The Tender For Law

Volume 11

Aug 05, 2015 12:38 AM

Chris Evan

What is the significance of this? Apostille in general.

Apostille Convention - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents, the Apostille Convention, or the Apostille Treaty is an international treaty drafted by the Hague Conference on Private International Law. It specifies the modalities through which a document issued in one�

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Anibal Jose Baez

An Appostille gives full faith and credit of documents from one jurisdiction, to be valid in an other. For example for an AFFIRMATION from a notary in PR to be valid in Canada, I would have to go to the State Department and get those documents APPOSTILLE so they may be accepted in the other jurisdiction. It seems to be some international commercial treaty.