Translation Agency July Morning

We will represent your interests in the Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Main and Region Board for Justice in Kyiv region, in the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Health, in consular departments of the foreign embassies in Kyiv with regard to issues of legalization and inserting Apostille in standard documents filed by natural persons and statutory and banking statements filed by legal entities.
Official documents issued in Ukraine may be valid in the territory of another country in conformity with its regulatory/legal and legislation requirements only if they are duly legalized or authenticated.
To legalize a document means to corroborate authenticity of an official, his/her position and stamp of the authorized state agencies so that this document could be used in the other country.
There are two ways of legalizing documents in Ukraine: Apostille and consular certification..

Apostilleis the stamp on official documents issued by state agencies of countries signatories of the 1961 Hague Convention that corroborate authenticity of the official and that of the stamp in the document.
Ukraine joined the Hague Convention on 22 December 2003. In accordance with its provisions the requirement of diplomatic or consular certification for official documents sent in one of the signatory countries is abolished. Documents intended for use in the territory of the Hague Convention countries undergo simplified certification procedure, i.e. are attested by Apostille stamp that can be inserted by any authorized Ukrainian agency.
In accordance with the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers Resolution #61 dated 18 January 2003 all powers of inserting Apostille in Ukraine are granted to:
- Ukrainian Ministry of Justice: in the documents issued by Ukrainian law-enforcement agencies, Office of Public Prosecutor or courts as well as in the documents attested by public and private notaries.
- Ukrainian Ministry of Education and Science: in the official documents issued by educational facilities, state agencies, enterprises and organizations in the field of education and science.
- Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: in the official documents issued by the Ukrainian internal affairs agencies, archives, in medical certificates if these documents bear official seal of the oblast health department and on other official documents.
There are a number of documents where Apostille cannot be inserted.
These are:

• Documents issued by Ukrainian diplomatic agencies located abroad;
• Administration documents directly related to commercial or customs activities;
• Original copies of official documents issued by agencies of other former Soviet Union countries;
• Original copies, duplicates and photocopies of passports, military IDs, work record cards, identity cards, driver’s licenses, letters of reference, vehicle registration certificates, weapon permits, trade union certificates, estate or religious denomination licenses, regulatory and legal documents, explanatory notes and legal conclusions on their applicability as well as any kinds of correspondence.

List of countries signatories to the Hague convention of 1961 abolishing the requirement of legalization for foreign public documents (Apostille)

Australia Austria Albania Andorra Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Bahamas Barbados Belize Belgium* Belarus Bulgaria Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brunei Venezuela Grenada Greece Denmark Dominical Republic El Salvador Estonia Israel Ireland Spain Italy Kazakhstan

China, Hong Kong China, Macao Cyprus Columbia Latvia Lesotho Lithuania Liberia Lichtenstein Luxemburg Mauritius Macedonia Malawi Malta Marshall Islands Mexico Monaco Namibia Netherlands Niue New Zealand Norway South African Republic Portugal Russian Federation Romania Samoa

San Marina Panama Swaziland Seychelles Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Serbia and Montenegro Slovakia Slovenia United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland United States of America Suriname Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Turkey Hungary Ukraine Germany* Fiji Finland France Croatia Check Republic Switzerland Sweden Japan

* — the current documents registration procedures are applied

Consular legalization of official documents is used to certify the authenticity of signature affixed by the official who has signed the document, validity of stamps and seals on official documents issued in the territory of Ukraine for their further use in the territory of other states who are not signatories of the Hague Convention (the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Brazil, Libya, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Germany etc).
Such documents ought to be legalized in the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Foreign Affaires and subsequently attested in the Consular departments of embassies of the countries for which they are intended.