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Albania, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Australia, Bahamas, Bahrain, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Cape Verde, Chile, China (Sonderverwaltungsgebiete Macau und Hongkong), Costa Rica, Colombia, Cyprus, Denmark, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Fiji, Georgia, Grenada, Greece, Guatemala Guyana Honduras, India, Ireland, Iceland, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea (Republic), Latvia, Lesotho, Liberia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malawi, Malta, Marshall Islands, Morocco, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Mozambique, Namibia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niue, Oman, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Russia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Saint Christopher and Nevis, Seychelles, South Africa, Spain, Suriname, Swaziland, Switzerland, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Venezuela
MCI undertakes no responsibility for the correctness and completeness of this information.
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All relevant documents issued by the countries listed above need legalization of documents in the form of an Apostille.
The Apostille is issued by competent authorities in the contracting country. The diplomatic representation of a foreign country in Austria is under no circumstances authorized to do it. A list of responsible authorities in each respective contracting country can be found on the homepage of the HCCH (Hague conference on Private International Law).
The Apostille has to be placed on the original document itself or on an allonge and certifies, thereby, the authenticity of the signature, the function of the person who has signed the document, and where appropriate, the originality of the seal or stamp on the document.
The contracting country determines which documents are considered to be public or private respectively. The Apostille only applies to public documents. In the case of private documents, they have to be certified by, for example, the responsible educational authority or a notary in order to be recognized as a public document, subsequently, the document has to be attested by the Apostille.
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