Yes, a Certificate of Residency will need to be notarized by a Canadian Notary Public before it can be apostilled. To have your Certificate of Residency notarized, you will need the notary public to put their signature and seal on your document, along their statement of execution.

If you have verified with the recipient in the destination country and the embassy or consulate in Canada that they will accept a notarized copy of the document, you can have a certified true copy made for processing. Otherwise, you should notarize directly on the original certificate.

For further clarification about this process, contact our expert staff.