Apostille by state: fees, offices and processing times

Which state apostilles your document

The apostille comes from the state that issued your document, or from the state that commissioned the notary who signed it. Your home address and the country the document is going to make no difference. A Florida birth certificate goes to Tallahassee even if you have lived in Oregon for years.

Each office certifies only its own state's officials and notaries, so each one sends back documents from other states. Arizona's own example is a Nevada birth certificate, which has to go to the Nevada Secretary of State. Oregon's FAQ pairs a New Jersey birth certificate with a Hood River marriage record: Salem can apostille the marriage record, and New Jersey has to handle the birth certificate.

• Birth, marriage and death certificates: the state where the event was registered. See birth certificate apostilles, marriage certificates and death certificates.
• Divorce decrees and court orders: the state of the court that issued them. See divorce decree apostilles.
• Powers of attorney, affidavits and other notarized papers: the state on the notary's seal. See power of attorney apostilles.
• Diplomas and transcripts: the school's state. Connecticut, for one, says transcripts from schools in other states must be authenticated where the school is located. See diploma and transcript apostilles.
• Company documents: the state where the company was formed. A good standing certificate for a Wyoming LLC gets its apostille in Cheyenne wherever the owner lives. See corporate apostilles and our Delaware good standing guide.
• Federal records: no state at all. The U.S. Department of State handles them, as the federal route below explains.

Near a state line, read the notary's seal

The notary's commission decides the office, so people who live near a border often hold a document that belongs to the neighboring state. The state files are full of examples:

• A power of attorney notarized in Memphis goes to Tennessee, and one notarized in Texarkana, Texas goes to Texas, even when the signer lives in Arkansas.
• A paper notarized in Spokane is apostilled by Washington, and one notarized in Ontario, Oregon by Oregon, not Idaho.
• A document notarized in Moorhead belongs to Minnesota, not North Dakota.
• In Kansas City, a notarization on the Missouri side goes to Missouri and one on the Kansas side to Kansas.
• A paper signed before a notary in Plattsburgh needs a New York apostille, which means the county clerk first.
• A D.C. resident who signs before a notary in Bethesda needs a Maryland apostille, with the circuit court clerk step.

One twist runs the other way: New Jersey commissions some residents of adjoining states who work there, and their notarizations go to Trenton. And if you sign in front of our notary in Tewksbury, the apostille comes from Massachusetts, whichever state you live in.

Documents from other countries, and U.S. embassies

A document issued abroad gets its apostille in the country that issued it. The state offices say so themselves: Georgia's GSCCCA lists documents issued by a foreign country among those it cannot apostille, and Delaware and Rhode Island turn away papers from another country. The reverse holds too. U.S. embassies and consulates have no authority to apostille U.S. documents, and the U.S. Embassy in London sends people back to the Secretary of State of the state that issued the certificate.

Which office issues apostilles in each state

In most states the Secretary of State's office issues apostilles, sometimes under a different name. Seven jurisdictions use someone else: the Lieutenant Governor in Alaska, Hawaii and Utah, Georgia's Superior Court Clerks' Cooperative Authority, Delaware's Division of Corporations, New Jersey's Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services, and D.C.'s Office of Notary Commissions and Authentications.

These are the offices that do not simply carry the title Secretary of State, in the words each state uses:

A few need a note. In Georgia, the Secretary of State does not issue apostilles. It issues the Great Seal certification for countries outside the Hague Convention. Florida's Apostille Section belongs to the Division of Corporations that runs Sunbiz, and works from The Centre of Tallahassee on North Monroe Street. Pennsylvania issues its apostilles in the name of the Secretary of the Commonwealth. Vermont's come from its State Archives and Records Administration in Middlesex, except business records, which the Business Services Division in Montpelier apostilles itself.

Two more states split the work. Wisconsin's Department of Financial Institutions is a second competent authority for Hague countries, and in Louisiana the Commercial Division apostilles the business filings it holds while the Commissions Division handles the rest.

States with more than one counter

Most states run one apostille office in the capital. A few have more: California in Sacramento and Los Angeles, Illinois in Springfield and Chicago, Arizona in Phoenix and Tucson, Arkansas in Little Rock and Fayetteville, and Washington in Tumwater and Cheney. Massachusetts adds regional offices in Springfield and Fall River, New York runs five walk-in offices, and Michigan offers appointments at eight branch offices.

