Lucknow, famous for its scrumptious kebabs and renowned as the city of Nawabs, Lucknow is a total delight for its visitors. People of this beautiful city always enchant visitors their differential greeting manner and etiquettes. The city is a perfect go-to place for all the foodies to explore its exquisite dishes. A storehouse of rich ancient culture and a great cluster of architectural buildings, the city delights you with its royal status. A modern, sprawling metropolitan city, Lucknow amazes the world with its seemingly endless splendors. This royal city is growing fast and so does the demand for modern goods and services among one of which is demand for Apostille services. The apostille services offered in the city have increased significantly over the past few years.
Our top-notch apostille support platform in Lucknow caters to this growing demand by providing reliable apostille services. We at SPS live by the objective to provide personalized support services to our clients. Our dedicated team at SPS Global attends to individual clients and looks for what the customer is seeking from our platform. From giving legal advice to getting an Apostille stamp and paying heed to our customers, SPS Global has created an environment where we assist our clients in everything from basic to complicate.
We at SPS offer you that alternative of a smoother path that will take you straight towards your dream job or university. The team of talented professionals at SPS works round-the-clock to ensure that the process of document verification is carried on in a smooth and appropriate manner. It is important for a person to get their documents verified and that too on time. We understand the importance of getting timely verification of your documents, therefore we work incessantly to provide timely services to our clients. Whether you wish to obtain a work visa or visa for educational purpose, SPS Global will provide you with all kind of apostille services which will grant your documents a legal status.
The high-skilled professionals at SPS Lucknow offer you efficient, fast, and reliable apostille services for your documents. We are aware of our customer's needs, therefore our efforts are directed in the right direction which enables us to achieve customer satisfaction at large. We provide our clients hassle-free services and make sure to complete the whole process of certification at the earliest. With the support of a professional team at every step of the process, we ensure to be there all the time to avoid any difficulty for the client. Our network emphasizes developing a friendly approach with our customers. Starting with an explanation of what Apostille is to finally getting the Apostille sticker - we do it all. We make sure to keep our clients informed and updated about everything related to their documents. Through our email or messaging services we provide our customers with every relevant update and inform them whenever their presence is required.
Are you also among those applying for a visa but still are confused about what attestation services are?
Here is what all you need to know about attestation services:
Attestation can be understood as a demonstration or proof of something. The proof of any document is presented in form of a seal or stamp issued by the respective authority. The attestation of any document provides that a particular document is credible and can be trusted.
The process of obtaining the necessary seal or signature from the concerned official on your certificate to verify its credibility is called certificate attestation. Certificates such as degree certificates, birth certificates, marriage certificates, medical certificates, and other types of certificates require an attestation from respective authorities to provide credibility to all your documents.
The attestation of documents is the legalization of significant documents in order to make them admissible before the authority who requests them. Document attestation is done for three categories- Personal documents like your Birth certificate, Educational documents like your Degree or Diploma, and Commercial documents like Partnership deeds.
Obtaining a certificate of attestation is necessary when applying for a foreign job visa. Additionally, it is necessary to obtain an attestation prior to applying for studies abroad or to get approvals for a business in another country.
Visas cannot be obtained without an attested certificate in most cases. For obtaining that one has to submit attested certificates. To obtain an attestation, you need to provide the authorities with your documents. The authorities verify your documents and issue their stamp or signature on respective documents that provides your documents a credible status. Document attestation will provide authenticity to your documents which then can be accepted in other countries for various purposes.
An Apostille is a French word that means Certification and it’s Pronounce as “ah-po-style”. An Apostille is simply the name for a specialized certificate, issued by the Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi. The Apostille sticker is pasted on the backside of original document to verify it is legitimate and authentic, so it will be accepted in one of the other countries who are members of The Hague Apostille Convention.
The Apostille Convention is an international treaty that simplifies the legalization procedure for foreign public documents. It allows a Government body to certify a document issued in its own country as valid for other countries without further certification by the destination state. The Convention has 126 contracting states as of November 2023, including the United States and Canada.
