This video gives you a comprehensive information about “Apostille” that is attestation on your Personal, Academic/Educational, Commercial and other documents by the Ministry of External Affairs, India.
The Apostille is mandatory for every documents, whether Personal, Educational, Commercial or others, to be accepted at global level for your respective matters.
The Apostille authenticates your documents and validate internationally. It also opens the window for check or cross check by the concerned authority in another Hague Convention Country.
Hague Convention abolished the requirement for legalizing your Foreign Public Documents by way of Apostille Convention/Apostille Treaty drafted by the Hague Conference on Private International Law.
The Apostille certifies your documents, after verification of the public seal and stamp issued by the concerned department, by attesting with a sticker and stamp on it to be accepted in another Hague Convention Country.
As of October, 2021, 121 Countries are contracting countries of the Apostille Convention. Which are:-
Albania, Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Bolivia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burundi, Cape Verde, Chile, China Colombia, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Salvador, Estonia, Eswatini, Fiji, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lesotho, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malawi, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niue, North Macedonia, Norway, Oman, Palau, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Serbia, Seychelles, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu and Venezuela.
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