Only offices like these can issue an apostille. A notary cannot, and neither can a private service like ours: we prepare your document and file it with the office that has authority over it. Our Secretary of State apostille guide explains the split between state and federal offices.

Apostille fees by state: $1 to $40 per document

As published in September 2026, the standard state fee for one apostille runs from $1 in Michigan to $40 in Connecticut. The most common fee is $10, charged by 17 offices, and 38 of the 51 charge $10 or less. Several offices stress that the fee is per document, not per page.

What can add to the state fee

• Speed. Connecticut charges $90 for 24-hour service, New Jersey $40 for expedited service, Wisconsin $35 per certificate and Nevada $75 on top of its fee for 24 hours (June 2026). South Dakota adds $50 for an expedited appointment, and Washington $100 per 10 documents to expedite or $150 for same-day counter service on the first 10. Walk-in service in Arizona carries a $25 expedite fee, Colorado's expedited walk-in service costs $15 per certificate, and Utah charges $20 for a same-day document in person.
• Signatures. California adds $6 for each different official's signature on in-person requests. North Dakota adds a $5 record search for each different notary, and Nebraska charges per notarization, so a document signed before two notaries costs two fees.
• Card and online payments. Arkansas and Oklahoma add 4% on cards, Louisiana a $5 state fee, Idaho $1 per transaction and New Jersey $2.50 by card or $1 by e-check. Rhode Island adds $0.75 when you apply online.
• Clerk-certified records in Florida. A document certified by a Florida Clerk of Court costs $20 instead of $10, because Tallahassee attaches a Certificate of Incumbency.
• The county step in New York. The county clerk charges its own fee, $3 at the New York County Clerk.

Where the fee drops

• Nothing at all in Indiana for Indiana birth and death certificates, adoption documents, and transcripts and diplomas from Indiana schools.
• Less for extra documents. Virginia and West Virginia charge $10 for the first document and $5 for each additional one from the same official. Virginia also wants the same date and the same destination country.
• One fee for a batch. Delaware charges a person $30 for all the non-commercial documents presented together, while a business pays $30 per document.
• Adoption rates in Connecticut ($15), Louisiana ($10), New Jersey ($5), Oklahoma ($10), Texas ($10, capped at $100 per child), Utah ($5) and North Carolina ($5 for duplicate originals ordered together).
• A cap. Wyoming's law caps its fee at $100 for the same transaction.
• A cheaper certificate for non-Hague countries in Arkansas ($5, against $10 for an apostille) and Oklahoma ($20, against $25).

Fees also move. Kansas raised its fee to $10 on March 2, 2026, which is why every row in our table carries the month it was checked.

What a birth certificate apostille really costs

The apostille fee is rarely the biggest number. If you need a new certified copy, the vital records office charges its own fee first: in 2026, $15 in Tennessee, $20 in person at the Massachusetts Registry and $22 from Texas Vital Statistics. Postage or a courier in both directions comes on top, and a translation if the destination asks for one.

With us, the price does not change with the state. Economy is $149.95 and Express $199.95 per document with the state fee included, so a $1 Michigan apostille and a $40 Connecticut one cost you the same. FBI reports are $199.95, and Massachusetts and New Hampshire documents can go same-day for $385.95. A new certified copy is paid to the office that issues it. Sending several documents? Ask us about a volume discount. See our birth certificate apostille page and the full pricing and process.

Apostille processing times by state

Published processing times run from the same business day to about four weeks. Delaware usually finishes mailed requests the day they arrive, while New Jersey's standard service takes 12 to 20 business days. No mail turnaround is published by 16 offices, and none of these figures include mail in either direction.

Quickest by mail, as published in September 2026

• Delaware: mailed requests usually the same business day.
• Arkansas: 24 to 48 hours on most requests.
• Alaska: typically processed and mailed back within 48 hours of arrival.
• West Virginia: the office aims to finish within 48 business hours.
• Georgia and Indiana: 1 to 2 business days.
• South Dakota: within 2 business days of receipt.
• Utah: 1 to 3 business days after arrival.
• Ohio and Louisiana: 2 to 3 days after receipt.
• Kentucky and North Dakota: within 3 business days.

