Online Apostille Services

Online Apostille Services

Are you traveling or relocating out of the country? Most documents headed abroad need an apostille before a foreign office will accept them, and most delays come from doing the steps in the wrong order. My Online Apostille Services start by finding out exactly what your destination wants, and when a document needs a notary first, my Online Apostille Services include that step too.

I'm Javid Owji, a Florida notary in Orlando, and I arrange apostilles for documents from all 50 states. If you'd like to see the notarization step first, here's Remote Online Notary. Then call or text 407-252-5276 with the document and the country, and I'll tell you the path.

An apostille is a one-page certificate attached by a government office. It confirms that the official or notary who signed your document had the authority to sign it. It doesn't confirm that the contents are true, and it doesn't translate anything. Countries that joined the Hague Apostille Convention accept that single certificate. Most of Europe, Latin America and much of Asia are members, and one apostille from the right state office is usually all you need. Non-Hague countries are different. The document goes through U.S. authentication, then legalization at that country's embassy. It's slower, with different forms, and I'll map it out before you send anything.

The office that issues the apostille depends on who signed the document, not on where you live. Florida notarizations and Florida-issued records go to the Florida Department of State. A birth certificate from Ohio or a diploma notarized in Texas goes to that state's Secretary of State, and I arrange those too. Federal documents, such as FBI background checks, go to the U.S. Department of State, not to any state office.

The documents I handle most fall into a few families. Family records include birth, marriage, death and divorce certificates, and if I Wedding Officiant Services and your spouse's country wants the marriage record, we start with a certified copy from the county clerk. School and work papers, such as diplomas, transcripts, background checks and employment letters, sometimes need a notarized copy or statement first, and for Online Document Notarization I do that step too.

Property and money are the third family. Remote Notary Services often means a notarized deed or closing package going one way and an apostilled document coming back. Authority to act is the fourth: a Notarizing a Power of Attorney in Florida is one of the most common apostilled documents I see. It's notarized in Florida, then apostilled for the destination.

Most rejections are predictable, which means most are avoidable. The usual culprits are a plain photocopy where a certified copy was required, a certified copy that's too old for the destination's rules, a notarization done in one state and sent to another state's office, a notarial certificate with missing or incomplete wording, an apostille sent to a non-Hague country, and a translation notarized before the original was authenticated.

You don't have to come in person. Send the document by mail or courier, and do any notarization Virtual Notary Services. If you're local and prefer to hand it over, we can meet. A commissioned notary's signature is what the state office certifies, so it helps that I'm Online Notary Public who can check the certificate wording before anything is submitted.

Each office sets its own fee per document, and my handling is separate. Online Notary Services for notarization and handling are quoted before you send anything.

Birth, death and marriage records have their own rules for getting replacement vital documents, so order those first, because they take the longest. The Hague Apostille Convention lists member countries, and the State Department explains authentications and apostilles. Share the document type, the issuing state and the destination through the Contact, or call or text 407-252-5276.