In most cases, people who go abroad for education, permanent residence, marriage or employment, employment, have to face the need to legalize documents.
Are all documents subject to legalization?
No, not all! There are a number of documents that cannot be used for legalization. (In most cases, these are documents with a photo). These include: passports, identity cards, employment records, driver's licenses, union tickets, military tickets, pension books, specifications, weapons permits, technical passports for the car.
Legalization of a document is the process of performing a number of certain procedures to give a document legal force in another country. In fact, it is a confirmation of the authenticity of this document by the highest state bodies. That is, legalization is necessary for a document issued in Ukraine to be valid in another country, and vice versa.
In essence, during the legalization, the authority, authenticity of the signature, seal or stamp of the official who issued the document is confirmed.
The legalization process can be carried out with civil status documents (documents from the registry office: birth certificate, marriage, divorce, change of surname or name, etc.), insurance, certificates, powers of attorney, court decisions, as well as materials on civil , family and criminal cases, with documents on education (diploma, certificate, extract, program, etc.), with documents of legal entities (certificate from the tax inspection, certificate of registration of a sole proprietorship, certificate of ownership, certificate of registration of a trademark , certificate of payment of the single tax, etc.), but not with documents directly related to economic, commercial, financial or customs actions.
Do all countries need legalization of documents of Ukrainian origin?
No, there are a number of countries for which it is not necessary to legalize documents from Ukraine, they include:In fact, there are two ways of legalization of documents, namely consular legalization (for countries which have not signed the Hague Convention of 5 October 1961) and apostylizatsiya (ie Apostille stamp affixing to the participating countries above mentioned Convention).
КОНСУЛЬСЬКА ЛЕГАЛІЗАЦІЯ проводиться на документи в країни, які не є учасницями Гаазької конвенції, тому спрощена схема легалізації шляхом проставлення апостиля для них не діє. Тому для цих країн використовується старий спосіб легалізації - через консульство.
При цьому розрізняють так зване «одне» коло або ж «подвійної» легалізації (залежно від вимог країни, в яку подаються документи).
У першому випадку проводяться наступні дії:
У другому випадку проводяться наступні дії:
Існує список країн, які вимагають консульську легалізацію, серед них:
Канада, Чилі, Уругвай, Коста-Ріка, більшість африканських і азіатських країн (арабських) Алжир, Кувейт, Саудівська Аравія, ОАЕ, Катар, Лівія, Китай (крім Макао і Гонконг), Шрі-Ланка, Ірак, Єгипет, Палестина і т.д.
Щоб ми змогли легалізувати для Вас документ необхідно надати нам: