California Apostille

Apostille is a form of authentication issued for documents that will be used in countries that participate in the Hague Convention of 1961. California Apostille is only used to authenticate documents in California that will be used in another country.

An Apostille may take the form of a stamp upon a document or it may be attached to the document as an allonge (a French word describing an attachment to a legal document). If an allonge is used, it is important that it NEVER be detached from the original document, to which it may be stapled, glued, or otherwise firmly attached.

If you live in California and looking for California Apostille, you will have to call usapostille or any other California apostille services agency to obtain an apostlle in Los Angeles.

For the convenience of our California customers in need of apostille services, US Apostille has a branch office in California, located right next door to the offices of the California Secretary of State in Los Angeles.

The Convention only applies to public documents. Foreign nations have various rules governing which documents are public and which are not, but the following documents are generally eligible for Apostilles:

1- Court documents

2-Administrative documents (e.g. civil status documents)

3-Notarial acts

4-corporate documents such as company by-laws and articles of incorporation

5-power of attorney

6-diplomas, transcripts and letters relating to degrees

7-official certificates which are placed on documents signed by persons in their private capacity, such as official certificates recording the registration of a document or the fact that it was in existence on a certain date and official and notarial authentications of signatures.

US Apostille is a government facilitating agency that assists individuals and corporations obtain apostilles in the shortest possible time by expediting the governmental process.  Most states provide apostilles in a timely manner. However, Washington DC, New York, and California require longer processing times due to heavy commerce.

US Apostille has a major national network of document certification centers located in these key metropolitan cities (in the vicinity of the Secretary of the State) to aid individuals and corporations in time pressure situations where they must have an apostille, or state certification based on next day service.

address is: 453 South Spring Street, Suite 734, Los Angeles, CA 90013

website: http://www.usapostille.com/