Step 1: Apostilling Documents

The journey towards the Colombian trail has already begun. It though has kept me shuttling between Delhi (DEL) - Bombay (BOM) quite a few times to get my educational documents attested and authenticated. So next post will be a quick guide for all those who want to get an apostille sticker on their educational documents. Next post is a step by step guide to get an apostille sticker for IIT Bombay degrees but applies equally well to other educational documents across the country (India) as well.

What is Apostille Sticker ?

(Source: Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostille_convention

The Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement for 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 of the signatory countries can be certified for legal purposes in all the other signatory states. Such a certification is called an apostille (French: certification). It is an international certification comparable to a notarisation in domestic law.

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