Multi Travel Visas: Legalisation of foreign certificates

Legalisation of foreign documents to use in the UK and Schengen area.

If you have a foreign document, such as non-UK marriage or birth certificate, it is often has to be legalised to be accepted by Schengen Embassies when you are applying for a visa. Many of our clients have already encountered this problem. Some Schengen embassies seem to be quite strict on this, they even require for the English-language documents to be legalised, such as South African, Indian, Jamaican, Zimbabwean and other certificates including ones from the Commonwealth countries. This may be and usually is required regardless of whether UK immigration authorities accepted your foreign certificate in the past.

Here is how we can help with legalisation. There are 2 ways of legalising your foreign document - depending on what a particular Schengen embassy requires.

1) STAMP FROM A RESPECTIVE EMBASSY (simple legalisation) . Some Embassies, such as French one, require a document to be stamped by a respective Embassy in the UK. For example, a Russian marriage certificate has to be stamped by Russian Embassy in London. Or a Jamaican certificate has to be stamped by Jamaican embassy in London and so on. We can take your document to most of Embassies in London and get it stamped. For example, Russian, Jamaican, Thai Embassies etc. The same procedure applies to translation of the documents, which are originally in a foreign language.

Our price for legalisation: £30 plus Embassies legalisation fees.

Often requested South African and Indian Embassies do NOT stamp the documents, however, South African, Indian, Turkish and Albanian certificates are usually accepted by French embassy as they are.

2) APOSTILLE UNDER HAGUE CONVENTION 1961 (official legalisation). Required by certain Schengen and other Embassies, for example, Spanish one.

We can offer to obtain an Apostille at British Foreign Office, however, a foreign document in question has to be stamped by its country's Embassy first. For example, a Jamaican marriage certificate has to be first stamped by Jamaican Embassy in London and then UK Foreign Office would affix an Apostille stamp.

We are registered with the Foreign Office in London to use their SAME-DAY Apostille services. Cost: £37 our service fee plus £67 Foreign Office fee.

CONTACT US (we speak English, Spanish and Russian): info@multitravelvisas.co.uk . Phone or text if phones are busy: 07795471483 and 056 026 76627 (landline).