Slowest by mail

• New Jersey: 12 to 20 business days on standard service.
• Arizona: 10 to 20 business days.
• Maine and North Carolina: 10 to 15 business days.
• Wisconsin: about 7 to 20 days on standard service.
• Maryland: 7 to 14 business days by regular mail, about 3 to 4 days by FedEx, UPS or USPS Priority.
• Hawaii, Virginia and Washington: 7 to 10 business days, with no expedited option in Hawaii.
• Massachusetts: 2 to 3 weeks by mail.
• Michigan: 1 to 2 weeks, with no expedited option, and courier envelopes are not processed any faster.

No published turnaround

These offices publish no standard turnaround for mailed requests: Alabama, Illinois (June 2026), Iowa, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada (June 2026), New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont and Wyoming. Several of them, New York, Tennessee and New Hampshire among them, still finish walk-ins the same day. California and Oregon take a different approach and post their queues online: on September 28, 2026, Sacramento was working on mail received September 14, and Salem on requests received September 21.

Ways to go faster

• Pay to expedite where it exists. New Jersey finishes expedited requests within 8.5 business hours, Washington within 2 to 3 business days and Wisconsin within 2 to 4.
• Deliver by hand where it helps. North Carolina says mailed documents take about five business days longer than hand-delivered ones.
• Pay for a courier only where it counts. Maryland turns FedEx, UPS and Priority Mail requests around faster, while Michigan says courier and Priority envelopes are not processed any faster than regular mail.

With us, Express takes 1 to 5 business days in most states and Economy 1 to 3 weeks. In 15 states where the office's own queue sets the pace, including Arizona, New Jersey, North Carolina and Virginia, we give you a realistic date at the free review, before you pay. For Massachusetts and New Hampshire documents, our same-day rush costs $385.95 with a guaranteed 24-hour turnaround. Our guide to how long an apostille takes covers every stage.

Walk-in counters, appointment-only offices and mail-only states

Walk-in counters at 16 offices usually finish requests while you wait, from Tallahassee to Albany. Eight offices see in-person customers by appointment only, and six have no while-you-wait counter at all, so documents arrive by mail, courier or drop box. A few more sell faster counter service for an extra fee.

The details matter as much as the category. Texas takes walk-ins only on Mondays and Fridays, with appointments from Tuesday to Thursday. Massachusetts finishes up to three documents the same day at its Boston counter, New York up to 10, and Tennessee serves you the same day only if you arrive by 2:00 PM Central. D.C.'s walk-in window runs from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM. Virginia sends couriers and apostille companies, us included, to its drop box, which takes 5 to 7 business days.

You do not need an office nearby to use any of them. Most of our clients never visit a counter: they mail documents to our office in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, or drop them off in person, Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Eastern. Our page on apostille service near you explains the options.

Online ordering and electronic apostilles

Three states now issue electronic apostilles: Connecticut since July 6, 2026, Utah since July 9, 2026 and Kentucky through its e-apostille portal, and Washington began a digital pilot in 2024. Several other states take the order and payment online, but the original paper still has to reach the office by mail or in person.

Electronic apostilles

• Connecticut has taken orders only through its online application since September 2025, and since July 6, 2026 it has issued e-Apostilles for eligible documents, within 24 hours. Vital records still get a paper apostille.
• Utah has issued digital apostilles since July 9, 2026, which recipients can check on its e-Register. Since September 3, 2026, a mailed request must be entered in the ApostilleXpress portal first. Birth and death certificates from Utah Vital Records get paper only.
• Kentucky takes a PDF notarized by an authorized Kentucky Online Notary Public through its e-apostille portal, with no county clerk step, and emails the apostille back as a PDF. Vital records are excluded.
• Washington launched an e-apostille pilot in February 2024 and issued its first digital apostille in June 2024, on a diploma.

Arizona says it does not issue electronic apostilles, and Colorado has no online apostille service. Before you choose an electronic apostille anywhere, ask the office receiving your document whether it accepts one.

Order online, send paper

New Jersey requires the order and payment online before the original arrives, with the printed confirmation in the envelope. New Mexico requires the request to be filed online at enterprise.sos.nm.gov, through a system launched on July 24, 2023. Hawaii, Nebraska and Rhode Island let you file the request online and then send the original, Iowa takes electronic requests through its Fast Track Filing System, and Wisconsin's portal can cancel orders whose documents have not arrived within 60 days. Washington, D.C. asks mail-in customers to file an online notification form before posting anything.

