Legalisation makes documents suitable for use in another country. The process often involves several different steps. Documents that may need to be legalised include education documents, civil status documents, birth certificates, court orders etc.
Legalisation shows that:
The steps you must take to have a document legalised vary by the country. It depends on the agreements made between the country where you want to use the document and the country that issued it.
In many countries, you can have your document legalised with an apostille. This is a simplified form of legalisation. An authority in Country A legalises the document with a type of stamp or sticker, known as an ‘apostille’. After this, no more steps are necessary. You can use the document in all the countries that are party to the Apostille Convention.
If one or both of the countries involved in your process is not a party to the Apostille Convention, then legalisation often involves two steps:
You are not required to personally have the document legalized. Someone else may do it for you. It is not necessary to authorize that person to do so, so we can do that for you.
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