The Apostille Convention provides the simplified certification of public (including notarized) documents to be used in countries that have joined the convention. Documents destined for use in participating countries and their territories should be certified by one of the officials in the jurisdiction in which the document has been executed.
The Hague Convention requires that all Apostille be numbered consecutively, with individual numbers applied to each Apostille issued. The recognized standard Apostille contains a seal and 10 mandatory references: name of country from which the document emanates, name of person signing the document, the capacity in which the person signing the document has acted, in the case of unsigned documents, the name of the authority that has affixed the seal or stamp, place of certification date of certification, the authority issuing the certificate, number of certificate, seal or stamp of authority issuing certificate and signature of authority issuing certificate. Prior to the introduction of Apostille certificates the burden on international courts and authorities to judge foreign documents as authentic was quite considerable. On the October 5, 1961 the Hague Convention abolished the requirement of legalization for foreign public documents. The Convention reduces all of the formalities of legalization to the simple delivery of a certificate in a prescribed form, entitled “Apostille”, by the authorities of the Ministry where the document originates. This certificate, placed on the document, is dated, numbered and registered. The verification of its registration can be carried out without difficulty by means of a simple request for information addressed to the authority which delivered the certificate.
Apostille Process depends that if the documents are Educational, Non Educational or Commercial. Educational Certificate Apostille is required if you are going for Job or Study in any of The Hague Convention Countries. Non Educational documents like Marriage, Birth Certificate Apostille services are required for your dependents, if you want them to accompany you in that country. Commercial documents Apostille is required if you want to send shipment, open a branch in Hague country of have to do some business collaboration. We will try to explain process for you.
First step of the Process is getting the Notarization of document done. Notary can be done from anywhere in India. And it can be done from Delhi also. Doing Notary from Delhi will save some time, as documents has to come to Delhi only for Apostille.
After the Notary is done, next step in Sub Divisional Magistrate. SDM attestation is done in Delhi. It’s same for Educational and Non Educational documents. If you leave few countries, this SDM Stamping is valid in all the countries. Some countries Like, Italy, Switzerland and Austria might ask for State HRD for Educational Documents and State home Department/GAD for Non Educational documents. So, if you are planning for these countries please get complete knowledge from office HR or local bodies who are applying your case. SDM Stamping is done in 1 day and on the backside of the original Document.
Last and most important part is getting the document attested from Ministry of External affairs. After Notary and SDM Stampings are done Documents are submitted in Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi for Apostille. Just like Notary and SDM, Apostille Sticker is pasted on the back side of the document. Apostille sticker will have your name and current date. It also have unique number and contain name and designation of the person who have signed it. After Apostille sticker, the process is completed the documents are ready for use. When you receive the Apostille document, first please check that all the spellings and dates are fine. As sometimes there can be some mismatch in the spelling. If there is some spelling mistake then it has to submit in correction department. That will take another 1 day
If you are going through State Attestation Process then it might take more than a month. As for Educational documents, first stamp from University is required and then from State HRD Department. And for Non Educational Documents, First Stamp is required from Local DC office and then from State GAD/Home Department. If you go through SDM Apostille process then processing time is only 5 to 6 working. This Process takes less time and is less expensive as well.
Apostille Sticker has a validity of Six Months. Means you have to use this Apostille within 6 months, after that whole life you can stay in that country. But if you want to change the country after 6 Months then Apostille needs to done again. Don’t worry if there is no space on the backside of the document. New Apostille Sticker can be applied on the expired Sticker.
Original Documents are very important part of our Life. Sometimes it takes several months to obtain new documents. So security of documents is most important for us. You can do live tracking of the process daily. Currently document is in which city and in which department, you can check with just one click. Whenever you handover your documents to any of our office, a link is shared to you on mail. With that you can track the whole process, till documents are delivered back to you.
If you are travelling outside India to any of The Hague convention Country for Study or Work, then Apostille is required on your Educational documents. And if you are applying dependent visa for your spouse or children, then their Marriage and Birth Certificate will be required to get Apostille. Still if you have any query, you can get in touch with SPS Team @9920111362
