Legalization by route

Choose the destination country. The grouping below reflects the current country pages: apostille route versus full legalisation. Always check the receiving authority's requirements.

Apostille

These countries are listed on the apostille route:

• Albania
• Algeria
• Andorra
• Antigua and Barbuda
• Argentina
• Armenia
• Australia
• Austria
• Azerbaijan
• Bahamas
• Bahrain
• Barbados
• Belarus
• Belgium
• Belize
• Bermuda
• Bolivia
• Bonaire
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Botswana
• Brazil
• Brunei
• Bulgaria
• Burundi
• Canada
• Cape Verde
• Chile
• China
• Colombia
• Cook Islands
• Costa Rica
• Croatia
• Curacao
• Cyprus
• Czech Republic
• Denmark
• Dominica
• Dominican Republic
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Estonia
• Eswatini (Swaziland)
• Fiji
• Finland
• France
• French Guyana
• Georgia
• Germany
• Greece
• Grenada
• Guam
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Honduras
• Hong Kong
• Hungary
• Iceland
• India
• Indonesia
• Ireland
• Israel
• Italy
• Jamaica
• Japan
• Kazachstan
• Kosovo
• Kyrgyzstan
• Latvia
• Legalisatie Polen
• Lesotho
• Liberia
• Liechtenstein
• Lithuania
• Luxembourg
• Macau
• Malawi
• Malta
• Mauritius
• Mexico
• Moldavia
• Monaco
• Mongolia
• Montenegro
• Morocco
• Namibia
• New Zealand
• Nicaragua
• Niue
• North Macedonia
• Norway
• Oman
• Palau
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Philippines
• Portugal
• Puerto Rico
• Romania
• Russia
• Rwanda
• Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Saint Lucia
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• Samoa
• San Marino
• Sao Tome and Principe
• Saudi Arabia
• Senegal
• Serbia
• Seychelles
• Singapore
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• South Africa
• South Korea
• Spain
• Suriname
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• Tajikistan.
• Tonga
• Trinidad and Tobago
• Tunesia
• Turkey
• Ukraine
• United Kingdom
• United States of America
• Uruguay
• Uzbekistan
• Vanuatu
• Vatican City
• Venezuela
• Vietnam.

Full legalisation / embassy or consulate route

Kiribati is listed here because it is not listed as a Contracting Party in the current HCCH Apostille Convention status table.

Bangladesh, Pakistan and Thailand remain in this full-legalisation group; no country-page changes were made for them.

• Afghanistan
• Angola
• Bangladesh
• Benin
• Bhutan
• Burkina Faso
• Cambodia
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Comoros
• Congo Brazzaville (R. Congo)
• Congo Kinshasa (D. R. Congo)
• Cuba
• Djibouti
• Egypt
• Equatorial Guinea
• Eritrea
• Ethiopia
• Gabon
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Guinea Bissau
• Haiti
• Iran
• Iraq
• Ivory Coast
• Jordan
• Kenya
• Kiribati
• Kuwait
• Laos
• Lebanon
• legalization Cameroon
• Libya
• Madagaskar
• Malaysia
• Mali
• Mauritania
• Mozambique
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Nigeria
• Pakistan
• Palestine
• Papua New Guinea
• Qatar
• Sierra Leone
• South Sudan
• Sri Lanka
• Sudan
• Syria
• Taiwan
• Tanzania
• Thailand
• Togo
• Turkmenistan
• Uganda
• United Arab Emirates
• Yemen
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

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