APOSTILLE ATTESTATION

India, since 2005, is a member of the Hague Convention that abolished the requirement of legalization of foreign public documents. Apostille is acceptable in 105 member-countries of the Convention . Apostille is done for personal documents like birth/death/marriage certificates, Affidavits, Power of Attorney, etc. and educational documents like degree, diploma, matriculation and secondary level certificates etc. Any document Apostilled in one member country is acceptable in all the other 104 member-countries, signatory to the referred convention of 1961 thus greatly simplifying the process of attestation by making it needless to get the documents attested in each or for each of the countries separately.

List of Apostille Countries

• Albania
• Andorra
• Argentina
• Armenia
• Australia
• Austria
• Azerbaijan
• Belarus
• Belgium
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Bulgaria
• China, People's Republic of
• Costa Rica
• Croatia
• Cyprus
• Czech Republic
• Denmark
• Ecuador
• Estonia
• Finland
• France
• Georgia
• Germany
• Greece
• Hungary
• Iceland
• India
• Ireland
• Israel
• Italy
• Japan
• Korea, Republic of
• Latvia
• Lithuania
• Luxembourg
• Malta
• Mauritius
• Mexico
• Monaco
• Montenegro
• Netherlands
• New Zealand
• Norway
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Poland
• Portugal
• Romania
• Russian Federation
• Serbia
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• South Africa
• Spain
• Suriname
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
• Turkey
• Ukraine
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• United States of America
• Uruguay
• Venezuela
• States
• Antigua and Barbuda
• Bahamas
• Bahrain
• Barbados
• Belize
• Botswana
• Brunei Darussalam
• Burundi
• Cape Verde
• Colombia
• Cook Islands
• Dominica
• Dominican Republic
• El Salvador
• Fiji
• Grenada
• Honduras
• Kazakhstan
• Kosovo
• Kyrgyzstan
• Lesotho
• Liberia
• Liechtenstein
• Malawi
• Marshall Islands
• Mongolia
• Namibia
• Nicaragua
• Niue
• Oman
• Republic of Moldova
• Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Saint Lucia
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• Samoa
• San Marino
• Sao Tome and Principe
• Seychelles
• Swaziland
• Tajikistan
• Tonga
• Trinidad and Tobago
• Uzbekistan
• Vanuatu