You can also contact a notary in the state where the documents were issued for further advice. If you are applying for legal residency in Mexico from your home country, the Mexican consulate will generally not require documents from your home country, such as marriage certificates, bank statements, etc., to be notarized or apostilled (“notarized” in Canada) in order to accept them. Price: 710 pesos Mexicanos per apostille for federal documents. Some court proceedings, usually related to immigration, residency applications, investment, or marriage (or a combination thereof), may require the submission of foreign legal documents to Mexican authorities (or Mexican consulates abroad) as part of the application process. The objective of the Hague Apostille Convention is to create a simplified method of “legalizing” documents for universal recognition. An apostille certifies the official who signed your documents (example: civil servant, district clerk, notary, Supreme Court, etc.) However, if your documents were not issued in your home country (for example, if you got married abroad) or if you are applying for legal residence in Mexico from a third country instead of your home country, the Mexican consulate will ask for the apostille of the most important documents. For documents issued or legalized by a Mexican authority to be valid in Canada, they must be legalized by the Canadian Embassy or Consulate in Mexico. For more information, please call 01-800-706-29-00. For documents issued by the states of the Mexican Republic, the first certification is issued by the local government authority (Secretaría de Gobierno) and then proceeds to requirements 2, 3, 4 and 5. An apostille is a specific type of legal certification (under the International Convention) issued by a government body authorized to certify documents issued in that country for legal purposes abroad. You must contact the government department responsible for apostilles in the country where the documents were issued to have the documents apostilled. In some countries, there are online services that do this for a fee. If you arrive in Mexico, you will need to take your valuable documents with you.

Thanks to the Hague Convention of 5. In October 1961, the legalization of documents by the respective diplomatic or consular services was abolished. Birth and marriage certificates are crucial to personal identity. These documents can be essential for finding rental space and registering with the local government for incentives. In case of death, the death certificate issued in a foreign country is only valid if the document is apostilled. The key documents that someone must have with them are: Apostille for government documents There are 32 competent authorities designated to issue apostilles for government documents; For more information, see “Contact Information” below. When sending your documents, remember to send the money order in Canadian dollars and include a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Some documents issued abroad must be notarized by your home country before submitting them to legal proceedings in Mexico All other documents, such as bank statements, investment statements, must first be notarized and then sent to the apostille.

For documents issued in other countries to be valid in Mexico, they must be legalized by the Mexican consulate responsible for the region where they were issued or certified with an “apostille” by the central authority of the country where they were issued. (The apostille is a legalization issued under the Hague Convention on Exemption from the Legalization Requirement and applies to countries that are signatories to this international treaty.) If you have official documents. e.g. Birth certificates and marriage certificates that are from Mexico and must be apostilled for official use outside of Mexico can be found here for more information on the notarization of Mexican documents. However, before a document can be legalized by our consulate, it must be certified by the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, which stamps it. For more information, please contact the Department of Authentication and Submission of Documents at 125 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0G2, Tel. (613) 995-0119. All official documents issued in English or French must be accompanied by an official translation into Spanish. It is important to apostille the selected founding documents to clarify entry into Mexico as far as investors are concerned.

Most applications for residency in Mexico begin with a Mexican consulate. Some documents may need to be “apostilled”. If you go to the application centre – most often an immigration office or registration office in Mexico or a Mexican consulate abroad – without certain types of properly apostilled documents if necessary, your application will be refused and you will be asked to return with duly certified documents. Official documents issued by governments (e.g. birth certificates, marriage certificates, death certificates) can be apostilled (or certified in Canada) directly by the government of the country in which they were issued.