How To Authenticate Transcript and Diploma in the Philippines (Retrieved from http://pinoycruiser.blogspot.kr/2011/09/how-to-authenticate-transcript-and.html?m=1)

If you plan to work out of the country, some employers are requiring authenticated copies of your transcript and diploma. To be guided accordingly, I would like to share what I did on those documents for red ribbon. Notice that the authenticated documents have that red ribbon on top, that is why the finished product is popularly known as the "red ribbon".

Step 1. Go to your university registrar’s office. Even if you have your original copies of diploma and transcript, you still need the certifications from the university head for authentication to DFA. (Other universities require CHED recommendation.) For PUP graduates, transactions take place at the south wing. You will be given a clearance form which you have to accomplish by going to the audit, legal and accounting departments for signature.

Step 2. Bring 1 photocopy of your transcript, your diploma, and 2 pcs 2x2 ID picture with white background upon returning to your Alma Mater. In case you forget, there are computer shops and stalls inside the campus premises which will surely be of great help. As for the fees, If I remember it right, I paid a total of Php 1200 for the certified true copies of transcript and diploma, plus the certification of authentication to DFA. Additional fees apply, if you want the processing to be expedited.

Step 3. On the date of release, your university staff will give you a sealed envelope which contains the certified true copies of the documents requested with stamps from the registrar and certification of authentication to DFA. Remember that only DFA officers should open that envelope. To go to that branch, here is he location map.

Step 4. Once you have that sealed envelope, you may now proceed to the DFA authentication office in Roxas Blvd., Pasay City. (The old branch near the Cuneta Astrodome and not the one in Macapagal.)

Note: DFA security guards are strict. Only the person doing the authentication will be allowed to enter. If you have someone with you, they will be asked to wait for you somewhere outside the DFA premises. There is Jollibee and 7-eleven at block corner, safe and nice waiting areas.

Step 5.Fill out the application form. Guards there will be giving you that blue form. (Remember to always bring your own pen so that you will not bother other applicants from borrowing theirs.) Put the number of documents you need to authenticate. (Remember to count the number of documents and not the pages of those documents. In this case, 2 - your transcript and diploma.)

Step 6. Prepare any valid ID when submitting your documents. Pay appropriate authentication fee at the cashier.

Note: Cashiers want a fast queue that they are requiring exact payment. Authentication fee is Php 100 per document.

Step 8. Return the duplicate copy of the receipt at the processing window. The other copy is yours to keep for claiming on the release date noted.

Step 9. Here comes the release date. Let's say you already got your red ribboned/ authenticated copies of those documents, you are not yet good to go. You should then proceed to the DHL stall (located near the exit beside the processing window) and send that authenticated document to the embassy of that country that you will be working for. As I remember, I paid a total of Php 2700 for my documents to be sent to UAE embassy in Makati City.

Note: You have no choice but to send it through this courier because this embassy is not accepting in-person processing.

Step 10. Make sure to have the receipt with you. After stamping at the embassy, this will be delivered to your address in 5-7 business days.

After receiving your red ribboned documents, you have an option to bring it with you inside your luggage when you go to that country you plan to work for or send it to anyone there in advance because others say that immigration officers are not allowing tourist visa holders to apply for work in that country they wish to go to and putting this authenticated documents in your luggage is not a very good idea. You do not want to be one of those off loaded passengers. My suggestion then is to go ahead and ask others who have been to where you plan to go to and practice always being safe than sorry.