Apostille/Apostille Attestation-Apostille Attestation Services-Degree-Marriage-Birth-Personal-Commercial documents Apostille Attestation in India--TN

Apostille/Apostille Attestation-Apostille Attestation Services-Degree-Marriage-Birth-Personal-Commercial documents Apostille Attestation in India--TN-APOSTILLE / ATTESTATION !!!

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Apostille:India is a member of the Hague Convention of October 5, 1961, abolishing the requirement of legalization of foreign public documents. Apostille is acceptable in 98 member-countries of the Convention. Apostille is done for personal documents like birth/death/marriage certificates, Affidavits, Power of Attorney, etc. and educational documents like degree, diploma, matriculation and secondary level certificates etc.

Procedure:All original documents requiring attestation or Apostille should be first authenticated by the designated authorities of the State from where the document has been issued. The Ministry of External Affairs legalises the documents on the basis of the signature of the designated signing authorities of the State Government/Chambers of Commerce; hence it does not take responsibility of the contents of the documents. In case of personal documents, Home/General Administration Department of the concerned State Government are the designated authorities. In case of educational documents, the documents should first be authenticated by the Education Department of the concerned State Government. Commercial Documents are to be pre-authenticated by the respective Chambers of Commerce. The details of the Regional Authentication Centres (RACs) in the States from where the documents should first be authenticated are given below.As a result to outsourcing of receipt and delivery of documents for attestation/apostille with effect from July 2012, no document from individuals is accepted at the Ministry of External Affairs Counter at CPV Division, Patiala House Annexe, New Delhi.

Normal Attestation is done for all the countries who are not the member of Hague Convention and where apostille is not accepted.

The Hague Conference has currently 98 Members where any type of document can be Apostilled.

A

Albania	Andorra	Antigua and Barbuda	Argentina	Armenia

Australia	Austria	Azerbaijan

B

Bahamas	Bahrain	Barbados	Belarus	Belgium

Belize	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Botswana	Brunei

C

Cape Verde	Colombia	Cook Islands	Costa Rica	Croatia

Cyprus	Czech Republic

D

Kingdom of Denmark	Dominica	Dominican Republic

E

Ecuador	El Salvador	Estonia

F

Fiji	Finland	France

G

Georgia	Germany	Greece	Grenada

H

Honduras	Hong Kong	Hungary

I

Iceland	India	Ireland	Israel	Italy

J		K

Japan		Kazakhstan	Kyrgyzstan

L

Latvia	Lesotho	Liberia	Liechtenstein	Lithuania

Luxembourg

M

Macau	Macedonia	Malawi	Malta	Marshall Islands

Mauritius	Mexico	Moldova	Monaco	Mongolia

Montenegro

N

Namibia	Kingdom of the Netherlands	New Zealand	Nicaragua	Niue

Norway

O	P

Oman	Panama	Peru	Poland	Portugal

R

Romania	Russia

S

Saint Kitts and Nevis	Saint Lucia	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Samoa	San Marino

São Tomé and Príncipe	Serbia	Seychelles	Slovakia	Slovenia

South Africa	South Korea	Spain	Suriname	Swaziland

Sweden	Switzerland

T

Tonga	Trinidad and Tobago	Turkey

U

Ukraine	United Kingdom	United States	Uruguay	Uzbekistan

V

Vanuatu	Venezuela

Procedure for Apostille of EDUCATIONAL DOCUMENTS

Authenticated by the designated authorities of the State or Sub-Divisional Magistrate.

Apostille Sticker from Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).

Procedure for Apostille of NON EDUCATIONAL DOCUMENTS

Sub-Divisional Magistrate.

Apostille sticker from Ministy of External Affairs (MEA).

Turnaround time for attestation -5 days ( Approx )

APOSTILLE / ATTESTATION

Attestation of Personal/Educational & commercial certificates is the act of witnessing a certificate by authorised person/persons/Departments/authorities with their official seal and signature. This attestation also confirms that, the specified certificate has been issued by that mentioned department and Seal and signature on that particular birth certificate is authentic.

ATTESTATION FROM MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS, NEW DELHI

Attestation/Apostille from MEA can be done after attestation is done from relevant state authorities. For Example in case of Educational Documents document has to be attested from concerned state education department first. In case of personal documents, document needs to be attested from concerned home department prior to MEA attestation.

APOSTILLE

An apostille is a certificate that authenticates the origin of personal, educational or commercial documents.Apostille can only be issued for documents issued in one country party to the Apostille convention and that are to be used in another country which is also a party to the convention. Essentially, Apostille is an international attestation that is acceptable in about 92 countries, and most of the western world recognises Apostille.

For the list of countries that require documents to be apostilled, please refer to the following link:

http://www.hcch.net/index_en.php?act=states.listing

Type of Documents -Documents can be divided into three categories for Attestation/Apostille:

Apostille / Attestation in Educational Documents -