Legalisation for Schengen

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. For example, French Embassy requires it in a sutiation, for example, where an Indian couple are applying for a Schengen visa. One spouse would have a UK work visa (Tier 1 or 2) while the other would have a dependant visa. In such cases a spouse on a dependant visa would need a marraige certificate. Indian, South African, British, US certificates are OK. However, certificates from Russia or China and many other countries need to be stamped by an Embassy - or with a stamp called Apostille. Many of our clients have already encountered this problem. 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:

1) STAMP FROM A RESPECTIVE EMBASSY (simple legalisation) . French Embassy requires a document, such as a foreign marriage certificate, 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.

Some embassies can legalise a copy or a translation and not the original, which is acceptable for French visas.

Our price for legalisation: £60 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 Embassy.

We can offer this service as we are registered with the UK Foreign Office. However, an Apostille stamp is going on the translation (or a copy) of the document (not on the original). Such legalisation is also accepted by Schengen Embassies.

CONTACT US (we speak English, Russian and Hindi): info@multitravelvisas.co.uk , 020 7977 1468 or 07795471483 or text. Office address: Multi Travel Visas Ltd, 4 Royal Mint Court, London, EC3N 4HJ. Nearest tube station Tower Hill, DKR station Tower Gateway.