Apostille Attestation Process

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An Apostille Attestation is term for legal verification, which comes from the French language means certify or authenticate. Apostille refers to authenticating the seals and signatures of officials on public documents. Those Documents are acceptable in all nations those are members of Hague Convention. It Abolishes the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents. The apostille ensures that documents issued in one signatory country will be taken as valid in another signatory country. In other words it is a valid proof that you carry to a destination country saying whoever issued this document is legally allowed to issue the documents and the contents in the documents are authentic. Apostille is an international certification comparable to a notarisation in domestic law, and normally supplements a local notarisation of the document.
India is a member of the Hague Convention from 2005. Apostille is acceptable in nearly 117 countries of the Convention. As per the Convention any document Apostilled in any member country is acceptable in all the other 116 member-countries. Due to this, the process of attestation is simplified. Now it is unnecessary, to attested documents in each or for each of the countries separately. This makes it easier for peoples and organisations to have public documents legalised for foreign use.

For all documents those have originated in India, Apostille attestation is done by MEA (Ministry of External Affairs).

Steps for Apostille Attestation:

         Step 1: Notary Attestation: It is the first step of attestation. It is carried out at the local level by the authorized government officials.


     
  Step 2: Home Department Attestation: Verification for documents is performed by the State Home Department. 
              SDM Attestation: The Sub-Divisional Magistrate is a variant or alternative for the Home Department. Sub-Divisional Magistrate is autonomous of the main state government and performs individually.

 

Step 3: MEA Apostille Attestation: In this step, the MEA provides a sticker which contains the name and other details of the applicant. At times, along with the apostille sticker, an MEA stamp is also obligated on the documents, especially for commercial documents. It is the final step of apostille and is performed by the central government.

apostille attestation stamp
apostille attestation stamp by mea

 

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