Apostille

The Hague Conference on Private International Law abolished the requirement of repeated Legalization of foreign public documents by the governments of different countries. It specified the modalities through which a document issued in one of the signatory countries can be certified for legal purposes in all the other signatory states. Such a certification is called an Apostille. Apostille stickers are affixed by competent authorities designated by the government of a country which is party to the convention. The list of the countries joining the Apostille Treaty may be seen at Website www.hcch.net and is also reproduced below

A	B	C	D	E
Albania  Andora  Antigua  Argentina Armenia Australia  Austria Azerbaijan	Bahamas Bahrain Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Bosnia& Herzegovina Botswana Brunei Darussalam	Cape Verde Colombia Cook Islands Costa Rica Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic	Denmark Dominica  Dominican Republic	Ecuador El Salvador Estonia
F	G	H	I	J
Fiji Finland France	Germany Greece Grenada Georgia	Honduras Hong Kong Hungary	Iceland India Ireland Israel Italy	Japan
K	L	M	N	0
Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan	Latvia Lesotho Liberia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxemburg	Macau Macedonia Malawi Malta Marshal Island Mauritius Mexico Moldova (Republic) Monaco Montenegro	Namibia Netherland New Zealand Niue Norway	Oman P Poland Peru Panama Portugal
R	S	T	U	V
Romania Russian	Saint Kitts Saint Lucia Saint Vincent Samoa San Marino  Sao Tome Serbia Seychelles Slovakia Slovenia South Africa South Korea Spain Suriname Swaziland Sweden Switzerland	Tonga Trinidad & Tobago Turkey	Ukraine UK USA Uruguay Uzbekistan	Vanuatu Venezuela

Only original documents duly authenticated by the designated authorities of the State Governments or SDM Delhi are Apostilled by the Ministry of External Affairs. Apostille is done on the reverse side of the original document.

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