The Degree Certificate Attestation or Apostille Degree Certificate in India is a crucial step for students and professionals planning to study or work abroad. The Apostille verifies the authenticity of your degree certificate, ensuring that authorities abroad recognize them for purposes like study or employment abroad.
What is an Apostille?
An apostille is a certification process verifying the genuineness of documents for international use. It confirms the legitimacy of signatures and seals on public records. It is a certificate applied on the back of the requested document that proves the validity of a document, signature, stamp, or seal.
Hague apostille
The apostille process follows the framework established by the Hague Convention of January 1961, effective January 1965. India joined the Hague Apostille Convention in 2005 and issued apostilles in 2007. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) in India is responsible for apostilling documents in India.
Countries not part of the Hague Convention do not recognize the electronically used Hague apostille. The apostilles authenticate public documents, simplifying the process of international document certification.
What are the advantages of the Apostille attestation service in India?
As India is a member of the Hague Convention, no further attestation or legalization of an apostilled document in India is required for use abroad.
It is now easy for individuals and businesses to meet international legal requirements by apostilling a document in India. It serves as a universally recognized seal of approval, making sure that a document issued in one country is accepted in another country without further authentication, saving time and avoiding legal headaches for those engaged in international dealings. Certificate authentication through Apostille services thus ensures global acceptance of your certificates.
The Apostille service is advantageous in cases that would otherwise require certifications by the origin and destination states. The Hague Convention has abolished the latter requirement.The Apostille only certifies the signature, signer’s capacity, and seal or stamp on the document as being from the stated issuer.It only certifies the origin of the document but does not provide any information about the content of the document.
Apostille applicability
This apostille certification is quite helpful in the following situations.
- When planning to study or work abroad
- To get married or to register a birth overseas
- To conduct an international business
- For legal proceedings in foreign courts.
How can a document attestation through Apostille be done?
The following steps must be taken for a Degree apostille.
- Obtain the original document: The first step is to obtain the original degree certificate you want to apostille.
- Get SDM/STATE Authentication: This department verifies the document against state records.
- Get Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) attestation: The MEA attests the documents at the national level by issuing an Apostille. The apostille services have been decentralized to Branch Secretariats/RPOs in 16 cities in India. Since the MEA directly receives no degree certificate or document at its counter in New Delhi, the documents are to be sent to the respective Branch Secretariats/RPOs through any of the five outsourced service providers in India for obtaining the requisite services of Apostille. The applicant will collect the apostilled document through the outsourced agencies.
What documents are eligible for Apostille services?
The documents eligible for attestation by apostilling include:
- Birth, marriage, or death certificates.
- Affidavits
- Power of Attorney
- Extracts of registers.
- Notarial attestations.
- Commercial documents.
- Personal documents.
- Educational documents like degrees, diplomas, matriculation & secondary level certificates, etc.
It is advisable to obtain the services of professional consultation agencies like Helpline Group to have your documents apostilled in India.
Helpline Group in India
Helpline Group, backed by a strong and experienced team, brings over 25 years of expertise in company formation attestation services, including Apostille, offering clients a seamless, hassle-free experience.
Our seasoned professionals possess in-depth knowledge of the latest rules and regulations, ensuring compliance and efficiency. We are committed to finishing all steps, procedures, documentation, and approval processes on time without compromising quality. Helpline Group in India, a pioneer in providing apostille accreditation services, helps applicants get their documents apostilled hassle-free.
