I've had two sets of documentation which we submitted for attestation at the start of May 2022. The attestation of the document in the UK (a degree certificate from a UK university) seemed to have been completed quickly enough but wasn't forwarded to the UAE to complete the process until I specifically asked for it to be done. The second set of documents for attestation has taken many twists and turns partly due to the local (Kenyan) government authorities asking for additional information during the process. My experience is that I've had to make phone calls and to write plenty of emails to Vital Consular and their Kenyan partners in order to follow up the status of my documents. My family and I hoped to have our UAE visas in order to travel by 10th August but the delays in getting our documents ready mean that our new employers are still waiting for us to get certain documents stamped in order to submit our visa and work permit applications. There could definitely have been better communication from Vital Consular on the progress of the process in order to have time to handle the inevitable curveball which government agencies always present in such cases. Sadly we seem likely to face a delayed entry into the UAE, which defeats the purpose behind us starting the process early in a bid to ensure a smooth transition to a new country. Given the reputation of the company, we expected better information flow. It didn't help that we kept dealing with different people in the organisation and it felt like we had to call the UK office to follow up emails we had written. We now have very tight timelines to get the UAE stamps on our documents which should now all be hopefully with the Vital Certificates Dubai office. We can only hope and pray that the processing of the UAE MOFA stamps on our documents will be way faster than our previous experience in order to facilitate the visa/work permit process