Checking an apostille online

An office abroad can verify a certificate online in Arkansas, Colorado (for certificates since April 5, 2011), Idaho, New York (for apostilles issued after April 9, 2013), Rhode Island and West Virginia, and an electronic one on Connecticut's portal or Utah's e-Register.

Remote and electronic notarizations

Delaware, Virginia and Wisconsin refuse documents notarized remotely or electronically, so a power of attorney signed on a video call has to be signed again in ink. Texas accepts a remote online notarization that comes with the notary's ledger entry, but warns that some countries refuse such documents even after the apostille.

States that need a county or court clerk before the apostille

In five states a notarized document stops at a clerk before the state will apostille it. New York, Kentucky and Tennessee send it to the county clerk, Maryland to the Clerk of the Circuit Court and Hawaii to the circuit court. Without that certification, the state office has no signature on its list to certify.

• What skips the clerk. Maryland's vital records go straight to Annapolis, and so do Tennessee certificates signed by the State Registrar and New York certificates issued by the State Department of Health.
• Kentucky's electronic shortcut. A PDF notarized by an authorized Kentucky Online Notary Public goes through the e-apostille portal with no county clerk step.
• The notary's county, not yours. The right clerk sits in the county where the notary is registered or commissioned, which may not be where you signed. Maryland's circuit courts are a good example: a Montgomery County notary is certified in Montgomery County, wherever the signing took place.

Narrower steps in other states

Indiana wants a marriage license certified by the current circuit court clerk of the county where the marriage took place. Michigan refuses copies certified by court or probate clerks: it wants the county clerk's certified copy, or a true copy statement signed before a Michigan notary. Alabama adds a county authentication from the probate judge, but only for notarized documents going to countries outside the Hague Convention.

States that say no clerk step is needed

Georgia says its county certification of a notary is not used in conjunction with an apostille, and New Jersey lists no county step for notarized documents. Oklahoma apostilles an original notarized document with no county certification in between, and Arizona certifies court clerks directly. Our guides for New York and Maryland walk through the two most common clerk steps.

Birth, marriage and death certificates: which copy each state accepts

Every state wants a certified copy, never a photocopy, but states disagree about who may sign it. Massachusetts, Maine and Texas accept city, town or county copies. Rhode Island only apostilles certificates from its state vital records office, and New Hampshire wants the certified copy notarized as well.

• State copies only, or strongly preferred. Rhode Island refuses city and town copies. New Jersey points to the state Office of Vital Statistics and Registry for records from 1923 on. South Carolina takes birth and death certificates only from Vital Records, and New Mexico only from the State Registrar.
• Local copies accepted. Massachusetts and Connecticut take town clerk copies, Maine municipal copies, Vermont any town clerk's copy of a birth or death from 1909 on, and Texas city, county or state copies. Wisconsin's 72 Registers of Deeds, Minnesota's 87 county offices and South Dakota's Registers of Deeds can issue records from across their states.
• Only certain signatures. California apostilles birth and death certificates signed by a county clerk, a county recorder, their deputies or the State Registrar, not a local registrar. Michigan wants the county clerk, a city clerk in Wayne, Oakland or Macomb County, or the State Registrar. Pennsylvania wants the State Registrar on death certificates, and Ohio certifies only the office holder's own signature, not a deputy's.
• The current registrar. Alabama and Kentucky apostille vital records only when they carry the current State Registrar's signature, so an older copy has to be replaced.
• A local copy plus a clerk. In New York, a local registrar's copy goes to the county clerk first, and New York City birth and death records need the long form with a Letter of Exemplification.
• Never notarize a vital record. Indiana asks applicants not to, Virginia refuses certificates that have been notarized, and Florida, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, South Dakota and Texas bar notaries from certifying copies of them. New Hampshire is the exception, with its notarized original copies.

Marriage records often sit with a county or a court rather than the state: the county clerk in Illinois and Texas, the probate court in Georgia and Ohio, the county recorder in Nevada, the register of wills or orphans' court in Pennsylvania and the Superior Court in D.C. Each state guide names the right office.

