Apostille Services 

The Hague Convention of October 5, 1961, "abolishes the requirement of legalization for foreign public documents and facilitates public documents executed in one state to be circulated in another."  
 
The international agreement envisages replacement of cumbersome and costly formalities of a full legalisation process with the issuance of an Apostille (also called Apostille Certificate). Apostilles can be issued by a competent authority designated by the state on whose territory the public document has been executed.  
 
Apostille stickers are issued on certificates including birth and death, affidavits, powers of attorney, marriage certificates and educational documents like degrees, diplomas , matriculation and secondary level certificates. However , commercial documents are excluded from the purview of the Apostille Convention.  
 
As per the procedure, all documents should be first authenticated by the designated agencies in the state from where the document has been issued. In case of personal documents, the home or general administration department of the state concerned is the designated authority.  
 
In case of educational documents , state governments have opened Regional Authentication Centres for initial attestation. Documents attested by these authorities then need to be presented to ministry for issue of Apostilles .  
 
Meanwhile, the MEA branch Secretariat in Chennai has completed a year since it was inaugurated. Attestation of educational documents , complaints regarding deserted wives and unpaid salaries in Gulf countries and repatriation of bodies of those who died abroad were handled by the branch secretariat.

Apostille SYSTEM FOLLOWING COUNTRIES

Ministry of External Affairs

New Delhi

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A

ALBANIA                                                       NEWZLAND

ANDORA                                                       NIUE

ANTGUA & BARBUDA                                NORWAY

ARGENTINA                                                 P

AUSTRALIA                                                 POIAND

AZERBAIJAN                                                PANAMA

AUSTRIA                                                       PORTUGAL

B                                                                     R

BARBODS                                                      ROMANIA

BARAMAS                                                     RUSSIAN FEDERATION

BELARUS                                                       S

BELGIAM                                                     SAMOA

BELIZE                                                           SANMARINO

BELARUS                                                       SAINT LUCIA

BELGIAM                                                       SAINT VINCENT & THE GRENDINES

BELIZE                                                           SERBIA

BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA                        SOUTH AFRICA

BULGARIA                                                   SLOVAKIA

BOSTWANA                                                  SLOVENIA

BRUNE DARUSSALAM                                SPAIN

C                                                                     SURINAME

CHINA (PEOPLE REPUBLIC)                    SWEDEN

COOK ISLAND                                             SWAZILAND

COLOMBIA                                                   SWITZERLAND

CROATIA                                                       SEYCHELLES

CYPRUS                                                         T

CZEG (REPUBLIC)                                        THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC

D                                                                     TONGA

DENMARK                                                   TRINIDAD & TOBAGO

DOMINCIA                                                    TURKY

E                                                                      U

ECUADOR                                                     UKRAIN

EISALVADOR                                                UNITED STATE OF AMERICA

ESTONIA                                                       UNITED KINGDOM OF GRATE BRITAIN

F                                                                      V

FIJI                                                                  VENEZUELA

FINLAND

FRANCE

G

GERMANY

GREECE

GRENDA

GEORGIA

H

HONDURAS

HUNGAEY

I

ICELANDE

INDIA

IRELAND

ISRAIEL

ITALY

J

JAPAN

K

KAZAKHISTHAN

KORIEA

L

LATIVA

LIBERIA

LESOTHO

LECHTEIN

LUXEMBERGE

M.                                                                  

MALTA                      

MALAVI

MARSHAL ISLAND

MAVRTIUS

MEXICO

MOLDOVO (REPUBLIC)

MONACO

MONTENGEGNO

N

NAMBIA

NETHERLAND

NEWZLAND

NIUE

NORWAY

• Apostille need 10 Working Days
• Urgent Service Available
• Need Consent State Home Department

Birth Certificate, Marriage, PCC, Passport Copy, Educational Certificates