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When a child has been admitted to a school in Dubai, he or she must be registered with the KHDA (Knowledge and Human Development Authority) before the joining date. If your child starts school before you receive your Emirates ID, we still need to register them manually (with a passport copy) and the transfer certificate, and then parents must submit the Emirates IDs later to update the KHDA system. The processing time for residency visas and Emirates IDs can take up to 4 weeks to get the sponsor’s visa followed by another 4 weeks to get a dependent visa and then the Emirates ID. Once the EIDs for parents and students are issued please send the soft copies to registrar@dubaibritishschool.ae.

Steps to Complete the Process

For registration, we will need your child’s Emirates ID Copy and one parent’s Emirates ID copy with the parent’s email and phone number to register the student’s details with KHDA. Please note that the Transfer certificate will also be required. Please send these to our Registrar, Dina Hmidan – registrar@dubaibritishschool.ae.
If transferring from local school in the UAE: Students transferring from schools within Dubai, or another Emirates can be registered with the student’s leaving certificate and EIDs copies.

Transfer Certificates

Before a child can be accepted by any school in Dubai, it is the parent’s responsibility to provide a Transfer Certificate (TC) from the child’s previous school, as required by the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA) . If a Transfer Certificate is not provided, it will not be legally possible to register a child at a school or with the KHDA.

Transfer Certificate Guidelines

As per the Ministry of Education guidelines, all students must submit a Transfer (or Leaving) Certificate from their current school before joining a new school. The requirements are as follows:

Students from FS1 to Year 13 coming from another school within Dubai must submit a KHDA Leaving Certificate.

Students joining Year 3 and above from another Emirate or from overseas must submit a Transfer Certificate (TC) before starting school.

Please see the below for details of the attestation required.

Name of student:
Date of birth (dd/mm/yy)
Place of birth
Nationality
Last Year / Grade attended
Date of leaving (dd/mm/yy)
Passed and promoted to
Currently in Year / Grade ^{(if transferring midway through the academic year)}
Curriculum followed
12 or 13 Year school system

Signature of Headmaster / Principal/ Director

Name
Signature
Date (dd/mm/yy)
School stamp

Please see below the stamp and signature requirements per country of origin:

If the student joins DBSEH from	These signatures/attestations should be included in the transfer certificate:
Another emirate in the UAE or any GCC country	School principal's signature and school stamp. Attestation by the Educational Authority in that Emirate or attestation by the Ministry of Education in the GCC country.
North America, Western Europe, and Australia	Signature of the principal and stamp of the school.
Middle East (excluding the UAE), South and Central America, Asia, Russia and former Russian States, Eastern Europe, Africa, and New Zealand	School principal's signature and school stamp. Attestation by the Ministry of Education in the country of origin. Attestation by UAE Consulate or Embassy in the origin country OR by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the UAE.