General Notarisation of documents for use abroad including but not limited to:
We can advise you on whether your document will be valid just with the notarisation or whether it also needs to be legalised at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office with an apostille. This apostille is sometimes known as the Hague Apostille. For countries that are a party to the Hague Convention documents need only be legalised with the apostille in order to be accepted. For other countries for example China the documents also require Consular legalisation in order to be accepted.
We attend to legalisation both at the Foreign Office and Consulates using standard or priority services depending on your needs. Each consulate has different requirements and different turn around times but we will keep you updated each step of the way.
We make your documents our business!
Our Notary Ana Afonso Martins can speak four languages English, Portuguese, French and Spanish and can therefore notarise documents in those languages without an English translation being required. We also provide notarised translations to and from those languages if required.
We also offer notarised translations from and into over 140 languages either on a standard or priority basis.