida: tell us the university, the destination and the deadline, then courier your documents and we will begin degree certificate apostille services uttar pradesh the same day they arrive.
+91-8595558517Disclaimer: INFINITYGRO is a private document facilitation service, not a government authority. Only the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, issues apostilles, and embassy legalisation is carried out by the respective embassies. We do not undertake State authentication or university verification. Official procedures and destination requirements change, so please confirm current rules with the receiving authority.