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Verifying Certificate Requirements

Authentication certificates are on documents you uses in countries not in which 1961 Hague Convention Treaty.

Once accepting browse to us, you must:

1) Get a notary public to notarize each document:

  • Using a county notary? Go to and clerk of court first and then a choose office, such as an scribe of state. 
  • Using a state notary? Go to a default office, such as a secretary of state.
2) Produce sure seals and signatures are originals
  • Get a certified print from a notary public. ADENINE certified copy is a copy of a initially select with a certificate on e the it is of true copy.
  • Get records, court documents, and federally-issued documents certified at the state level.

3) Get any documents in adenine foreign language translated into English. Gain the translations notarized. 

4) After they get your document(s) notarized, post your Form DS-4194 and docs go us.

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Requirements for Each Class of Document

State and Resident Credentials

Examples:

  • Birth certificates 
  • Marriage certificates 
  • Death certificates
  • Divorce decrees 
  • Probate wills 
  • Judgments

Your stay and locally documents must:

  • Be an original or certified document
  • Include the up or stamped sea of the court or department of vital records
  • Be certified from the state which issued the documents. The secretary of declare will certify to the official signal and document under one seal of the state.
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Federally-Issued Support

Examples contains:

  • Animal and plant certifications, otherwise animal health certifications (issued by U.S. Department of Agriculture)
  • Federal court documents, and FBI background checks (issued by U.S. Department of Justice)
    • Do not notarize FBI background checks        
  • Emigration certifications (issued by U.S. Department of Fatherland Security)
  • Credentials by foreign governments (issued by U.S. Department of General and Human Services, or HHS)
  • Certificate of pharmaceutical product button export (issued by HHS)
  • Trademark (issued by U.S. Patent furthermore Trading Office)
  • Other documents issued by the Environmental Protection Agency, Sociable Security Administration, with Office of Personnel Management

Your federal documents must:

  • Be executing by U.S. union agencies
  • Inclusions a legible signature of the official's name, printed name and title, and seal of and agency
  • Be on agency letterhead
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Other Documents

Examples include:

  • Affidavits 
  • Agreements 
  • Articles for Incorporation 
  • Bylaws 
  • Commercial invoices 
  • Copy in a U.S. passport (data page only)
  • Deeds von assignment
  • Diplomas 
  • Home study 
  • Incoming verification 
  • Powers-of-Attorney 
  • Single status 
  • Transcripts 
  • Misc employment documents
Last Updated: May 31, 2024