France Apostille Apostille Services

You can pay for our services by PayPal, bank transfer or credit card. In France, Apostilles are issued by every Court of Appeals’s Prosecution service, following a very strict procedure to check the compliance of documents. Consular legalization applies to countries, that have not signed the Hague Convention of 1961 , which implemented a law about the procedure of apostille (a lot of European countries are member states of this convention).
Légalisation apostille : On est souvent amené à présenter des documents dans d’autres pays auprès de différents organisme comme une entreprise, une école ou une autorité. Ces pays exigent des garanties quant à l’authenticité et la conformité de ces documents.

L’authentification des signatures et des tampons passe obligatoirement par :
– Apostille : une formalité nommée apostille (dans le cas des pays faisant partie de la convention de la Haye).
– Légalisation : une autre procédure auprès du ministre des affaires étrangères et ensuite auprès des services consulaires des ambassades des pays destinataires des documents.
– Légalisation Apostille : une dispense de toute démarche de légalisation apostille.

LEGAL OFFICE permet aux entreprises de déléguer l’ensemble des démarches nécessaires à la légalisation apostille des documents auprès des organismes officiaux : Ambassade et Consulat, Cour d’Appel, Chambre de Commerce (CCI), Ministère des Affaires Etrangères (MAE), Notaire.
Schmidt & Schmidt offers the legalization of public documents from France by apostille. We take charge of all formalities with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as well as consulates Légalisation Afrique du Sud and embassies. The Hague Convention is a permanent organisation set up after the Second World War with the objective of simplifying international administrative procedures.

Documents that require a sworn translation must be apostilled or legalised beforehand, so the expert translator may translate all the fields that the apostille of legalisation reads. In these countries, no legalization of documents from France is required. On average, processing the documents takes 14 days.
Courier services are charged and invoiced separately according to the courier service’s rates. We are a registered service provider with the Secretary of State – Authentications, Apostilles, and Certificates. Once this procedure is complete, the document is legalised and valid in the recipient country.

Legalization of documents through the Chamber of Commerce is carried out in relation to commercial documents (contracts, invoices etc). France is a member of the Hague Apostille Convention and any official document destined for this country requires an apostille from the Secretary of State’s office.
Documents that require a sworn translation must be apostilled or legalised beforehand, so the expert translator may translate all the fields that the apostille of legalisation reads. In these countries, no legalization of documents from France is required. On average, processing the documents takes 14 days.

The apostille can be exclusively issued for the original document. Then, the recipient country legalises documents through a procedure that complies with the laws of the foreign country, with fees to pay and specific forms to fill. Therefore, there is no diplomatic authentication or consular legalization of public documents from France is required for the legal communication with other member states of the Convention.
Courier services are charged and invoiced separately according to the courier service’s rates. We are a registered service provider with the Secretary of State – Authentications, Apostilles, and Certificates. Once this procedure is complete, the document is legalised and valid in the recipient country.
France is a member of the Hague Apostille Convention and any official document destined for this country requires an apostille from the Secretary of State. The countries that are not members of the Hague Convention demand that documents be legalised through a more complex procedure.

It is first the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that controls the documents and their validity. We provide fast document authentication services through all 50 U.S. States, the Secretary of D.C., and the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. It gathers more than 180 countries and independent jurisdictions that help simplify the procedures to declare documents as law-complying by affixing a simple Apostille.
Documents that require a sworn translation must be apostilled or legalised beforehand, so the expert translator may translate all the fields that the apostille of legalisation reads. In these countries, no legalization of documents from France is required. On average, processing the documents takes 14 days.

The apostille can be exclusively issued for the original document. Then, the recipient country legalises documents through a procedure that complies with the laws of the foreign country, with fees to pay and specific forms to fill. Therefore, there is no diplomatic authentication or consular legalization of public documents from France is required for the legal communication with other member states of the Convention.