Health departments that pass the certificate along

Some vital records offices will send a new certificate straight to the apostille office, which saves a round of mail: Maine, Montana, North Dakota, Tennessee, Washington and Wisconsin all offer a version of this, and Oregon lets a VitalChek order ship directly to Salem. Alabama, Alaska and Michigan go further and sell a vital record with the apostille already attached, for $25, $42 and $42. The trade-off is time: Michigan quoted 12 to 16 weeks for its apostilled copies in September 2026. If you are assembling several generations of records, our citizenship by descent guide lists the usual set, and our marriage certificate apostille page covers what registries abroad ask for.

State rules on how recent a document must be

An apostille never expires, but some state offices will only apostille a document certified or notarized within a set period. Virginia asks for the past 12 months, Oklahoma the past year for court copies, Texas five years for certified records and Connecticut ten years. These are filing rules, separate from anything the office abroad asks for.

• Virginia: notarizations, vital records, circuit court copies and State Corporation Commission documents dated within the past 12 months.
• Oklahoma: marriage licenses, divorce decrees and other court-certified documents dated within the past year.
• Texas: certified records issued within the past five years, counted from the issue date on the copy.
• Connecticut: notarized or certified within the last 10 years.
• Michigan: birth and marriage records produced within 15 years, according to the Great Seal's instruction sheets.
• North Carolina: agency documents certified on or after April 1, 2000.
• Hawaii: vital records issued before January 1, 2025 have to be reordered.
• Georgia: recommends a new certified copy for anything issued before 2000.

The fix is almost always a fresh certified copy or a new notarization, and the event itself can be decades old. None of these rules comes from the country receiving your document. That office may want a recently issued document too, and each one sets its own rule, so confirm it with the consulate, court or lawyer handling your file before you order. Our guide to whether apostilles expire explains the difference.

Notarized copies of passports and IDs, state by state

In most states, a properly notarized copy of a passport, driver's license, green card or Social Security card can be apostilled by the state where the notary is commissioned, because the apostille certifies the notary. Mississippi, Maryland, Ohio, Michigan and New Hampshire each restrict some ID copies, so check the notary's state first.

Where the rules are tighter

• Mississippi. A notary who does not work for the issuing agency cannot certify a copy of a passport, driver's license or Social Security card. A copy properly notarized in a state whose rules allow it can be apostilled by that state instead.
• Maryland. Naturalization and immigration documents cannot be notarized, as originals or copies, so a notarized green card copy is refused. Passport and driver's license copies go through the circuit court and Annapolis as usual.
• Ohio. The request form rejects originals or photocopies of records from the Departments of Justice, Treasury, Homeland Security and Health and Human Services, which rules out a notarized green card copy. A passport or driver's license copy is fine.
• Michigan. Notaries cannot certify that a copy is true, so the person named signs a true copy statement in front of a Michigan notary instead, and the Great Seal refuses immigration and naturalization paperwork.
• New Hampshire. The office lists passports, along with FBI checks and naturalization papers, among the federal documents it cannot apostille. Ask us before relying on a notarized passport copy there.

How other states want the copy made

Connecticut wants a sworn statement that the copy is true, signed before a Connecticut notary. North Carolina uses a true copy affidavit, and Texas the owner's signed statement with a full notarial certificate. Washington requires even a driver's license photocopy to be properly notarized, and New York and Tennessee send the notarized copy to the county clerk before the state. Washington, D.C., Missouri and Pennsylvania name green cards among the ID copies they accept.

None of this applies to federal records. A notarized copy of an FBI report, a naturalization certificate, a DD-214, an IRS or Social Security letter or a USCIS notice cannot be apostilled by any state. See passport copy apostilles for the ID route.

Federal records: the U.S. Department of State, not a state office

Records signed by a federal official skip every office in the table. An FBI background check, a naturalization certificate, a DD-214, an IRS or Social Security letter and a USCIS notice are apostilled only by the U.S. Department of State's Office of Authentications in Washington, D.C., for $20 per document, and a notarized copy of one cannot be apostilled.

The rule works in both directions. Kansas points out that the U.S. Department of State will not issue an apostille for a state-issued document, so a Kansas birth certificate goes through Topeka even for someone who lives next door to Washington. And where your fingerprints were taken changes nothing: an FBI result based on prints taken in Chicago, New Orleans or Las Vegas is still a federal record.

Federal or state?

