The steps required for notarisation and legalisation will depend on how your document was issued:
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An original court document, stamped or sealed by the court, or signed by an official of the court
This can be apostilled directly and notarisation isn’t required.
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An original court document, not stamped, sealed or signed by a court, or an official of the court
This must be notarised first. We will need to verify its authenticity with the Court. After it has been notarised we can submit it to the FCDO to be apostilled.
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A printout of your electronic court document produced from the original PDF or other electronic document
We will need to notarise this before we can apostille it.
We will need to verify where you logged in to download it to complete the notarisation. If the court document was emailed to you we would need to see the original email from the court.