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LEGALIZATION OF OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS

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Consular legalization of official documents - a procedure to confirm the validity of originals of official documents or proof of valid signatures of officials authorized to certify signatures on documents, but actually prints stamps, seals, which approved the document.

Legalization of documents - giving legal force of documents issued in the territory of the foreign state. These documents must be notarized on the premises of their issue, translated into Ukrainian or Russian accent and legalized in the Consulate of Ukraine, if the international treaties to which Ukraine takes part, provide otherwise.

Consul legalizes the documents and acts, drawn up with the participation of the authorities of the consular district, or documents that originate from these rule.

The bodies of Ukraine shall take such documents and acts for consideration as soon as the presence of consular legalization, unless otherwise provided by the laws of Ukraine or international agreement, the participants of which Ukraine is an empire, and stay.

Consular legalization is to establish the validity of the signature and bearing witness, authority official who signed the document or act of either making sure the previous signature on them, actually imprint stamp printed samples of which were obtained consul official route of the competent authorities of the receiving State.

Legalization of a document in the prescribed manner grants him the privilege to exist in international circulation.

Legalization will not be subject to:

  • documents and acts which contradict the legislation of Ukraine or in its meaning may harm the interests of Ukraine or contain information that humiliate honor and advantage of citizens;

  • originals, copies and photocopies of passports, military tickets, work books, documents that have character correspondence, permits to carry weapons, evidence of registration of vehicles (technical passports), driver's license, identity card, regulations and explanations regarding their use ;

  • documents issued by the authorities of further officials exceeding their authority.

When submitting official documents for consular legalization:

  • physical countenance serving the document that certifies the identity of further application to perform consular legalization;

  • legal face serves letter of appeal to the commission of consular legalization;

  • in the case of an application by the representative of physical or legal proxy countenance served any other document that reinforces the powers of the representative.

Requirements to the semi-official documents that are accepted for legalization

Officious act - a written acknowledgment of the facts and events that have legal meaning, or with which the legislation connects occurrence, change or termination of rights and obligations of natural or legal persons.

The documents set out in pairs or more separate sheets must be bound, but the sheets are numbered and sealed by the signature and seal.

The procedure of legalization of official documents in Ukraine

Department of Consular Service of the MFA of Ukraine and the Delegation of the MFA of Ukraine take on legalization of official documents drawn up and certified in Ukraine by state domination and local authorities is further intended for use abroad.

On consular legalization received the following documents:

  • Originals: certificates of registration of civil status acts; certificates from the organs of civil registration; documents about the education - Diplomas and transcripts of credit information (international standard), certificates of specialized training in medicine, the candidate and Ph.D. degrees; archival information, which are issued by archival departments of the Government Committee on Archives of Ukraine and departmental archives;

  • other official documents after notarization of copies and registration by the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine.

The documents listed in another paragraph, can be taken on the legalization of the copy certified by a notary regulations, in the case of the previous legalization of their originals.

Department of Consular Service of the MFA of Ukraine seems to accept legalization:

  • official documents, in addition to the documents of a commercial nature, compiled and certified in foreign countries by public authorities, which are authorized to reinforce their reality and are intended for use in Ukraine, provided that they attest to the country of origin Foreign Act and its diplomatic mission in Ukraine in the established order;

  • official documents drawn up additional certification directly to the diplomatic representations of foreign countries in Ukraine;

  • official documents drawn up additionally certified by the competent authorities of the states with which Ukraine has bilateral (multilateral) agreements on legal assistance, which include the denial of legalization of official documents, for use in third countries, provided that they attest to the diplomatic missions of these countries in Ukraine.

Documents issued by the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, accepted for legalization by the Department of Consular Service of the MFA of Ukraine. In this case, the official face of the Department of Consular Service of the MFA of Ukraine confirms the signature of the authorized official of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine face.

The procedure of legalization of official documents abroad

Foreign diplomatic institutions of Ukraine to accept the legalization of official documents drawn up further attested to the empire of stay or the consular district government authorities, whose competence shall take hold of consular legalization procedures for their use in Ukraine.

Do not subject to consular legalization of official documents drawn up in addition certified in Ukraine and which have not been pre-certification by the Department of Consular Service of the MFA of Ukraine.

Attention! I do not need legalization of documents, which were issued in the Republic of Albania, the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, the Republic of Bulgaria, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, North Korea, Republic of Cuba, Mongolia, the Republic of Poland, Romania, the Slovak Republic, the Republic of Hungary, countries that formed on the territory of the former Yugoslavia, the Czech Republic, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Estonia, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Armenia, Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Georgia, Republic of Moldova, Republic of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, the Republic of Azerbaijan other countries with which Ukraine signed the relevant agreements.

Specialists of the law firm "Elite Consulting" will relieve you of all the bureaucratic difficulties and in a short time to carry out the legalization of documents necessary for you.