• Federal: FBI Identity History Summaries, naturalization certificates and certificates of citizenship, DD-214s, IRS and Social Security letters and USCIS notices. Virginia sends documents signed by military notaries to the U.S. Department of State, Wisconsin refuses them as well, and Indiana says federal court papers first need a preliminary authentication by the Justice Management Division.
• State: state criminal record checks, such as a Massachusetts certified CORI, a New York criminal history record from the Division of Criminal Justice Services, a D.C. police clearance or a South Carolina SLED check. Each has its own route in its state, and some need a notarized official's signature first. Kentucky says it cannot apostille background checks from its Administrative Office of the Courts directly. See how to apostille a Massachusetts CORI.

FBI background checks

Request your Identity History Summary directly from the FBI, through its electronic departmental order at edo.cjis.gov. Fingerprints on an FD-1164 card are taken by local police or a fingerprinting service, and U.S. embassies generally do not take fingerprints for this purpose. The result carries an FBI official's signature, which is why the U.S. Department of State apostilles it. Our FBI report apostille costs $199.95 with the federal fee included, takes 2 to 6 weeks and is fully remote: you email us the electronic result. Our guide on how to get an FBI background check covers the request itself.

Other federal records have their own pages: Social Security letters and immigration documents.

What each state issues for countries outside the Hague Convention

An apostille only works in the 129 countries where the Hague Apostille Convention is in force. For the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Egypt and other non-members, the state's certificate is only the first step: the U.S. Department of State usually authenticates it, and the destination's embassy or consulate then legalizes it.

One certificate for every destination

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Oregon, Texas and Wyoming use a single certificate whatever the country. Colorado has done so since April 2, 2018, Wyoming since its Universal Certificate took effect on September 10, 2021, and Connecticut since July 21, 2025. For a Hague country that certificate is the apostille. For anywhere else, the embassy step still follows.

A separate certificate, under many names

Massachusetts issues a Certificate of Appointment, New Mexico a certificate of appointment, Michigan and Missouri a certificate of authority and Florida a notarial certificate. Virginia issues a Great Seal authentication, and in Georgia the certificate comes from the Secretary of State as a Great Seal certification, not from the GSCCCA. Washington, D.C. issues a Foreign Certificate, or a Department Head Certificate that serves both kinds of country. Most other states call theirs a certificate of authentication or a certification, and two price it differently: Arkansas charges $5 against $10 for an apostille, and Oklahoma $20 against $25.

Name the destination on your request, since that is how the office knows which certificate to attach. Membership changes, too: China, Canada and Viet Nam now take apostilles, and Thailand only from February 28, 2027. Check the HCCH status table or our Hague apostille country list, and see legalization for non-Hague countries and apostille vs authentication vs legalization.

Puerto Rico, Guam and the other U.S. territories

An apostille is for use abroad, and U.S. territories are not abroad. California, Colorado, Indiana, Texas, Vermont, Virginia and Wisconsin say they will not issue one for Puerto Rico or the other territories, and D.C. declines requests for Guam and Puerto Rico. Arizona issues a notarial capacity certificate for $18 instead.

Filing it yourself, or sending it to us

For one correct document and a counter nearby, filing it yourself is often the cheapest route, since 38 of the 51 offices charge $10 or less. A service earns its fee when documents come from several states, need a clerk step or a new certified copy, or must reach another country by a fixed date.

Before you mail anything to a state office

1. Check the version. A certified copy with an original signature, or a notarization with a complete certificate. A photocopy fails everywhere.
2. Add any step that comes first. The county or court clerk in five states, and a notarized English translation for a foreign-language document in Alabama, Delaware and South Carolina.
3. Name the destination country on the request. It decides which certificate you get.
4. Pay the way the office accepts. Florida takes only checks and money orders, Colorado and Vermont take no cards, Ohio wants the exact amount and no cash, Oklahoma refuses personal checks by mail, and the Los Angeles and Harrisburg counters take no cash.
5. Send a return envelope the office can use. Arizona, Tennessee and Virginia want your own name as both sender and recipient on a courier label. Idaho cannot mail documents out of the country, South Dakota never uses DHL, and Pennsylvania does not return documents by FedEx or DHL.

What we do instead

Every order starts with a free document review. We confirm which office has authority over each document, arrange any clerk step, prepare each office's own request form and payment, and file everything under one order, even when the documents come from three different states. You follow it in our online tracker, and the finished documents come back by the courier you choose. Certified translation in more than 100 languages and notary service at our Tewksbury office are there when a document needs them.

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