Before a child can be accepted by any school in Dubai, it is the parents' responsibility to provide a Transfer Certificate (TC) from the child's previous school, as required by the UAE's Ministry of Education.  If a Transfer Certificate is not provided, it will not be legally possible to register a child at a school or with the Ministry of Education.

Transfer Certificates are required for all students joining from another school. Special rules apply depending on where this school is located:

For students coming from countries other than the USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Western Europe, this TC must be attested by:

• the Ministry of Education or its equivalent from the country of TC origin
• the UAE Embassy in the country of TC origin
• the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the country where the TC was issued

Click here to view a sample Transfer Certificate that schools outside of the UAE can use to supply all the relevant details.  The certificate must be in English and printed on original, school headed notepaper.  It must be signed by the Principal and stamped with the school's official stamp.

Uptown School must first supply an acceptance letter in Arabic in order to obtain a TC from the current school. The document provided by that school will be an original TC, in the standard UAE format, in Arabic, signed and stamped by the previous school.

This will be an original TC, in the standard UAE format, in Arabic, signed and stamped by the previous school and attested by the Ministry of Education in that Emirate.