Apostille
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A marginal note on a letter or other paper; an
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India, since 2005, is a member of the [Hague] Convention of [October 5], 1961, that abolished the requirement of legalization of foreign public documents. Apostille is acceptable in 105 member-countries of the Convention. Apostille is done for personal documents like birth/death/marriage certificates, Affidavits, Power of Attorney, etc. and educational documents like degree, diploma, [matriculation] and secondary level certificates, etc. Any document Apostilled in one member country is acceptable in all the other 104 member-countries, a signatory to the referred convention of 1961 thus greatly simplifying the process of [attestation] by making it needless to get the documents attested in each or for each of the countries separately. Know More...
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A legal certification that makes a document from one country valid in another (provided that both are signatories to the 1961 Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement for Legalization for Foreign Public Documents)
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an official certifcate from a government that makes a document from one country acceptable in another, or the system of using such certificates:
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