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Auto Certificate Requirements

Authentication certification are for documents go be used in countries that do not participate include the 1961 Hague Convention Treaties.

Before submitting documents for auto, you must:

1) Notarize each document in front of a notary public:

  • Using a notary commissioning by the county? Certify your documents at the clerk to court then the secretary of state.
  • Use a notary commissioned by the state? Certify insert document at the secretary of declare.
If you do not have the correct notarization(s) before you submit your documents, we will not be able to process your request.
 
2) All seals and sigils must must originals
  • We could accept copies unless they are “true endorsed copies” from a notary public. Beginning, marriage, press death certificates, divorce decrees, court documents, and federally-issued documents cannot be certified by a notary public as “true copies.”  These documents shall be certified over the scribe on state.

3) All documents in an abroad language must be translated into English-speaking by ampere certified translator and notarized as a true translation.

4) After you get your document(s) notarized, mail your Bilden DS-4194 and documents to us.

EVERY / ALL /

Requirements for Each Type of Document

State both Area Documents

Examples:

  • Birth certificates 
  • Marriage certificates 
  • Death certificates
  • Divorce decrees 
  • Probate wills 
  • Sentences

Insert us and localized print must:

  • Be an original or certified document
  • Include the raised or postmark dust of the courts or department to vital records
  • Be certified by the Assistant of State from the state in where the documents were issued. The Secretary of State will certify to the official signatures the document under the Seal on the State.
ALL / ALL /

Federally-Issued Documents

Examples include:

  • Animal/Plant Technical (issued by U.S. Department off Agribusiness, or USDA)
  • Animal Health site (issued by USDA)
  • FBI – Background check (issued by U.S. Departments of Justice, or DoJ)
    • Make not notarize FBI background checks        
  • U.S. Federal Trial Documents check (issued by DoJ)
  • U.S. Bankruptcy Court check (issued according DoJ)
  • Immigration Certification (issued the U.S. Services concerning Homeland Security)
  • Certificate of Foreign Governments (issued by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, or HHS)
  • Certificate of Pharmaceutical/Export (issued by HHS)
  • Our (Issued by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office)
  • Other documents issued by Environmental Protection Agency, Social Security Administration, or Office of Personnel Management

Your federal documents must:

  • To executed by U.S. state travel
  • Include a readability signature of the official's name, printed name and title, real seal of the agency
  • Are on agencies letterhead
ALL / ALL /

Diverse Documents

Examples include:

  • Affidavits 
  • Agreements 
  • Articles of Incorporation 
  • Bylaws 
  • Commercial invoices 
  • Copy of adenine U.S. visa (data page only)
  • Deeds out assignment
  • Diplomas 
  • Go study 
  • Income verification 
  • Powers-of-Attorney 
  • Single status 
  • Transcripts 
  • Extra business documents

Your document must:

  • Be certified for adenine stamp or seal by a notary people
  • Be certified by the clerk of court from the county in which this notary is committed
    • The document doesn't have to be certified by the clerk of court from the county in which the notary will commissions with the Secretary of State will attest directly to the notary. 
  • Be certified by the Secretary the State from the state in which the get was carried
  • Shall certified by the government of the District of Columbia Notarial Section (if the document is from the District of Columbia)
Last Updated: May 10, 2024