Legalisation services we offer
Apostille
Service
Paper based UK FCDO apostille
Digital UK FCDO e-Apostille
Irish DoFA apostille
Legalising your documents with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office here in the UK. The Apostilles Group has many years of experience in this and will provide you with all the help and support you need in order to complete this for you as soon as possible. If your document needs to be obtained, verified, certified by one of our solicitors, notarised by a Notary Public, attested further at an Embassy (for a country who isn’t a member of the Hague Convention on the Legalisation of Public Documents), translated or any combination of the above, The Apostilles Group are absolutely here for you.
The Apostilles Group can also help you getting documents notarised and apostilled, through the Department of Foreign Affairs, in Ireland too.
Verification
Service
Verification of University level qualifications
Verification of GCSE/A-Level qualifications
Verification of TEFL/CELTA/TESOL qualifications
To save you sending sensitive documents abroad and potentially getting damaged, or even lost, The Apostilles Group liaise with official channels for Universities, directly with Universities, colleges and educational institutions to verify any awards. The price for this service starts at £25. However, some requesting authorities, i.e. whoever is asking you to have your documents apostilled, will require the original documents to be apostilled and in these instances, you will need to send us the original documents.
Obtaining
Service
Obtaining ACRO Certificates
Obtaining GRO (Birth, Marriage, Death, etc.) Certificates
Obtaining some Court Documents
Obtaining certified copies of documents held at Companies House (including Certificates of Good Standing/Summary Statements)
If you no longer have, or don’t wish to send your original documents to us, The Apostilles Group can obtain new or certified copies of the above documents. There are typically Express services available for most documents. Court Documents can take a long time to get copies of so please send us a scan of your documents first and then we can assess them to see what we can do.
Creation
Service
Creating bundles of documents held at Companies House
Creating Certificates of Incumbency
The Apostilles Group gather and create bundles of documents as prescribed by you in order to carry out your legalisation requirements. When opening bank accounts abroad for UK based companies, they can be quite specific.
Appropriate solicitor certification of documents in order to obtain apostilles by UK registered and practicing solicitors.
Appropriate notarisation of documents in order to obtain apostilles by UK registered and practicing Notary Publics.
Attestation of FCDO apostilled documents at Embassies in the UK for countries that do not belong to the Hague Convention on the Legalising of Documents, such as Kuwait, UAE, Qatar, Vietnam, etc.
Translation of apostilled document into certified or sworn versions. These can then be further apostilled if necessary.
Arranging courier collections of your precious documents, thus ensuring their safe passage to us in order to carry out your necessary procedures.
Arranging courier delivery of your documents so that you can receive your documents in the best time possible.
Other standard shipping options are available.
The UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office apostille
UK
The Apostilles Group can deliver your documents back to you within the UK using Royal Mail services.
Your documents are important to us and will be returned to you in a board-backed inner envelope with a waterproof outer envelope.
£8, 3-5 WORKING DAYS
£18, NEXT BUSINESS DAY
WORLDWIDE
The Apostilles Group will deliver your documents anywhere in the world using couriers and Royal Mail Services.
Your documents are important to us and will be returned to you in a board-backed inner envelope with a waterproof outer envelope.
FROM £8, 3-60 WORKING DAYS
UNTRACKED - UNGUARANTEED
FROM £19, 5-15 WORKING DAYS
TRACKED - UNGUARANTEED
EXPRESS COURIER
FROM £45, 1-6 WORKING DAYS
TRACKED - GUARANTEED
