Apostille Document

Apostille Procedure in India

Apostille Document is an authentication process, which is necessary for public certificates

to be internationally recognized. If anyone looking for going to visit foreign countries, that

time public documents should be verified from the highest authority. This procedure takes

lots of time to complete the procedure. Because of this reason, the apostille was introduced

to simplify the process and to speed up the process. But apostille can do only those people

who are going to those countries which are part of the Hague Convention.

What is Apostille?

Apostille is a Process to Certify, authenticate and Complete the legalization procedure.

Apostille is a document proving formality that aims

to simplify the legalization of documents to verify

their authenticity in order to be valid internationally. When you

apostille a document, an apostille sticker or a stamp can be obtained from the

authorized department. The sticker obtained from the highest authority is

system generated unique recognition number and which

mentioned in the back of documents. This stores all the records

online and allows the concerned authorities to check the authenticity

in a more convenient manner. After this application of the sticker from the MEA,

there usually is no need for any added certification from the embassy.

What is a certificate apostille?

Certificate apostille is a process of apostille document or verifies documents for getting a stamp or sticker from the authorized legalization department. We can do different types of certificate apostille. Certificate apostille is required when anyone looking for going to foreign countries for all sorts of reasons,obtaining employment visa or work visa, applying for temporary or permanent residency, or for pursuing education on student visa, carrying out deals for business expansion e.g. importing or exporting products this requirement is mandatory for the countries which are part of the Hague convention.

Steps involved in Document Apostille Process:

1)Notary Attestation : -

Notary attestation is the procedure of legalization which is done

before the certificate attestation procedure. Notary attestation

procedure is acquired from the local notary, which is obtained in

the form signature. Notary attestation is the most essential and

first step for the law-related authentication process.

2)Home Department Attestation:-

Home Department is a state-level organization that certifies the

personal documents.

3)HRD Attestation:

HRD or Human Resource Department is a department of the state

that solely certifies the educational documents.

4)SDM Attestation:

Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) is an alternative for the State attestation

in some instances.

5)Chamber of Commerce Attestation:

The Chamber of Commerce (CoC) is a local business association and the

first step in the verification of your commercial documents before

the legalization of MEA.

6)MEA Attestation:
The MEA is the arm of the central government that manages foreign

affairs which will provide the apostille sticker and MEA

stamp as per the requirement.

Be it Apostille or Attestation, both the terms basically

mean legalization or authentication of the documents.

The process differs as different countries have different

requirements and procedures for the concerned documents.