16 February 2017
Certificate of Service needs to be uploaded on the examination portal and not required to be sent to Institute. If your photo and signature, if it is not appearing in the examination portal, then you are required to send the PDF. See the relevant extract from ICAI's announcement -
"Candidates whose photographs and signatures are not in exam data base, i.e. those whose photographs and signatures are not displayed on the screen, are required to fill the examination application form, take a print out of the profile form, affix their photographs and signatures at the designated place, get the form attested by a Chartered Accountant or Gazetted officer or Head of an educational institution and submit the same at the designated offices of the Institute on or before the specified" dates indicated on the portal. However, such candidates are also required to scan and upload their Certificate of Service, on the portal."