The city Of Lakes, blessed with amazing beaches and historically rich forts, Thane is a total delight for its visitors. There is no denying the fact that Thane offers an appropriate amalgamation of natural beauty and modern conveniences to suit everyone`s tastes. From the astonishing beauty of Naneghat Hills to the spicy and savoury cuisines, Thane offers all pleasurable experiences to its visitors. Besides becoming a metropolitan city, Thane is also becoming a centre for high-end living due to the increasing income of the people. With a stable disposable income, people increasingly are looking forward to traveling overseas for better educational and trade purposes. This eagerness to travel for better opportunities has resulted in a rise in the requirement of apostille services in the city.
SPS Global Services is a platform where you can find an answer to all of your questions about document apostille. The motto we share at SPS is to create a platform that provides the most accurate and professional apostille services to all our Clients.
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SPS Global provides you with the best legal guidance and ensures that you can get your documents apostilled in the most suitable manner. We at SPS strive round-the-clock to ensure that there are no delays in verifying documents for our clients. To ensure that our clients aren't dragged to get their apostille stamp, we have streamlined our apostille process. An apostille stamp is extremely important for anyone planning to move abroad. Whether for educational or for trade purposes, before applying for any visa the applicant has to go through abundance of legal formalities. All these formalities can be overwhelming for anybody as it consumes a large chunk of people's time. Thus, we are here to rescue and relieve our clients from getting involved in such hectic and trouble-some processes, our support platform has tremendously assisted numerous clients them in getting their document verification in an easy manner. Our value system has enabled us to think strategically at every stage to reduce the dissonance that occurs in the customer’s mind while applying for apostille attestation. At SPS Global Services Thane, we are here to help you with all your needs.
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Wondering why exactly your documents need apostille?
Here is all you need to know about the Apostille process -
An apostille is a computer-generated sticker stamp that comes in a square shape. This apostille stamp consists of 11 fields and is issued at the back of any document. An apostille Agreement, as one of the international treaties of the Hague Convention, is recognized by all member countries. Specifically, the document lays out how the legitimacy of a document issued in one of the country's signatories can be affirmed for legal purposes in the other signatory countries. The eleven fields this apostille stamp includes are:
The need for Apostille Attestation
Whenever a person applies for any kind of visa including study, commercial or resident visa it is necessary for them to get their documents verified. Apostille documents are required for each visa case, as the visa process cannot be completed without the legalization of certificate. Your documents become legally valid once they are apostille-stamped, which can be used for various purposes overseas. Getting an apostille stamp provides your document a credible status. After getting an apostille stamp a unique identification number is generated. This unique identification number helps all the member countries of the Hague Convention to verify whether your documents are legal or not. Getting an apostille is required whenever you are traveling to any country which is a part of the Hague Convention.
What all documents require an Apostille -
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
