Apostille attestation is a form of legalizing your documents with a stamp that allows one to use the documents in any of the Hague member countries. An apostille on your documents authenticates the document and helps foreign authorities to verify it. More than that, you only require to do a single time apostille attestation on your documents to travel to any of the member countries of Hague Convention.    

As per the Hague convention in 1961, all the member countries will issue and recognize apostille for international legalization of documents. That is an apostille document is valid in all Hague convention member countries.

In India, an apostille attestation is issued by the Ministry of External Affairs [MEA]. Apostille attestation is done for personal and educational documents. The certificate attestation procedure to travel to Hague convention member country is:

State attestation: The first and foremost procedure for getting an MEA Apostille is to attest your documents from the state where the document was issued. Based on the document type, you can do either HRD attestation for educational documents, Notary attestation /home attestation for personal attestation and Chamber of commerce attestation for commercial documents.

MEA Apostille Attestation: After attesting the document from the respective states, you need to do the apostille attestation from the Ministry of External Affairs.

Embassy attestation is not mandatory if you are doing the MEA Apostille attestation. However, you have to do embassy attestation on certain documents for travelling to certain Hague member countries. For more insights on MEA related attestation services, please visit the following link…

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