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Documents that do NOT require Certification

List of documents that do not require Solicitor/Notary Public certification

Please note, only the originals will be accepted by the Foreign Office

Personal Documents that require certification

True Copies or Originals

Please note, ACCA certificates will need to be processed on the original

Commercial Documents that require certification

List of commercial documents that will require Solicitor Certification/Notary Public

Please note, documents such as Board Resolutions and Power of Attorneys, must be original for embassy legalisation

Documents issued from UK Crown Dependencies and UK Overseas territories:
UK Crown Dependencies (Documents issued from UK Crown Dependencies and UK Overseas territories: UK Crown Dependencies (CD) includes Isle of Man, Guernsey and Jersey UK Overseas territories (OT) includes Anguilla, Bermuda​, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands (BVI), Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, St Helena and Dependencies, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands and Turks and Caicos Islands.

If your document is from one of the UK Crown Dependencies or British Overseas territories mentioned above, we will notarise your document by a UK Notary Public, which will incur an additional fee. The Hague Convention extends to Crown Dependencies (CD) and Overseas Territories (OT). Each CD or OT can issue their own apostilles. Documents with apostilles affixed from UK Crown Dependencies or Overseas Territories will still require a UK FCDO Apostille stamp to be accepted for embassy legalisation.