The certification procedure confirms the authenticity of the seals and signatures of competent officials on a document, and that they comply with the legal requirements of the country of origin.
Most often this is needed in international trade and civil law, for example when you want to:
and you need to submit a set of constituent documents to the registration authorities of that country or to that bank.
Likewise, if you want to:
you will also need translated and certified documents.
Document legalization is a complex and sometimes lengthy process, as it involves translating the document, certifying it first with the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, and only then consular processing at the embassy of the relevant country.
To make this process easier and faster, a simplified legalization procedure has been available since 1961 for countries that are parties to the Hague Convention.
The approximate process of document legalization looks as follows:
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