When traveling or working abroad, you might be required to provide an apostilled birth certificate. What this means is that before your Canadian birth certificate will be accepted in this foreign country, it first needs to go through a process called “document apostille”.
As one of Canada’s leading document apostille companies, the team from International Documents Canada has some important information for you here about how birth certificate apostille in Canada works.
Birth Certificate Apostille
To obtain birth certificate apostille in Canada, you will need to submit the birth certificate to the correct apostille office. You’ll need to provide the apostille office with an original long-form birth certificate (wallet-sized ones aren’t accepted) that’s been issued by a Provincial or Territorial Vital Statistics Office. Be sure to check with the apostille office in advance to ensure you follow their directions and include everything that is required.
Once you have the apostilled birth certificate, it is ready to use in any apostille signatory country. If the destination country where you will use the birth certificate is not a signatory to the Hague Apostille Convention, then the certificate will still need the final step of document legalization.
Birth Certificate Legalization
Since your birth certificate is destined for a non-apostille country, after it has been apostilled, the last step is to have the birth certificate legalized by the specific embassy or consulate of the destination country. Once the embassy or consulate staff confirm that your birth certificate meets all requirements and has already been apostilled, they will place a stamp or sticker directly on it, confirming that it has been legalized and will be officially accepted in that country.
The Benefits of Using an Apostille Service
There are a number of benefits to working with a Canadian apostille service like International Documents Canada. The first is that we are experts in the specific requirements set by the apostille offices and by each diplomatic mission. Often, these offices can change their requirements and fees frequently and without notice.
Contact us for birth certificate apostille in Canada
If you need to have your birth certificate apostilled or legalized, we can help. And if you need to obtain the correct type of birth certificate, we can do this for you as well! Contact us today online or call 1 (888) 433-1011.
