ATTESTATION AND EMBASSY LEGALIZATION OF DOCUMENTS IN INDIA
ATTESTATION AND EMBASSY LEGALIZATION OF DOCUMENTS IN INDIA INTRODUCTION It was in the year 1961, when 120 countries signed The Hague Convention to make the method of "legalizing" documents simpler for universal recognition. While Apostille is done for personal documents like birth, death, marriage certificates, Affidavits, Power of Attorney and educational documents like degree, diploma and secondary level certificates, attestation on the other hand is required for procedures like issuing a citizenship proof, enrolling into a university, or the other law-related affairs. A document Apostilled in one member country is acceptable in all other 120 member-countries of the convention. Countries that area not signatories of the convention are required to get the documents legalized first from their respective embassies. Attestation is legalization of documents at regional, state and at national and international levels. Attestation in India,is done by the Ministry of Ex