Apostille for Croatia

How to get an apostille on Irish and UK documents for use in Croatia?

Docsbase Consular Services with an office in Dublin Ireland and London UK is specialising in legalisation of all types of commercial, vital, government documents from Ireland and the UK for official use in Croatia. We can arrange reissuance of documents in the UK and Ireland, notarisation and apostille legalisation of Irish and UK documents as well as the Embassy legalisation in London and Dublin. We are familiar with the requirements of Croatian authorities and can prepare your documents in a way that they will be accepted by the Croatian authorities without any further legalisation. Docsbase Translation is our in-house translation department specialising in preparing certified translation of English documents into Croatian appropriately certified for use in Croatia. We also have reliable partners in Zagreb that can provide legalisation of Croatian documents for use abroad, in particular in the Republic of Ireland and the UK.

HOW TO OBTAIN AN APOSTILLE IN CROATIA?

In Croatia, an Apostille is issued by municipal courts, and if there is no agreement between the Republic of Croatia and another country in terms of the Hague Convention, then the document must be legalised/certified in the process of full legalisation at the Ministry of Justice. The Apostille is a government-issued certificate that is attached to documents so that they can be recognized in another country. An Apostille Certificate validates signatures and seals and can be applied to any official document and presented to any country that recognises the Hague Convention. The local authority receiving the document should accept the seals or signatures as true and authentic without requiring any more proof or evidence.

PRELIMINARY LEGALIZATION OF CROATIAN DOCUMENTS BEFORE APOSTILLE AUTHENTICATION

Notarisation of documents in municipal court:

–  The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as Croatian diplomatic missions and consular offices abroad, are authorised to legalise documents i.e. documents issued in the Republic of Croatia that need to be used abroad).

–  As a rule, the Municipal Court in Croatia issues Apostilles on the same or the next working day from the day of submitting the document for certification.

Some documents can be notarized as a true copy before being apostilled, by:

–  Registrars office

–  Notary public

–  Municipal Court in any region of Croatia

Original seals and signatures are required:

–  The Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs only accepts “genuine certified copies” from a notary public. A notary public cannot certify birth      certificates, marriage certificates, death certificates, divorce decrees, court documents, or federally-issued documents as “true copies.” The secretary of state must certify these documents.

–  All documentation must be original and in good condition before it can undergo further legalisation.

–  Personal delivery of documents is required, as well as the possession of an official identification document.

WHAT CROATIAN DOCUMENTS ARE MOST COMMONLY USED FOR THE APOSTILLE CERTIFICATION:

–  Birth certificate issued in Croatia

–  Croatian Death certificate

–  Croatian Wedding certificate

–  Certificate of residence in Croatia

–  Notarised copies of Croatian documents

–  Wills, court rulings, issued by Croatian Courts

–  Complaints, Lawsuit, Power of Attorneys

–  Croatian Employment documents

IRISH LEGALISATION SERVICES FOR CROATIAN CITIZENS

Docsbase Apostille and Consular Legalization Service provide authentication services for a range of Irish documents to be used in Croatia. If you have lived, worked, studied, or did business in Ireland, and have some documents that you will subsequently have to use in Croatia – our company will help you to legalise them for use back home. We can obtain duplicate copies of your documents from the local registry, companies office, Police, and Immigration authorities as well as notarise them if required before the final legalisationin the Department of Foreign affairs.