Apostille

While you are seeking for higher education, employment or work permit, resident permit or planning to start new business in any foreign country you might need your necessary documents legalized from Ministry of External Affairs –New Delhi (MEA) and that legalization process is called Apostille. Apostille is a sticker or a stamp which is affixed at the back side of your requested original documents with a machine generated unique identification number. Apostille is acceptable in all member-countries of The Hague Convention and Since 2005, India is a member of The Hague Convention of October 5, 1961 that abolished the requirement of legalization of foreign public documents.

Apostille is a sticker or a stamp which is affixed at the back side of your requested original documents with a machine generated unique identification number

Apostille is acceptable in all member-countries of The Hague Convention and Since 2005, India is a member of The Hague Convention of October 5, 1961 that abolished the requirement of legalization of foreign public documents

Why Apostille Required

To Apply for Long Term Visa

To Get Work & Resident Permit

To Prove Authenticity of Document

To Prove Genuineness of Company

Apostille Country List

Countries That Accept Apostille: Following are the countries that have signed The Hague Convention and are member of it. As they are signatory members of the Apostille treaty they do not require a compulsory MEA general attestation and demand MEA to issue Apostille to the documents intended to be used in their country.

Albania Andorra Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Brazil Bulgaria Burkina Faso Canada Chile China, People's Republic of Costa Rica Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Ecuador Egypt Estonia European Union Finland France Georgia

Germany Greece Hungary Iceland India Ireland Israel Italy Japan Jordan Korea, Republic of Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Malaysia Malta Mauritius Mexico Monaco Montenegro Morocco Netherlands New Zealand Norway Oman Panama Paraguay Peru

Philippines Poland Portugal Romania Russian Federation Serbia Singapore Slovakia Slovenia South Africa Spain Sri Lanka Suriname Sweden Switzerland The former Yugoslav Macedonia Tunisia Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland United States of America Uruguay Venezuela Vietnam Zambia