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Hague Apostille Member Countries

Apostille Countries list

The following 113 countries are members of the Hague Apostille Convention and will require an Apostille from the Secretary of the State or the US Department of State in Washington, DC.

AlbaniaGreeceOman
AndorraGrenadaPanama
Antigua and BarbudaHondurasParaguay
ArgentinaHong KongPeru
ArmeniaHungaryPoland
AustraliaIcelandPortugal
AustriaIndiaRomania
AzerbaijanIrelandRussia
BahamasIsraelSaint Kitts and Nevis
BahrainItalySaint Lucia
BarbadosJapanSaint Vincent and the Grenadines
BelarusKosovoSamoa
BelgiumKazakhstanSan Marino
BelizeKyrgyzstanSao Tome and Principe
Bosnia and HerzegovinaLatviaSerbia
BotswanaLesothoSeychelles
BrazilLiberiaSlovakia
BruneiLiechtensteinSlovenia
BulgariaLithuaniaSouth Africa
BurundiLuxembourgSouth Korea
Cape VerdeMacauSpain
ChileMacedoniaSuriname
ColombiaMalawiSwaziland
Cook IslandsMaltaSweden
Costa RicaMarshall IslandsSwitzerland
CroatiaMauritiusTajikistan
CyprusMexicoTonga
Czech RepublicMoldovaTrinidad and Tobago
DenmarkMonacoTurkey
DominicaMongoliaUkraine
Dominican RepublicMontenegroUnited Kingdom
EcuadorMoroccoUnited States
El SalvadorNamibiaUruguay
EstoniaNetherlandsUzbekistan
FijiNew ZealandVanuatu
FinlandNicaraguaVenezuela
FranceNiue
GeorgiaNorway
Germany

The following countries are not members of the Apostille Convention and any document requested by these countries will receive a certification. Please note that some of the countries listed below may require additional legalization by a Consulate or Embassy office.

Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Burma Myanmar, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Congo Republic, Congo Democratic, Ivory Coast, Cuba, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Haiti, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Libya, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar Burma, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Qatar, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Taiwan, Tanzania, Togo, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, UAE (United Arab Emirates), Uganda, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

More information can be found on the Hague Conference on Private International Law Apostille Section.

This list was last revised on August 2016.
Note: Guatemala will join the Hague Apostille convention on September 18, 2017