However, a passport alone is not enough to travel to a foreign country. You may need to apply for a visa before you can enter the country. Different types of passports are issued by the HM Passport Office, depending on the status of the holder. The office also issues electronic or biometric passports containing an embedded microchip that makes them machine-readable. You must have your passport apostilled and legalized before submitting it for work or business visa applications or other legal matters abroad. The legalisation of your documents confirms that the signature, seal or stamp affixed to the document in question is from a British official and is genuine. We offer a British passport legalization service. The apostille is always attached to a certified photocopy of a British passport. This may be requested to confirm that you are a UK citizen or for identification purposes. The apostille is issued on a photocopy of the passport, leaving the original intact.

The Passapostille process includes the following steps: Legalisations.org.uk has years of experience in carrying out the legalization process for retail and corporate clients for a wide range of documents that can be used in any other country in the world. We take care of the entire process for you, so you don`t have to visit government or consular offices in person. Our team of experts not only checks the format of the documents to be legalized, but also has them notarized or certified by our in-house lawyer. We will then submit the documents to the FCO office in Milton Keynes for the apostille. If necessary, we will also submit the apostilled documents to the respective embassy for consular certification. We ensure the secure return of all your documents by mail once the passport legalization process is complete. However, we ask that you send us an email in advance with the scanned copies of the documents to avoid any confusion or misunderstanding. We also recommend that you check whether the country where you wish to present the passport is part of the 1961 Hague Apostille Convention.

This is important because countries that are not members of this treaty need an additional step of consular legalization of documents. Another embassy certificate from your passport is usually required if you are using the document in a country that is not a party to the Hague Convention. We can help with most embassies in London. Please contact one of the teams for current pricing and processing times. You can use certain documents from the United Kingdom (UK) immediately in the Netherlands. Others must first be legalized by the British authorities with an (E-)apostille. This is a simplified form of legalisation that allows you to use your documents in the Netherlands. UK Official Records offers an apostille service to help you obtain official British Apostille certificates for UK documents. The apostille certificate is usually requested by foreign authorities and organisations so that the document can be used for official purposes outside the UK. It is also known as legalization. This means that documents must be properly legalized before travel and often within a certain period of time.

Civil status certificates must be certified by an apostille. This also applies to official copies or extracts from civil status. The following documents do not need to be legalised for use in the Netherlands. Passports must be legalized and issued with the apostille in the country where they were issued. Whenever possible, you should get an apostille in the right country. We can add a UK apostille to a copy of a non-UK passport if this has already been certified by a UK lawyer or notary. We cannot provide the lawyer`s certificate for passports outside the UK. If you choose to add a British apostille to a foreign passport, you accept the risk that it will be rejected if presented abroad. Legalisations.org.uk offers the full range of services to legalize your passport and other documents.

You can contact us by email at info@legalisations.org.uk or call us on 0845 224 9482 to legalize all your passport documents. Our experienced team knows the whole process and can help you complete it smoothly.