Schmidt & Schmidt offers the legalization of documents from Mauritius by apostille.
Mauritius has joined the Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalization for Foreign Public Documents in the year 1965. Therefore no diplomatic authentication or legalization of documents from Mauritius is required for the legal communication with another member state of the convention. The documents only need to be stamped with an "apostille" by the issuing state's authorities in order to be valid in the state of destination.
Responsible for issuing the apostille is the Ministry of Domestic Affairs.
In the case of filing documents on behalf of companies and agencies, a cover letter should be attached to them.
In the case of filing documents from a third party, it is necessary to present an identity card of both the submitter and the holder of the documents.
Documents issued by the authorities of Mauritius and other authorized Mauritian structures, or certified by local notaries, published in English or French can be apostilled.
In the course of legalization, employees of the Office of the Prime Minister verify the origin and authenticity of the document. After passing through this procedure, a special stamp (an apostille) is affixed to the document (or to its certified copy). As a rule, the apostille is placed on the back of the document, or on a separate sheet, after which the document is stitched.
An apostille is a stamp of rectangular shape. The heading "Apostille (Convention de La Haye du 5 octobre 1961)" must be in French.
The following documents can be authenticated by apostille:
- Certificates of civil status (certificates of birth, death, marriage and divorce)
- Education documents (school reports, certificates, diplomas)
- Trade register excerpts
- Judicial decisions
- Notarially certified copies of documents
- Notarially certified translations
- Further notarial documents (authorizations, last will, declarations)
- Commercial documents legalized by a state organ of registration (articles of incorporation, registration certificates, tax registrations etc.)
Requirements for the documents:
An apostille can be issued exclusively on an original document. Therefor, the latter must be in an apparent good condition, all stamps and signatures have to be clear and readable. Furthermore, it must not contain alien marking and labels.
Additional services
In addition to the legalization of your documents, we can provide you with high quality translations.
If you want to bring company information before the court, it needs to be legalised as well. We are therefore offering extracts from the commercial register of Mauritius including apostille and translation.
Usually, processing the documents takes us 14 days.
