Checking what Abroadocs will search for

As soon as a search can run — usually with Abroadocs's first reply — you'll see, under that reply, a card headed "What I'll search for". Abroadocs's optional questions about form, deadline, volume or delivery don't hold it back: you can answer them or press Find providers straight away. Only a fact the search can't run without keeps the card back until you answer. The card shows:

• The services you asked for — and only those. If a closely related service might help (a translation alongside an apostille, for example), Abroadocs asks you once, as a question. Answer "yes" to add it. Abroadocs never adds a service you didn't ask for.
• The details each search will use, such as "Academic diploma · United Kingdom → Spain".
• Anything Abroadocs assumed — for example the language of a Brazilian document — marked as an assumption. Where a translation is certified rather than sworn because the country has no sworn translators, the card says so.

To correct a detail, press Change beside it: the start of a sentence appears in the message box for you to finish and send. Or simply tell Vlad — "it's actually from Ireland". To drop a service, remove it from the card or say so.

When the card looks right, press Find providers. If Abroadocs has a caution for you, it is written under Abroadocs's message, and the button reads Continue and find providers: pressing it records that you have read the note. This is not a commitment to anything. It only tells Abroadocs what to search for, and you can change it and search again as often as you like.

A caution always says what to do next. A note about your deadline, for example, says that the usual time for this kind of work may be short for your date, and then: tell Vlad if the date can move, or search now — after the search each provider shows the turnaround it publishes, and Vlad says which of them fit your date. Vlad never states how long an authority will take: nobody here knows that, so it is never guessed.