Apostille Translation
What is apostille?
Apostille refers to “certification” in French language and “legalization” in English language.
Rules relating to apostilles are stated in 1961 Hague (La Haye) Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalization for Foreign Public Documents. See if related county is Hague Convention countries listing (HCCH).
When do you need apostille?
You may need an apostille if you are making an application to an official agency in another country to get married, request citizenship or permit, new birth certificate or passport, obtain a divorce decree, and other similar documents.
You do not need apostille if you need translation for immigration (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services – USCIS, formerly Immigration and Naturalization Service – INS), U.S. Passport Agency, Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV), or any other agencies and organizations if you are already in the United States.
Where do you get your apostille?
Please note that statements above are for informational purposes and not a legal advice. Please check with foreign government agency that requested certified translation from you whether notarization and apostile are required. In general, notarization is required if apostille is required.
In the United States, secretary of state in your state issues this document. In some cases, consulate office of foreign government’s embassy provides apostille. Again, please read the instructions of the foreign government agency very carefully to save your time and money.
Who obtains apostille?
You, as an applicant, apply to have apostille. We complete your translations and certify your documents. If notarization is required, then we can have it notarized by a third-party notary public. It is a good idea to obtain your apostille first as translation of it along with your other documents (birth certificate, marriage license, diploma, transcript, etc.) will save time.
Certified apostille translation from following languages:
Albanian Amharic Arabic Azerbaijani Belarusian Bengali Bosnian Bulgarian Burmese Cambodian Chinese Croatian Czech Danish Dari Dutch Estonian Farsi Finnish Flemish French Georgian German Greek Gujarati Haitian Creole Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Indonesian Italian Japanese Kannada Kazakh Korean Kyrgyz Laotian Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malay Malayalam Marathi Moldovan Mongolian Norwegian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Pushto-Pashto Romanian Russian Singhalese Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swahili Swedish Tagalog Tajik Tamil Thai Turkish Turkmen Ukrainian Urdu Uzbek Vietnamese
