Certificatenumber 1 was issued by the State of New York to Frank Broaker in 1896 and it only took three years for certificatenumber 143 to be issued to Christine Ross.
She said the number of UKBA operations had escalated after the obligation on foreign nationals to apply for a certificate of approval from the Home Office was removed a couple of years ago.
The certificate itself contains the issuer's name (for example, Chase Manhattan), a serial number, a signature algorithm ID, an expiration date, an employee's public key and unique identifiers for both the issuer and the employee.
These fellowships, tenable in a selected number of universities in the Czech Republic, are open to secondary school leavers holding a recognized certificate.