Oman's E-Attestation Service Hits 66 Countries as Phase 14 Ends

Oman's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has completed the final scheduled batch of the fourteenth phase of its Electronic Attestation Service, extending the digital document-authentication platform to Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Brunei Darussalam as of August 17, 2026. The rollout, confirmed on the ministry's official site, fm.gov.om, brings the total number of countries and territories covered by the service to 66, according to the ministry's own live coverage list.

🔑 Key Takeaways

• Phase 14 of Oman's Electronic Attestation Service wrapped up on August 17, 2026 with its sixth and final batch: Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Brunei Darussalam.
• The phase was rolled out in six two-week batches starting June 5, 2026, adding 24 countries in total, per the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' official announcement.
• The service, run jointly with Oman Post, now lists 66 countries and territories on the ministry's official coverage page, up from roughly 40 a year ago.
• The platform lets residents and citizens authenticate documents, such as educational, commercial and civil papers, online instead of visiting an Omani embassy or consulate abroad.
• It was first activated for the GCC (UAE, Bahrain and Kuwait) on January 23, 2025, as reported by the Oman Observer, before expanding in successive phases.

📜 What Changed on August 17

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs' announcement of "further expansion" of the Electronic Attestation Service, published on fm.gov.om on June 7, 2026, laid out a six-stage schedule for Phase 14, spreading 24 new destinations across the summer rather than activating them all at once. The final stage, effective today, brings Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Brunei Darussalam online.

The ministry's live attestation coverage page now lists all four of those countries alongside the rest of Phase 14's additions, confirming the rollout is complete on schedule.

🌍 Six Batches, 24 New Countries

Instead of one large expansion, the ministry staggered Phase 14 in two-week intervals. Here is the full schedule, as published by the ministry:

With this final batch live, the ministry's coverage list, published at fm.gov.om, spans all five GCC states plus 61 other countries and territories across the Gulf, Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania.

🖥️ How the Service Actually Works

The Electronic Attestation Service was first switched on for UAE, Bahrain and Kuwait on January 23, 2025, according to the Oman Observer, in a joint project between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and state-owned Oman Post. Rather than requiring a personal visit to an Omani embassy or consulate, applicants in a covered country submit their documents, such as educational certificates, commercial papers or civil-status records, through Oman Post's online portal. Documents are typically collected and returned by courier once the ministry has processed the attestation, cutting out the need for in-person consular appointments entirely.

Each expansion phase since then, from the GCC through Egypt, Jordan, several European and Asian markets, and now Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Brunei, has followed the same pattern: batches of new countries added on a rolling schedule as the ministry and Oman Post extend logistics and processing capacity abroad.

🔗 Part of a Wider Digitisation Push

The attestation rollout lands alongside other recent moves to digitise Omani public services. Just two days earlier, Oman's National Addressing System went live in Al Saadah, Salalah, another example of a government platform quietly expanding coverage area by area rather than in one national switch-on. Both initiatives reflect the same operating model favoured by several Omani digital projects this year: build the platform once, then extend its footprint in scheduled, publicly tracked phases.

The attestation service also sits within Oman's broader digitisation of consular and administrative touchpoints, an effort documented in detail in an OmanVision2040 report on the digitisation of 2,277 government services, which tracks how identity, health and civil services are being moved online under Vision 2040's digital transformation targets.

🇴🇲 Why This Matters for Oman

Document attestation sounds bureaucratic, but it is a real friction point for Omani citizens studying, working or doing business abroad, and for foreign residents and companies whose paperwork needs Omani government sign-off. Central Asia and Eastern Europe, home to the newest four countries in the list, are also regions where Oman has been building economic ties, including sovereign investment activity in Kazakhstan reported earlier this year. A working digital attestation channel in those markets removes a small but real barrier for Omani professionals, students and traders operating there.

More broadly, the steady, dated, phase-by-phase expansion of a single government platform, rather than a one-off ceremonial launch, is the kind of incremental digital government delivery that Vision 2040's digital transformation targets depend on. It is unglamorous work, but it is measurable: 66 countries covered, on a published schedule, with the final 2026 batch landing exactly on the date the ministry said it would.