The UAE has changed their requirements in respect of educational certificates with immediate effect.
The change is that all educational certificates have to be notarised on the reverse page of the document itself. The Apostille stamp also now needs to be issued on the reverse page.
All notarisations have to be carried out on the original or a copy of the certificate before the consulate will proceed to legalise. No bundling will be allowed. No separate notarial certificate will be allowed. If you require your copy/original Degree Certificate and relating Transcript then these need to be notarised and apostilled as separate documents.